Anan עָנַן
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| עָנַן | |
|---|---|
| Transliteration | anan |
| Strong's number | H6049 (H6049B, H6049A, H6049G) |
| Language | Hebrew |
| Part of speech | verb |
| Gloss | to divine |
| Occurrences | 11 in 11 verses |
| Most frequent in | Deuteronomy (2) |
Anan (Hebrew עָנַן, Strong's H6049) is a Hebrew verb meaning “to divine”. It occurs 11 times in 11 verses of the Old Testament.
Definition
H6049B: to divine
1) (Poel) to practise soothsaying, conjure
1a) to observe times, practice soothsaying or spiritism or magic or augury or witchcraft
1b) soothsayer, enchanter, sorceress, diviner, fortuneteller, barbarian, Meonenim (participle)
1a) to observe times, practice soothsaying or spiritism or magic or augury or witchcraft
1b) soothsayer, enchanter, sorceress, diviner, fortuneteller, barbarian, Meonenim (participle)
H6049A: to cloud
(Piel) to make appear, produce, bring (clouds)
H6049G: Diviners' (Oak)
This name means soothsaying or augury
From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
Translated as
| KJV | times (5), soothsayers (2), bring (1), meonenim (1), sorceress (1), enchanters (1) |
|---|---|
| BSB | whenever i form (1), sorcery (1), conjury (1), conjurers (1), diviners (1), practiced sorcery (1), he practiced sorcery (1), they are soothsayers (1), sorceress (1), your mediums (1), fortune tellers (1) |
Verses
Every verse with Anan, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).
Genesis
- Genesis 9:14And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:Whenever I form clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds,
Leviticus
- Leviticus 19:26Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times.You must not eat anything with blood still in it. You must not practice divination or sorcery.
Deuteronomy
- Deuteronomy 18:10There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, practices divination or conjury, interprets omens, practices sorcery,
- Deuteronomy 18:14For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the Lord thy God hath not suffered thee so to do.Though these nations, which you will dispossess, listen to conjurers and diviners, the LORD your God has not permitted you to do so.
Judges
- Judges 9:37And Gaal spake again and said, See there come people down by the middle of the land, and another company come along by the plain of Meonenim.Then Gaal spoke up again, “Look, people are coming down from the center of the land, and one company is coming by way of the Diviners’ Oak.”
2 Kings
- 2 Kings 21:6And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.He sacrificed his own son in the fire, practiced sorcery and divination, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did great evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger.
2 Chronicles
- 2 Chronicles 33:6And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.He sacrificed his sons in the fire in the Valley of Hinnom. He practiced sorcery, divination, and witchcraft, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did great evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger.
Isaiah
- Isaiah 2:6Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.For You have abandoned Your people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled with influences from the east; they are soothsayers like the Philistines; they strike hands with the children of foreigners.
- Isaiah 57:3But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore.“But come here, you sons of a sorceress, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes!
Jeremiah
- Jeremiah 27:9Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor to your sorcerers, which speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon:But as for you, do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your interpreters of dreams, your mediums, or your sorcerers who declare, ‘You will not serve the king of Babylon.’
Micah
- Micah 5:12And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and thou shalt have no more soothsayers:I will cut the sorceries from your hand, and you will have no fortune-tellers.
Notes
- Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
- English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).