עָנַק
to adorn
‘to adorn’ is one of 3 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Stem
- Hiphil
- The causative active stem (“he caused / brought about”).
- Qal
- The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”). Here: ‘pride is necklace for them’
Form
- Infinitive Absolute
- An unbound verbal noun, often intensifying or standing in for a finite verb.
- Imperfect
- An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
- Perfect
- A completed action or state — Hebrew marks aspect (completeness) more than strict tense (“he wrote”).
Person
- 2nd Person
- The one addressed (“you”).
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Hiphil, Infinitive Absolute 1 time (33%)
- Verb, Hiphil, Imperfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular 1 time (33%)
- Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular 1 time (33%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 3 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H6059 appears — 2 distinct verses across 2 books. 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.
Deuteronomy 1 verse
Psalms 1 verse
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.
The Hebrew verb ענק centers on the idea of “to adorn.” The Hebrew Bible uses it only 2 verses. Deuteronomy dominates its distribution — 1 of 2 verses. First canonically at Deuteronomy 15:14, it enters the text early. Read the stem: it spans 2 stems, including Qal and Hiphil. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6059 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.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,179
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,179 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Deuteronomy 1 verse 50%
- Psalms 1 verse 50%
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.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 1 verse · 50%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 50%
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: Compasseth them about as a chain 1×, Liberally 1×, Thou shalt furnish 1×
- American Standard Version: Is as a chain 1×, Liberally 1×, Thou shalt furnish 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Is their necklace 1×, You are to furnish him liberally 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Necklace for them 1×, Providing 1×, You shall liberally provide 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6059 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6059 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6059 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6059 across 3 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.
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 2 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.
Qal
- pride is necklace for them
Hiphil
- . thou shalt make a rich necklace for him
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
[ עָנַק ] vb. denom. serve as necklace
— 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.
עָנַק
- 1. to be narrow, elongated; denom. עֲנָק, עוּנְקָא &c.
- 2. to press, force, rule. Gen. R. s. 26 (expl. עֲנָקִים) שהיו עוֹנְקִים גלגל חמה ואומרים הורד וכ׳ they seized the globe of the sun and said, Send us rain down; Yalk. ib. 47. Num. R. s. 16 (ref. to ילידי הענק, Num. XIII, 28) שראוהו שהיה עוֹנֵק את השמש they (the spies) saw him force the sun (to give rain); Tanḥ. Shlaḥ 7. e.g. Numbers 13:28
- 1. same. Yoma 10ᵃ (ref. to Num. l. c.) שמַעֲנִיקִין החמה בקומתן they lorded it over the sun by virtue of their height; Sot. 34ᵇ (Rashi: they had the appearance of squeezing their heads into the sun).
- 2. [to suspend around the neck, load,] to outfit the emancipated slave with gifts (Deut. XV, 14). Y. Kidd. I, 59ᶜ bot. אילו שמַעֲנִיקִין להן וכ׳ the following are those who must be sent away with gifts; Bab. Kidd. 16ᵇ. Ib. יכול לא יהיו מַעֲנִיקִים וכ׳ you might think that only he who is discharged after the expiration of six years of servitude, must be outfitted. Sifré Deut. 119 שאם הֶעֱנַקְתָּ … תַּעֲנִיק לו וכ׳ that when thou hast outfitted him once, thou must do it again &c. Kidd. l. c. כמה מעניקים לו how much must he be given?; a. fr. e.g. Deuteronomy 15:14
עֶנֶק
- (preced.) an emancipated slave’s outfit. Kidd. 16ᵇ ע׳ עבד עברי לעצמו וע׳ אמה וכ׳ the outfit of a Hebrew slave belongs to himself, and that of a Hebrew handmaid to herself; ע׳ אמה העבריה ומציאתה וכ׳ the outfit of a Hebrew handmaid and what she finds belong to her father; a. e.
עֲנָק I
- giant. Num. R. s. 16, a. e., v. עָנַק.—Pl. עֲנָקִים. Gen. R. s. 26 (ref. to Gen. VI, 4) שבע שמות … ע׳ וכ׳ they (of that race) are called by seven names: Emim, … ʿĂnaḳim; Yalk. ib. 47, v. עָנַק. e.g. Genesis 6:4
עֲנָק II
- [neck,] necklace, chain. Erub. 54ᵃ (ref. to Prov. I, 9) אם … כע׳ זה שרף על וכ׳ if a man trains himself to be like a necklace which is loose around the neck, and is (sometimes) seen and (sometimes) not seen (i.e. is yielding and modest), his learning will be established &c.; Yalk. Prov. 929 שיפה לצואר (read: שרָפֶה). Yalk. Ps. 675 the Law is ע׳ לצואר a chain for the neck (Lev. R. s. 12 מונייק). B. Bath. 75ᵃ לא זכה עושין לו ע׳ if he is not worthy, they will make a chain for him. [Ib. זכה עושין לו ע׳ if he is worthy, they will make a necklace for him; omitted in Ms. R.; v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 9.]—Pl. עֲנָקִים. Gen. R. s. 26 (they are called ʿĂnaḳim) שהיו מרבים ע׳ ע"ג עֳנָקִים they increased the chains around the necks (subjugated many people); Yalk. ib. 47. e.g. Proverbs 1:9
עֹנֶק
- (preced.) neck.—Pl. עֳנָקִים, v. preced.
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 H6059 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that stem’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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| הַעֲנֵ֤יק | Verb, Hiphil, Infinitive Absolute | Deuteronomy 15:14 | 1 |
| עֲנָקַ֣תְ/מוֹ | Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular | Psalms 73:6 | 1 |
| תַּעֲנִיק֙ | Verb, Hiphil, Imperfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular | Deuteronomy 15:14 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H6059, 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
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
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.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
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.
