עָנָה
a.nah
“be occupied”
Definition
to depress literally or figuratively, transitive or intransitive (in various applications, as follows)
a primitive root (possibly rather identical with H6030 (עָנָה) through the idea of looking down or browbeating);
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logos (G3056)
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Occurrences
עָנָה appears 69 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
Because of this, I will humble David’s descendants—but not forever.’”
then the man who lay with her must pay the young woman’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she must become his wife because he has violated her. He must not divorce her as long as he lives.
Then the LORD said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.
The lords of the Philistines went to her and said, “Entice him and find out the source of his great strength and how we can overpower him to tie him up and subdue him. Then each one of us will give you eleven hundred shekels of silver.”
It will be a Sabbath of complete rest for you, and you shall humble yourselves. From the evening of the ninth day of the month until the following evening you are to keep your Sabbath.”
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