אֲנָךְ
plummet
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
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.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H594 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.
Amos 2 verses
- Amos 7:7 אֲנָ֑ךְ אֲנָֽךְ n c ms n c ms Thus he showed me and, behold, the Lord stood beside a wall made by a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand.
- Amos 7:8 אֲנָ֑ךְ אֲנָךְ֙ n c ms n c ms Yahweh said to me, "Amos, what do you see?" I said, "A plumb line." Then the Lord said, "Behold, I will set a plumb line in the midst of my people Israel. I will not again pass by them any more.
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.
אנך — transliterated ʼănâk — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “plummet.” With only 2 verses it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. Its uses cluster heavily in Amos (100% of all occurrences). Debuting at Amos 7:7, it then recurs through the corpus. From the same root come תנוך. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H594 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.
- #3,696
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,696 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Amos 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).
- King James Version: Plumbline 3×
- American Standard Version: I said a plumb-line 1×, I will set a plumb-line 1×, Made by a plumb-line 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Plumb line 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Plumb line 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H594 across 4 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.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H594 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H594 across 4 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.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H594 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
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.
- plummet, plumb, lead-weight
Word origin
n.[m.] plummet (cf. words in cogn. lang. for lead, tin, etym. dub., perhaps foreign; Arabic آنُكٌ (v. Frä153) Syriac ܐܰܢܟܳܐ Mand. אנכא, Assyrian anâku LyonSargontexte 92; v. LagArm. Stud. § 103 cf. Id.BN 175)—אֲנָ֑ךְ except once Am 7:8—plummet Am 7:7, 8(×2); חוֹמַת א׳, i.e. a vertical wall v 7.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: probably from an unused root meaning to be narrow
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.
אָנַךְ
- (sec. r. of אך, cmp. חנך)
- 1. to rub, polish, finish, esp. to glaze vessels, to line (with onyx). Tosef. Kel. B. Mets. I, 3 כלים … שאֲנָכָן באנך וכ׳ (or שאִנְּכָן Pi.) clean vessels which one lined with unclean glaze (onyx); v. אָנָךְ.
- 2. (cmp. חֲכָךְ) to make sore, to grieve. Denom. אַךְ II.
*אֲנָךְ I
- (preced. 2)) grief, wrong. B. Mets. 59ᵃ all gates are sometimes closed except the gates (of prayer) of those wronged by men (v. אוֹנָאָה), for it says, (Amos VII, 3) “Behold the Lord stands on the wall of anakh and in his hand he holds anakh (oppression).” Ib. אונאה דכתיב ובידו א׳ the Lord hears the prayer of the wronged, for it says &c.; v. אוֹנָיָתָא. e.g. Amos 7:3
אֲנָךְ II
- prob. fr. a demonstr. אן, cmp. הן, דּוּךְ &c., a. אֲנִי, אָנֹכִי) plummet, plumb-line. Lev. R. s. 33, beg. a. e. א׳ זה סנהדרי וכ׳ by the plummet (Amos VII, 7) the Great Sanedrin are meant whose number (71) corresponds with the numerical value of א̇נ̇ך̇. e.g. Amos 7:7
אָנָךְ
- (אָנַךְ)
- 1. ) Onyx Agate, a semipellucid stone of a fine flinty texture. Ab. Zar. 8ᵇ Ar. אנך (ed. אינך).
- 2. a variety of gypseous alabaster, onyx; a glaze. Ib. 11ᵇ ומחפין … בא׳ Ar. (ed. באי׳) the streets are paved with &c. (for the procession). Tosef. Kel. B. Mets. I, 3, v. אָנַךְ. Lev. R. s. 33 nothing makes the kettle durable אלא אֲנָכָהּ וכ׳ but its glaze lining; so says the Lord אֲנָכְכֶם וכ׳ I am your lining (stay) in trials (incorr. in some ed. a. Ar. s. v. נך).
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 3 distinct written forms H594 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| אֲנָ֑ךְ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Amos 7:7 | 2 |
| אֲנָֽךְ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Amos 7:7 | 1 |
| אֲנָךְ֙ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Amos 7:8 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H594, 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
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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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