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title: אָנָה — mourn · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אָנָה (578), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: mourn. BDB 1906: vb. mourn. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אָנָה

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«אָנָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **mourn** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 2 times · **Key:** 578 · **BDB:** אָנָה

### Glosses

they.will.lament (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

mourn [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/578/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. mourn [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/578/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. mourn— Pf. 3 pl. וְאָנוּ cons. Is 3:26; 19:8 (‖ אָבַל q.v.)

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אָנָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/578/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 3:26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.3.26/)

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וְאָנ֥וּ וְאָבְל֖וּ פְּתָחֶ֑יהָ וְנִקָּ֖תָה לָאָ֥רֶץ תֵּשֵֽׁב׃

*Word for word:* and they.will.lament and they.will.mourn gates its and it.will.be.emptied to the ground it.will.sit

*JPS 1917:* And her gates shall lament and mourn; and utterly bereft she shall sit upon the ground.

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[Isaiah 19:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.19.8/)

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וְאָנוּ֙ הַדַּיָּגִ֔ים וְאָ֣בְל֔וּ כָּל־מַשְׁלִיכֵ֥י בַיְא֖וֹר חַכָּ֑ה וּפֹרְשֵׂ֥י מִכְמֹ֛רֶת עַל־פְּנֵי־מַ֖יִם אֻמְלָֽלוּ׃

*Word for word:* and they.will.lament the fishermen and they.will.mourn all \[those.who\].cast in the River a.fish.hook and \[those.who\].spread.out (of).a.fishing.net on \[the\].surface of.\[the\].waters they.will.languish

*JPS 1917:* The fishers also shall lament, and all they that cast angle into the Nile shall mourn, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.

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