אָנָה
to mourn
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Every verse where H578 appears — 2 distinct verses across 1 book. 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.
Isaiah 2 verses
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
אנה (ʼânâh) is a Hebrew verb most often rendered “to mourn.” A scarce word — 2 verses in all of the Hebrew Bible. Isaiah dominates its distribution — 2 of 2 verses. It first appears in Isaiah 3:26. As a verb its force shifts by stem, across 4 stems (Qal, Piel, and more). The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H578 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 →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,807
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Isaiah 2 verses 100%
By section of the Old Testament
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 2 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 2 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).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 3 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Shall lament 1×, Shall mourn 1×
- American Standard Version†: Shall lament 2×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Will lament 1×, Will mourn 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: And 2×, Will lament 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H578 across 2† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H578 across 2† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H578 across 2† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H578 across 4† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in the full BDB
Hebrew verbs can shift meaning by stem (binyan): Qal is the basic action, Niphal is often passive or reflexive, Piel often intensifies or makes it factitive, and Hiphil is typically causative. The senses below are grouped under the stem BDB assigns to each. This entry also uses Pual (the passive of Piel) and Hithpael (reflexive or reciprocal).
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 4 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
אנה I mourn
Qal
- Pf. 3 pl. וְאָנוּ cons. Is 3:26; 19:8 (‖ אָבַל q.v.) e.g. Isaiah 3:26
אנה II
Piel
- Pf. אִנָּה Ex 21:13 cause (or allow) to meet in הָאֱלֹהִים א׳ לְיָדוֹ (obj. om.) i.e. without any purpose of the man to whom sf. ref. e.g. Exodus 21:13
Pual
- be allowed to meet, be sent, Impf. יְאֻנֶּה Pr 12:21 (c. ל); 3 fs. תְּאֻנֶּה ψ 91:10 (c. אֶל), subj. evil. e.g. Proverbs 12:21
Hithpael
- cause oneself to meet, seek occasion (= seek a quarrel with) sq. ל 2 K 5:7. e.g. 2 Kings 5:7
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
vb. be opportune, meet, encounter opportunely (Arabic أَنَى the right time is come, or it is come to the right time, or to maturity, or is opportune).
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: a primitive root
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.
אָנָה
- , v. אני
אני
- (= b. h. ינה, sec. r. of און, cmp. אָנַן a. b. h. ענה); Pi. (אִנָּה) אִינָּה to press, wrong, oppress; to impose, overreach in dealing, v. אוֹנָאָה. B. Mets. 59ᵇ המְאַנֶּה את הגר he who wounds a stranger’s (proselyte’s) feeling. Ib. 49ᵇ תן לי מה שאִינִּיתָנִי return to me the amount with which thou hast overreached me. Ib. 50ᵃ top מה שאניתני (Ms. R. 1 שנִתְאוֹנַנְתִּי, v. infra). Ib. 51ᵃ שאניתני (Ms. M. שאֲנַנְתָּנִי, fr. אָנַן; Mish. ib. IV, 2 שאוֹנִיתָנִי, v. אוֹנָאָה, Ms. R. 1 שהוֹנִיתָנִי, v. הוֹנָאָה, Ms. R. 2 שאונתני, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note).
- to be overreached. Ib. 49ᵇ מי נ׳ which of them has been overreached? Ib. 50ᵇ מי שנ׳ (Ms. M. מִתְאוֹנֶה); a. fr. [Nithpol. of אנן, נִתְאוֹנֵן, v. supra.] [In. Y. אוֹנָה, v. אוֹנָאָה.]
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 2 distinct written forms H578 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| וְ/אָנ֥וּ | Adverb | Isaiah 3:26 | 1 |
| וְ/אָנוּ֙ | Adverb | Isaiah 19:8 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H578, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derived from this word
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 2 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 2 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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