עֲנָב
Anab
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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
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H6024 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.
Joshua 2 verses
- Joshua 11:21 עֲנָ֔ב n Proper Joshua came at that time, and cut off the Anakim from the hill-country, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the hill-country of Judah, and from all the hill-country of Israel: Joshua utterly destroyed them with their cities.
- Joshua 15:50 וַ/עֲנָ֥ב conj + n Proper and Anab, and Eshtemoh, and Anim,
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.
ענב — transliterated ʻĂnâb — is a Hebrew name carrying the sense “Anab.” With only 2 verses it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. Its uses cluster heavily in Joshua (100% of all occurrences). Its earliest occurrence is Joshua 11:21. See 2-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6024 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).
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Most concentrated in
- Joshua 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
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- King James Version: Anab 2×
- American Standard Version: Anab 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Anab 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Anab 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6024 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6024 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6024 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
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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.
- Anab = "fruit"
- a city in the mountains of southern Judah, 18 miles southwest of Hebron
Word origin
n.pr.loc. in hill-country of Judah Jos 11:21; 15:50, Αναβ(ωθ), Ανωβ[ν], mod. ʿAnab, 18 1/2 miles SW. from Hebron, BuhlGeogr. 164.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from ענב (ʻênâb) (H6025) — grape.
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.
עָנַב
- (cmp. ענף) to intertwine, fasten by means of a loop, contrad. to קָשַׁר. Sabb. 113ᵃ לא יהא קושרו אלא עוֹנְבוֹ he must not knot (the broken rope) but loop it; Tosef. ib. XII (XIII), 16 עוֹנְבִין אותו. Sabb. l. c. ובלבד שלא יַעַנְבֶנּוּ provided he does not fasten it with a loop. Tosef. Erub. XI (VIII), 19; Y. ib. X, 26ᶜ bot. משלשל מלמעלן ועוֹנֵב וכ׳ he pulls the cord down and makes the loop at the bottom; Bab. ib. 102ᵇ עוֹנְבָהּ; a. fr.—Part. pass. עָנוּב; f. עֲנוּבָה; pl. עֲנוּבִים &c. Tosef. Kel. B. Mets. V, 6 קשור וע׳ if the handle is tied to the vessel with a knot or loop. Mekh. Yithro, Baḥod., s. 3 הרי אתם קשורים ע׳ תפוסים you are now tied, looped, held fast (by the covenant); a. e.
עֲנַב
- Targ. Y. Ex. XXVIII, 28 Ar. (ed. ויטכס׳; h. text וירכסו).—Erub. 97ᵃ לִיעַנְבִינְהוּ מִיעֲנַב let him fasten them with a loop. Succ. 33ᵇ לִיעַנְבֵיה מיענב let him tie it (the Lulab) &c. Men. 38ᵇ לעַנְבָן כולהו בהדדי (v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 40) to make a loop of all of them together; a. e.
- to be looped. Ib. אלימי דלא מִיעַנְבֵי ואי הוו קטיני מיענבי if the threads are too thick to allow a loop, but long enough to be looped if they were thinner; a. e.
עֵנָב
- c. (b. h.; preced.)
- 1. grapes with the tendrils, also berry. Y. Ned. XI, 42ᵈ קונם תאנה … ועוד ע׳ I swear that I will not taste figs and furthermore (after thirty days) grapes.—Pl. עֲנָבִים, עֲנָבִין; const. עִנְּבֵי, עִי׳. Ib. Gen. R. s. 19 סחטה ע׳ וכ׳ she (Eve) pressed grapes and gave him the juice to drink. Pes. 49ᵃ משל לע׳ הגפן בע׳ הגפן (a marriage between a scholar and a scholar’s daughter is) like bunches of grapes combined with bunches of grapes; לע׳ הגפן בע׳ הסנה (a scholar married to an ignorant man’s daughter is) like a bunch of grapes with berries of thorns. Snh. 99ᵃ יין המשומר בעֲנָבָיו מששת וכ׳ wine preserved in its grapes from the six days of creation (future reward of scholars); Ber. 34ᵇ.—Succ. III, 2 ענביו מרובות מעליו if the berries on the myrtle exceed its leaves; a. fr.
- 2. (cmp. σταφύλωμα) a growth on the eye. Bekh. VI, 2 ועֵינָב (Ar. וענב; Bab. ed. 38ᵃ עצב, corr. acc.); ib.ᵇ עצב (corr. acc.); Sifra Emor, ch. II, Par. 3 עֵינָיו (Rab. ענב); v. אֵינָב.
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 H6024 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| וַ/עֲנָ֥ב | Noun, Proper | Joshua 15:50 | 1 |
| עֲנָ֔ב | Noun, Proper | Joshua 11:21 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H6024, 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.
Derives from
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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Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Anab). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
Grape-town, one of the cities in the mountains of Judah, from which Joshua expelled the Anakim (Josh. 11:21; 15:50). It still retains its ancient name. It lies among the hills, 10 miles south-south-west of Hebron.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(grape-town), a town in the mountains of Judah, (Joshua 15:50) named with Debir and Hebron as once belonging to the Anakim. (Joshua 11:21)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
a grape; a knot
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
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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