אֲנָא
I
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Pronoun
- A word standing in for a noun (“he,” “this,” “who”).
Person
- 1st Person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
Gender
- Common
- Either gender — not distinguished for this form.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H576 appears in the Book of Daniel — 14 distinct verses. 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.
Daniel
- Daniel 2:8 אֲנָ֔ה pron pers 1cs The king answered, I know of a certainty that you would gain time, because you see the thing is gone from me.
- Daniel 2:23 אֲנָ֔ה pron pers 1cs I thank you, and praise you, you God of my fathers, who have given me wisdom and might, and have now made known to me what we desired of you; for you have made known to us the king's matter.
- Daniel 2:30 וַ/אֲנָ֗ה conj + pron pers 1cs But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than any living, but to the intent that the interpretation may be made known to the king, and that you may know the thoughts of your heart.
- Daniel 3:25 אֲנָ֨ה pron pers 1cs He answered, Look, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the aspect of the fourth is like a son of the gods.
- Daniel 4:4 אֲנָ֣ה pron pers 1cs I, Nebuchadnezzar, was at rest in my house, and flourishing in my palace.
- Daniel 4:7 אֲנָה֙ pron pers 1cs Then came in the magicians, the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers; and I told the dream before them; but they did not make known to me the interpretation of it.
- Daniel 4:9 אֲנָ֣ה pron pers 1cs Belteshazzar, master of the magicians, because I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in you, and no secret troubles you, tell me the visions of my dream that I have seen, and the interpretation of it.
- Daniel 4:18 אֲנָ֖ה pron pers 1cs This dream I, king Nebuchadnezzar, have seen; and you, Belteshazzar, declare the interpretation, because all the wise men of my kingdom are not able to make known to me the interpretation; but you are able; for the spirit of the holy gods is in you.
- Daniel 4:30 אֲנָ֤ה pron pers 1cs The king spoke and said, Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling-place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?
- Daniel 4:34 אֲנָ֨ה pron pers 1cs At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to heaven, and my understanding returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honored him who lives forever; for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom from generation to generation.
- Daniel 4:37 אֲנָ֣ה pron pers 1cs Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase.
- Daniel 5:16 וַ/אֲנָה֙ conj + pron pers 1cs But I have heard of you, that you can give interpretations, and dissolve doubts; now if you can read the writing, and make known to me the interpretation of it, you shall be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold about your neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.
- Daniel 7:15 אֲנָ֥ה pron pers 1cs As for me, Daniel, my spirit was grieved in the midst of my body, and the visions of my head troubled me.
- Daniel 7:28 אֲנָ֨ה pron pers 1cs Here is the end of the matter. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts much troubled me, and my face was changed in me: but I kept the matter in my heart.
About this entry
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אנא — transliterated ʼănâʼ — is a Hebrew name carrying the sense “I.” Its uses cluster heavily in Daniel (88% of all occurrences). Spanning 16 verses in 2 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Hebrew Bible. Its earliest occurrence is Ezra 6:12. See 16-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H576 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 16
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 16 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,752
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,752 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 16 occurrences in the concordance →
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 16 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 16 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: I 14×, Me 2×
- American Standard Version: I 13×, Me 4×, Is 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: I 12×, Me 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: I 12×, Me 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H576 across 16 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H576 across 19 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H576 across 16 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H576 across 16 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- I (first person singular - usually used for emphasis)
Word origin
Derived from אני (ʼănîy) (H589) — I.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
אָנָּא
- (b. h.) oh! I pray. Succ. III, 9. Yoma VI, 2.
אֲנָא
- , emph. אֲנָנָא ch. = h. אֲנִי, I. הא אנא contr. הָאנָא. Targ. O. Gen. XXII, 7; a. fr.—Ḥull. 2ᵇ א׳ וכ׳ as to myself &c. Y. Taan. IV, 68ᵈ bot. דאננא משלים וכ׳ that I myself should surrender the country.—Pl. אֲנַן we. Targ. Y. Gen. XLIII, 8; a. e.—Ber. 49ᵇ נחזי א׳ let us see; a. fr.—אֲנַחְנָא, נַחְנָא. Targ. O. Gen. l. c.; a. fr.—
אִנָּא
- 1. v. אִינָא.—
- *2. = אִן אֲנָא if I.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 10 distinct written forms H576 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| אֲנָ֣ה | Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular | Daniel 4:4 | 3 |
| אֲנָ֨ה | Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular | Daniel 3:25 | 3 |
| אֲנָ֔ה | Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular | Daniel 2:8 | 2 |
| אֲנָ֤ה | Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular | Daniel 4:30 | 2 |
| אֲנָ֖ה | Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular | Daniel 4:18 | 1 |
| אֲנָ֞ה | Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular | Ezra 7:21 | 1 |
| אֲנָ֥ה | Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular | Daniel 7:15 | 1 |
| אֲנָה֙ | Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular | Daniel 4:7 | 1 |
| וַ/אֲנָ֗ה | Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular | Daniel 2:30 | 1 |
| וַ/אֲנָה֙ | Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular | Daniel 5:16 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 13 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 16 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
