Limitless Word
עָנָהʻânâh/aw-naw'/
HebrewH603184 occurrences (KJV)

to depress literally or figuratively, transitive or intransitive (in various applications, as follows)

KJV renders it: abase self, afflict(-ion, self), answer (by mistake for H6030 (עָנָה)), chasten self, deal hardly with, defile, exercise, force, gentleness, humble (self), hurt, ravish, sing (by mistake for H6030 (עָנָה)), speak (by mistake for H6030 (עָנָה)), submit self, weaken, [idiom] in any wise.

Where it appears(showing the first 80 of 84)

  • Gen 15:13He said to Abram, “Know for sure that your offspring will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.
  • Gen 16:6But Abram said to Sarai, “Behold, your maid is in your hand. Do to her whatever is good in your eyes.” Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her face.
  • Gen 16:9Yahweh’s angel said to her, “Return to your mistress, and submit yourself under her hands.”
  • Gen 31:50If you afflict my daughters, or if you take wives besides my daughters, no man is with us; behold, God is witness between me and you.”
  • Gen 34:2Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her. He took her, lay with her, and humbled her.
  • Exod 1:11Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses.
  • Exod 1:12But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out. They were grieved because of the children of Israel.
  • Exod 10:3Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, “This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.
  • Exod 22:22“You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.
  • Exod 22:23If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry;
  • Exod 32:18He said, “It isn’t the voice of those who shout for victory. It is not the voice of those who cry for being overcome; but the noise of those who sing that I hear.”
  • Lev 16:29“It shall be a statute to you forever: in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls, and shall do no kind of work, the native-born, or the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you:
  • Lev 16:31It is a Sabbath of solemn rest to you, and you shall afflict your souls. It is a statute forever.
  • Lev 23:27“However on the tenth day of this seventh month is the day of atonement: it shall be a holy convocation to you, and you shall afflict yourselves; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
  • Lev 23:29For whoever it is who shall not deny himself in that same day; shall be cut off from his people.
  • Lev 23:32It shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for you, and you shall deny yourselves. In the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening to evening, you shall keep your Sabbath.”
  • Num 24:24But ships shall come from the coast of Kittim. They shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber. He also shall come to destruction.”
  • Num 29:7“‘On the tenth day of this seventh month you shall have a holy convocation. You shall afflict your souls. You shall do no kind of work;
  • Num 30:13Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.
  • Deut 8:2You shall remember all the way which Yahweh your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not.
  • Deut 8:3He humbled you, and allowed you to be hungry, and fed you with manna, which you didn’t know, neither did your fathers know; that he might teach you that man does not live by bread only, but man lives by every word that proceeds out of Yahweh’s mouth.
  • Deut 8:16who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers didn’t know; that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end:
  • Deut 21:14It shall be, if you have no delight in her, then you shall let her go where she desires; but you shall not sell her at all for money. You shall not deal with her as a slave, because you have humbled her.
  • Deut 22:24then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones; the lady, because she didn’t cry, being in the city; and the man, because he has humbled his neighbor’s wife. So you shall remove the evil from among you.
  • Deut 22:29then the man who lay with her shall give to the lady’s father fifty shekels of silver. She shall be his wife, because he has humbled her. He may not put her away all his days.
  • Deut 26:6The Egyptians mistreated us, afflicted us, and imposed hard labor on us.
  • Judg 16:5The lords of the Philistines came up to her, and said to her, “Entice him, and see in which his great strength lies, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him; and we will each give you eleven hundred pieces of silver.”
  • Judg 16:6Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me where your great strength lies, and what you might be bound to afflict you.”
  • Judg 16:19She made him sleep on her knees; and she called for a man, and shaved off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him.
  • Judg 19:24Behold, here is my virgin daughter and his concubine. I will bring them out now. Humble them, and do with them what seems good to you; but to this man don’t do any such folly.”
  • Judg 20:5The men of Gibeah rose against me, and surrounded the house by night. They intended to kill me, and they raped my concubine, and she is dead.
  • 2 Sam 7:10I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place, and be moved no more. The children of wickedness will not afflict them any more, as at the first,
  • 2 Sam 13:12She answered him, “No, my brother, do not force me! For no such thing ought to be done in Israel. Don’t you do this folly.
  • 2 Sam 13:14However he would not listen to her voice; but being stronger than she, he forced her, and lay with her.
  • 2 Sam 13:22Absalom spoke to Amnon neither good nor bad; for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had forced his sister Tamar.
  • 2 Sam 13:32Jonadab, the son of Shimeah, David’s brother, answered, “Don’t let my lord suppose that they have killed all the young men the king’s sons; for Amnon only is dead; for by the appointment of Absalom this has been determined from the day that he forced his sister Tamar.
  • 2 Sam 22:36You have also given me the shield of your salvation. Your gentleness has made me great.
  • 1 Kgs 2:26To Abiathar the priest the king said, “Go to Anathoth, to your own fields; for you are worthy of death. But I will not at this time put you to death, because you bore the Lord Yahweh’s ark before David my father, and because you were afflicted in all in which my father was afflicted.”
  • 1 Kgs 8:35“When the sky is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against you; if they pray toward this place, and confess your name, and turn from their sin, when you afflict them,
  • 1 Kgs 11:39I will afflict the offspring of David for this, but not forever.’”
  • 2 Kgs 17:20Yahweh rejected all the offspring of Israel, afflicted them, and delivered them into the hands of raiders, until he had cast them out of his sight.
  • 2 Chr 6:26“When the sky is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against you; if they pray toward this place, and confess your name, and turn from their sin, when you afflict them;
  • Ezra 8:21Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from him a straight way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our possessions.
  • Job 30:11For he has untied his cord, and afflicted me; and they have thrown off restraint before me.
  • Job 37:23We can’t reach the Almighty. He is exalted in power. In justice and great righteousness, he will not oppress.
  • Ps 35:13But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth. I afflicted my soul with fasting. My prayer returned into my own bosom.
  • Ps 88:1A Song. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “The Suffering of Affliction.” A contemplation by Heman, the Ezrahite. Yahweh, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you.
  • Ps 88:7Your wrath lies heavily on me. You have afflicted me with all your waves. Selah.
  • Ps 89:22No enemy will tax him. No wicked man will oppress him.
  • Ps 90:15Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen evil.
  • Ps 94:5They break your people in pieces, Yahweh, and afflict your heritage.
  • Ps 102:23He weakened my strength along the course. He shortened my days.
  • Ps 105:18They bruised his feet with shackles. His neck was locked in irons,
  • Ps 107:17Fools are afflicted because of their disobedience, and because of their iniquities.
  • Ps 116:10I believed, therefore I said, “I was greatly afflicted.”
  • Ps 119:67Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now I observe your word.
  • Ps 119:71It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn your statutes.
  • Ps 119:75Yahweh, I know that your judgments are righteous, that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.
  • Ps 119:107I am afflicted very much. Revive me, Yahweh, according to your word.
  • Ps 132:1A Song of Ascents. Yahweh, remember David and all his affliction,
  • Eccl 1:13I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the sky. It is a heavy burden that God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.
  • Eccl 3:10I have seen the burden which God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.
  • Eccl 5:20For he shall not often reflect on the days of his life; because God occupies him with the joy of his heart.
  • Isa 27:2In that day, sing to her, “A pleasant vineyard!
  • Isa 31:4For Yahweh says to me, “As the lion and the young lion growling over his prey, if a multitude of shepherds is called together against him, will not be dismayed at their voice, nor abase himself for their noise, so Yahweh of Armies will come down to fight on Mount Zion and on its heights.
  • Isa 53:4Surely he has borne our sickness, and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted.
  • Isa 53:7He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn’t open his mouth. As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he didn’t open his mouth.
  • Isa 58:3‘Why have we fasted,’ say they, ‘and you don’t see? Why have we afflicted our soul, and you don’t notice?’ “Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and oppress all your laborers.
  • Isa 58:5Is this the fast that I have chosen? A day for a man to humble his soul? Is it to bow down his head like a reed, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under himself? Will you call this a fast, and an acceptable day to Yahweh?
  • Isa 58:10and if you pour out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul: then your light will rise in darkness, and your obscurity will be as the noonday;
  • Isa 60:14The sons of those who afflicted you will come bowing to you; and all those who despised you will bow themselves down at the soles of your feet. They will call you Yahweh’s City, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
  • Isa 64:12Will you hold yourself back for these things, Yahweh? Will you keep silent, and punish us very severely?
  • Lam 3:33For he does not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men.
  • Lam 5:11They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.
  • Ezek 22:10In you have they uncovered their fathers’ nakedness. In you have they humbled her who was unclean in her impurity.
  • Ezek 22:11One has committed abomination with his neighbor’s wife; and another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law. Another in you has humbled his sister, his father’s daughter.
  • Dan 10:12Then he said to me, Don’t be afraid, Daniel; for from the first day that you set your heart to understand, and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard: and I have come for your words’ sake.
  • Nah 1:12Yahweh says: “Though they be in full strength, and likewise many, even so they will be cut down, and he shall pass away. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more.
  • Zeph 3:19Behold, at that time I will deal with all those who afflict you, and I will save those who are lame, and gather those who were driven away. I will give them praise and honor, whose shame has been in all the earth.
  • Zech 10:2For the teraphim have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie; and they have told false dreams. They comfort in vain. Therefore they go their way like sheep. They are oppressed, because there is no shepherd.

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.