# תַּעֲנִית (taanit)

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

Strong’s H8589. 1 Old Testament occurrences.

affliction (of self), i.e. fasting

King James renderings: heaviness.

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

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/taanit-h8589

## Occurrences

- [Ezra 9:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/9/5) — And at the evening sacrifice I arose up from my heaviness; and having rent my garment and my mantle, I fell upon my knees, and spread out m…