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HebrewH6051Noun (Masculine)

עָנָן

a.nan

79Occurrences
H6051Strong's #
Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

a cloud (as covering the sky), i.e. the nimbus or thunder-cloud

from H6049 (עָנַן);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
  1. cloud, cloudy, cloud-mass 1a) cloud-mass (of theophanic cloud) 1b) cloud Aramaic equivalent: a.nan (*עֲנָן *"cloud" H6050)

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

H:N-M

Full Description

H:N-M

Occurrences

עָנָן appears 79 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Exodus
19
Numbers
15
Ezk
11
Job
6
Deuteronomy
4
Psalms
4
Genesis
3
1 Kings
2

Key Passages

1 Kings 8:10BSB

And when the priests came out of the Holy Place, the cloud filled the house of the LORD

Exodus 19:16BSB

On the third day, when morning came, there was thunder and lightning. A thick cloud was upon the mountain, and a very loud blast of the ram’s horn went out, so that all the people in the camp trembled.

Ezk 10:4BSB

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Jeremiah 4:13BSB

Behold, he advances like the clouds,his chariots like the whirlwind.His horses are swifter than eagles.Woe to us, for we are ruined!

Numbers 10:12BSB

and the Israelites set out from the Wilderness of Sinai, traveling from place to place until the cloud settled in the Wilderness of Paran.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.