עֲנָיָה
Anaiah
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Anaiah’ fuller range ↓
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 H6043 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.
Nehemiah 2 verses
- Nehemiah 8:4 וַ֠/עֲנָיָה conj + n Proper Ezra the scribe stood on a pulpit of wood, which they had made for the purpose; and beside him stood Mattithiah, and Shema, and Anaiah, and Uriah, and Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his right hand; and on his left hand, Pedaiah, and Mishael, and Malchijah, and Hashum, and Hashbaddanah, Zechariah, [and] Meshullam.
- Nehemiah 10:22 עֲנָיָֽה n Proper Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah,
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.
“Anaiah” is the headline sense of the Hebrew name עניה (ʻĂnâyâh). It is rare — just 2 verses in the entire Hebrew Bible. More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in Nehemiah. Its earliest occurrence is Nehemiah 8:4. See 2-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6043 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
- Nehemiah 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.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 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: Anaiah 2×
- American Standard Version: Anaiah 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Anaiah 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Anaiah 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6043 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6043 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6043 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6043 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
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.
- Anaiah = "Jehovah has answered"
- a priest who helped Ezra and signed the covenant with Nehemiah
Word origin
n.pr.m. Ne 8:4; 10:23, Ανανια(ς).
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from ענה (ʻânâh) (H6030) — to answer.
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.
ענָוָה I
- (עָנָה I) divine response to prayer, yield, fertility; (Maim. refers to Hos. II, 23, sq.). Peah I, 2; ib. VI, 7, v. עֲנָבָה 2; a. e. e.g. Hosea 2:23
עֲנָיָה
- , v. עֲנָוָה I
עֲנִיָּה I
- , fem. of עָנִי.
עֲנִיָּה II
- ‘Ăniya Anathoth. Targ. Is. X, 30.
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 H6043 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| וַ֠/עֲנָיָה | Noun, Proper | Nehemiah 8:4 | 1 |
| עֲנָיָֽה | Noun, Proper | Nehemiah 10:22 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H6043, 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
Shares the same root
- מען maʻan H4616 for the sake of
- מענה maʻăneh H4617 answer
- ענה ʻânâh H6031 to afflict
- ענה ʻănâh H6032 to answer
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 9 — not the complete family. 3 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Anaiah). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(whom Jehovah answers).
+ Probably a priest. (Nehemiah 8:4) + One of the "heads of the people" who signed the covenant with Nehemiah. (Nehemiah 10:22)
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
