# עָנָה (anah)

Israeli respelling: a-nah. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H6031. 79 Old Testament occurrences.

to depress literally or figuratively, transitive or intransitive (in various applications, as follows)

King James renderings: abase self, afflict(-ion, self), answer (by mistake for H6030 (עָנָה)), chasten self, deal hardly with, defile, exercise, force, gentleness, humble (self), hurt, ravish, sing (by mistake for H6030 (עָנָה)), speak (by mistake for H6030 (עָנ…

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/anah-h6031

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 15:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/15/13) — And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they sha…
- [Genesis 16:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/16/6) — But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid is in thy hand; do to her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai dealt hardly with her, she fled f…
- [Genesis 16:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/16/9) — And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.
- [Genesis 31:50](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/31/50) — If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt take other wives beside my daughters, no man is with us; see, God is witness betwixt m…
- [Genesis 34:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/34/2) — And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her.
- [Exodus 1:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/1/11) — Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raa…
- [Exodus 1:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/1/12) — But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.
- [Exodus 10:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/10/3) — And Moses and Aaron came in unto Pharaoh, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews, How long wilt thou refuse to humble th…
- [Exodus 22:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/22/22) — Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
- [Exodus 22:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/22/23) — If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;
- [Leviticus 16:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/16/29) — And this shall be a statute for ever unto you: that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict your souls, and d…
- [Leviticus 16:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/16/31) — It shall be a sabbath of rest unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls, by a statute for ever.
- [Leviticus 23:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/23/27) — Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall affli…
- [Leviticus 23:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/23/29) — For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people.
- [Leviticus 23:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/23/32) — It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall…
- [Numbers 24:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/24/24) — And ships shall come from the coast of Chittim, and shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber, and he also shall perish for ever.
- [Numbers 29:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/29/7) — And ye shall have on the tenth day of this seventh month an holy convocation; and ye shall afflict your souls: ye shall not do any work the…
- [Numbers 30:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/30/13) — Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.
- [Deuteronomy 8:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/8/2) — And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee,…
- [Deuteronomy 8:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/8/3) — And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he mi…
- [Deuteronomy 8:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/8/16) — Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee…
- [Deuteronomy 21:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/21/14) — And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt let her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell her at all for money,…
- [Deuteronomy 22:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/22/24) — Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cr…
- [Deuteronomy 22:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/22/29) — Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humb…
- [Deuteronomy 26:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/26/6) — And the Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage:
- [Judges 16:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/16/5) — And the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and said unto her, Entice him, and see wherein his great strength lieth, and by what mea…
- [Judges 16:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/16/6) — And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee.
- [Judges 16:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/16/19) — And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head; and she began…
- [Judges 19:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/19/24) — Behold, here is my daughter a maiden, and his concubine; them I will bring out now, and humble ye them, and do with them what seemeth good…
- [Judges 20:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/20/5) — And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the house round about upon me by night, and thought to have slain me: and my concubine hav…
- [2 Samuel 7:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/7/10) — Moreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more; n…
- [2 Samuel 13:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/13/12) — And she answered him, Nay, my brother, do not force me; for no such thing ought to be done in Israel: do not thou this folly.
- [2 Samuel 13:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/13/14) — Howbeit he would not hearken unto her voice: but, being stronger than she, forced her, and lay with her.
- [2 Samuel 13:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/13/22) — And Absalom spake unto his brother Amnon neither good nor bad: for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had forced his sister Tamar.
- [2 Samuel 13:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/13/32) — And Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David’s brother, answered and said, Let not my lord suppose that they have slain all the young men the king…
- [2 Samuel 22:36](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/22/36) — Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy gentleness hath made me great.
- [1 Kings 2:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/2/26) — And unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get thee to Anathoth, unto thine own fields; for thou art worthy of death: but I will not at th…
- [1 Kings 8:35](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/8/35) — When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name,…
- [1 Kings 11:39](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/11/39) — And I will for this afflict the seed of David, but not for ever.
- [2 Kings 17:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/17/20) — And the LORD rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out…
- [2 Chronicles 6:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/6/26) — When the heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; yet if they pray toward this place, and confess th…
- [Ezra 8:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/8/21) — Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, a…
- [Job 30:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/30/11) — Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.
- [Job 37:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/37/23) — Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out: he is excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice: he will not afflict.
- [Psalms 35:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/35/13) — But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.
- [Psalms 55:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/55/19) — God shall hear, and afflict them, even he that abideth of old. Selah. Because they have no changes, therefore they fear not God.
- [Psalms 88:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/88/1) — O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:
- [Psalms 88:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/88/7) — Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.
- [Psalms 89:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/89/22) — The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him.
- [Psalms 90:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/90/15) — Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.
- [Psalms 94:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/94/5) — They break in pieces thy people, O LORD, and afflict thine heritage.
- [Psalms 102:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/102/23) — He weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days.
- [Psalms 105:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/105/18) — Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron:
- [Psalms 107:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/107/17) — Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.
- [Psalms 116:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/116/10) — I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted:
- [Psalms 119:67](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/67) — Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.
- [Psalms 119:71](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/71) — It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.
- [Psalms 119:75](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/75) — I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.
- [Psalms 119:107](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/107) — I am afflicted very much: quicken me, O LORD, according unto thy word.
- [Psalms 132:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/132/1) — Lord, remember David, and all his afflictions:
- [Ecclesiastes 1:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/1/13) — And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to…
- [Ecclesiastes 3:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/3/10) — I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.
- [Ecclesiastes 5:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/5/20) — For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answereth him in the joy of his heart.
- [Isaiah 31:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/31/4) — For thus hath the LORD spoken unto me, Like as the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called for…
- [Isaiah 53:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/53/4) — Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
- [Isaiah 53:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/53/7) — He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her sh…
- [Isaiah 58:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/58/3) — Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the…
- [Isaiah 58:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/58/5) — Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth…
- [Isaiah 58:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/58/10) — And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as…
- [Isaiah 60:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/60/14) — The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the so…
- [Isaiah 64:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/64/12) — Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O LORD? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?
- [Lamentations 3:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/3/33) — For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.
- [Lamentations 5:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/5/11) — They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
- [Ezekiel 22:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/22/10) — In thee have they discovered their fathers’ nakedness: in thee have they humbled her that was set apart for pollution.
- [Ezekiel 22:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/22/11) — And one hath committed abomination with his neighbour’s wife; and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter in law; and another in thee hath…
- [Daniel 10:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/10/12) — Then said he unto me, Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to chasten thyself before…
- [Nahum 1:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nahum/1/12) — Thus saith the LORD; Though they be quiet, and likewise many, yet thus shall they be cut down, when he shall pass through. Though I have af…
- [Zephaniah 3:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zephaniah/3/19) — Behold, at that time I will undo all that afflict thee: and I will save her that halteth, and gather her that was driven out; and I will ge…
- [Zechariah 10:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/10/2) — For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went t…