# עָנִי (ani) Israeli respelling: a-ni. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew. Strong’s H6041. 77 Old Testament occurrences. depressed, in mind or circumstances King James renderings: afflicted, humble, lowly, needy, poor. Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/ani-h6041 ## Occurrences - [Exodus 22:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/22/25) — If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury. - [Leviticus 19:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/19/10) — And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and strang… - [Leviticus 23:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/23/22) — And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt… - [Deuteronomy 15:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/15/11) — For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy… - [Deuteronomy 24:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/24/12) — And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge: - [Deuteronomy 24:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/24/14) — Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land wit… - [Deuteronomy 24:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/24/15) — At his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry… - [2 Samuel 22:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/22/28) — And the afflicted people thou wilt save: but thine eyes are upon the haughty, that thou mayest bring them down. - [Job 24:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/24/9) — They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor. - [Job 24:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/24/14) — The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief. - [Job 29:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/29/12) — Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. - [Job 34:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/34/28) — So that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto him, and he heareth the cry of the afflicted. - [Job 36:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/36/6) — He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to the poor. - [Job 36:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/36/15) — He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression. - [Psalms 9:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/9/12) — When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble. - [Psalms 9:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/9/18) — For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever. - [Psalms 10:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/10/2) — The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined. - [Psalms 10:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/10/9) — He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his ne… - [Psalms 10:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/10/12) — Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble. - [Psalms 12:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/12/5) — For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puff… - [Psalms 14:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/14/6) — Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge. - [Psalms 18:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/18/27) — For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks. - [Psalms 22:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/22/24) — For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, h… - [Psalms 25:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/25/16) — Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I am desolate and afflicted. - [Psalms 34:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/34/6) — This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles. - [Psalms 35:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/35/10) — All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the n… - [Psalms 37:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/37/14) — The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversati… - [Psalms 40:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/40/17) — But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God. - [Psalms 68:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/68/10) — Thy congregation hath dwelt therein: thou, O God, hast prepared of thy goodness for the poor. - [Psalms 69:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/69/29) — But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high. - [Psalms 70:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/70/5) — But I am poor and needy: make haste unto me, O God: thou art my help and my deliverer; O LORD, make no tarrying. - [Psalms 72:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/72/2) — He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment. - [Psalms 72:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/72/4) — He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor. - [Psalms 72:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/72/12) — For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and him that hath no helper. - [Psalms 74:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/74/19) — O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever. - [Psalms 74:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/74/21) — O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name. - [Psalms 82:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/82/3) — Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy. - [Psalms 86:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/86/1) — Bow down thine ear, O LORD, hear me: for I am poor and needy. - [Psalms 88:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/88/15) — I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted. - [Psalms 102:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/102/1) — Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto thee. - [Psalms 109:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/109/16) — Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart. - [Psalms 109:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/109/22) — For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me. - [Psalms 140:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/140/12) — I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor. - [Proverbs 3:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/3/34) — Surely he scorneth the scorners: but he giveth grace unto the lowly. - [Proverbs 14:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/14/21) — He that despiseth his neighbour sinneth: but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he. - [Proverbs 15:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/15/15) — All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast. - [Proverbs 16:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/16/19) — Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud. - [Proverbs 22:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/22/22) — Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate: - [Proverbs 30:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/30/14) — There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from… - [Proverbs 31:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/31/9) — Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy. - [Proverbs 31:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/31/20) — She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy. - [Ecclesiastes 6:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/6/8) — For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living? - [Isaiah 3:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/3/14) — The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of… - [Isaiah 3:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/3/15) — What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts. - [Isaiah 10:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/10/2) — To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they… - [Isaiah 10:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/10/30) — Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim: cause it to be heard unto Laish, O poor Anathoth. - [Isaiah 14:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/14/32) — What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That the LORD hath founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it. - [Isaiah 26:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/26/6) — The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy. - [Isaiah 32:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/32/7) — The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh r… - [Isaiah 41:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/41/17) — When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel… - [Isaiah 49:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/49/13) — Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains: for the LORD hath comforted his people, and will have m… - [Isaiah 51:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/51/21) — Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine: - [Isaiah 54:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/54/11) — O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sap… - [Isaiah 58:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/58/7) — Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that tho… - [Isaiah 66:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/66/2) — For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is… - [Jeremiah 22:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/22/16) — He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? saith the LORD. - [Ezekiel 16:49](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/16/49) — Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neit… - [Ezekiel 18:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/18/12) — Hath oppressed the poor and needy, hath spoiled by violence, hath not restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his eyes to the idols, hath c… - [Ezekiel 18:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/18/17) — That hath taken off his hand from the poor, that hath not received usury nor increase, hath executed my judgments, hath walked in my statut… - [Ezekiel 22:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/22/29) — The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the strange… - [Amos 8:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/8/4) — Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail, - [Habakkuk 3:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/habakkuk/3/14) — Thou didst strike through with his staves the head of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing was as to d… - [Zephaniah 3:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zephaniah/3/12) — I will also leave in the midst of thee an afflicted and poor people, and they shall trust in the name of the LORD. - [Zechariah 7:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/7/10) — And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your hea… - [Zechariah 9:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/9/9) — Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; l… - [Zechariah 11:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/11/7) — And I will feed the flock of slaughter, even you, O poor of the flock. And I took unto me two staves; the one I called Beauty, and the othe… - [Zechariah 11:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/11/11) — And it was broken in that day: and so the poor of the flock that waited upon me knew that it was the word of the LORD.