אֳנִיָּה
ship
‘ship’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
- Singular
- One.
4 verses where H591 appears in the Absolute state in the Book of 2 Chronicles. Filtered view — show all forms. 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.
2 Chronicles
- 2 Chronicles 8:18 אוניות אֳנִיּ֗וֹת n c fp n c fp Huram sent him by the hands of his servants ships, and servants who had knowledge of the sea; and they came with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and fetched from there four hundred fifty talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon.
- 2 Chronicles 9:21 אֳנִיּ֤וֹת אֳנִיּ֣וֹת n c fp n c fp cs For the king had ships that went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram; once every three years came the ships of Tarshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
- 2 Chronicles 20:36 אֳנִיּ֖וֹת אֳנִיּ֖וֹת n c fp n c fp and he joined himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish; and they made the ships in Ezion Geber.
- 2 Chronicles 20:37 אֳנִיּ֔וֹת n c fp Then Eliezer the son of Dodavahu of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, Because you have joined yourself with Ahaziah, Yahweh has destroyed your works. The ships were broken, so that they were not able to go to Tarshish.
About this entry
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אניה — transliterated ʼŏnîyâh — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “ship.” It first appears in Genesis 49:13. With 28 verses in 12 books, it is a moderately common word in the Hebrew Bible. Its lexical range runs to 2 senses. See the sense tree, 28-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H591 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 →
- 28
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 28 distinct verses.
- 12 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 12 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,086
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,086 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 28 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Isaiah 5 verses 18%
- 2 Chronicles 4 verses 14%
- 1 Kings 3 verses 11%
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 28 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 15 verses · 54%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 11 verses · 39%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 2 verses · 7%
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: Ships 21×, Ship 3×, All the ships 2×
- American Standard Version: Ships 17×, Ship 3×, All the ships 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Ships 21×, Ship 4×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Ships 18×, Ships of 7×, Ship 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H591 across 30 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. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 2 further occurrences.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H591 across 29 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H591 across 28 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 3 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H591 across 32 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses 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.
- ship
- men of ships, seamen
Word origin
n.f. unit. a ship—abs. Jon 1:3 + 3 times; Pl. abs. אֳנִיּוֹת Dt 28:68 +; אֳונִ֯יּוֹת 2 Ch 8:18; cstr. = abs. 1 K 22:49 +, etc.;—a ship Pr 30:19 Gn 49:13 Dt 28:68 Ju 5:17 (where, however, cf. BuBB Richter u. Sam. p. 16 on text) 1 K 22:49, 50 Is 43:14 2 Ch 8:18; 20:36, 37; Jon 1:4, 5 ψ 104:26; 107:23 Dn 11:40; א׳ הַיָּם Ez 27:9; propelled by oars Ez 27:29; especially א׳ תַּרְשִׁישׁ (cf. אֳנִי) 1 K 22:49 2 Ch 9:21 (cf. 1 K 10:22 supr. sub אֳנִי) ψ 48:8; Is 2:16; 23:1, 14; 60:9; Ez 27:25; late of ship going to Tarshish 2 Ch 9:21; 20:26 Jon 1:3; merchant-ship, א׳ סוֹחֵר Pr 31:14; א׳ אֵבֶ֑ה swift ships Jb 9:26 (cf. אבה); seamen אַנְשֵׁי־אֳנִיּוֹת 1 K 9:27.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from אני (ʼŏnîy) (H590) — fleet.
Forms in the corpus
The 20 distinct written forms H591 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.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 24 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 28 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
- Genesis 49:13
- Deuteronomy 28:68
- Judges 5:17
- 2 Chronicles 8:18
- Job 9:26
- Psalms 48:7
- Proverbs 30:19
- Isaiah 2:16
- Ezekiel 27:9
- Daniel 11:40
- Jonah 1:3
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.
