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מָאֵן

to refuse

H3985 Strong's Hebrew
mâʼên Transliteration
/maw-ane'/ Pronunciation
Usage in the Hebrew Bible 41 appearances

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Grammar key — what these labels mean

Part of speech

Verb
An action or state-of-being word.

Stem

Piel
An intensive or resultative active stem.

Form

Perfect
A completed action or state — Hebrew marks aspect (completeness) more than strict tense (“he wrote”).
Sequential Imperfect
An imperfect with prefixed waw — the standard past-narrative form (waw-consecutive imperfect).
Infinitive Absolute
An unbound verbal noun, often intensifying or standing in for a finite verb.
Imperfect
An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).

Person

3rd Person
The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
2nd Person
The one addressed (“you”).

Gender

Common
Either gender — not distinguished for this form.
Masculine
Grammatically masculine.
Feminine
Grammatically feminine.

Number

Plural
More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Singular
One.

Grammatical forms 15 distinct

  • Verb, Piel, Perfect, 3rd Person, Common, Plural 10 times (24%)
  • Verb, Piel, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 9 times (22%)
  • Verb, Piel, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 5 times (12%)
  • Verb, Piel, Perfect, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular 4 times (10%)
  • Verb, Piel, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural 3 times (7%)
  • Verb, Piel, Sequential Imperfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural 1 time (2%)
  • Verb, Piel, Sequential Imperfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular 1 time (2%)
  • Verb, Piel, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular 1 time (2%)

+7 more forms (7 occurrences)

Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 41 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.

Every verse where H3985 appears — 39 distinct verses across 17 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.

Genesis 3 verses

Exodus 5 verses

Numbers 3 verses

Deuteronomy 1 verse

1 Samuel 2 verses

2 Samuel 2 verses

1 Kings 2 verses

2 Kings 1 verse

Nehemiah 1 verse

Esther 1 verse

Job 1 verse

Psalms 2 verses

Proverbs 3 verses

Isaiah 1 verse

Jeremiah 9 verses

Hosea 1 verse

Zechariah 1 verse

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