אָנַשׁ
a.nash
“be incurable”
Definition
to be frail, feeble, or (figuratively) melancholy
a primitive root;
- to be weak, sick, frail 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to be incurable 1a2) to be sick 1a3) desperate, incurable, desperately wicked, woeful, very sick (pass participle) (metaph.) 1b) (Niphal) to be sick
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Grammar & Morphology
Verb
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Occurrences
אָנַשׁ appears 9 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
After Nathan had gone home, the LORD struck the child that Uriah’s wife had borne to David, and he became ill.
though on the day you plantyou make them grow,and on that morningyou help your seed sprout—yet the harvest will vanishon the day of disease and incurable pain.
Why is my pain unending,and my wound incurable,refusing to be healed?You have indeed become like a mirage to me—water that is not there.
The heart is deceitful above all thingsand beyond cure.Who can understand it?
But I have not run away from being Your shepherd;I have not desired the day of despair.You know that the utterance of my lipswas spoken in Your presence.
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