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title: אָנָה — be opportune · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אָנָה (579), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 4 times: be opportune. BDB 1906: vb. be opportune, meet, encounter opportunely. 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: **be opportune** — 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:** 4 times · **Key:** 579 · **BDB:** אָנָה²

### Glosses

\[is\].seeking.an.opportunity (1); he.allowed.to.happen (1); it.happens (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

be opportune [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/579/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. be opportune, meet, encounter opportunely [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/579/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. be opportune, meet, encounter opportunely (Arabic أَنَى the right time is come, or it is come to the right time, or to maturity, or is opportune). Pf. אִנָּה Ex 21:13 cause (or allow) to meet in הָאֱלֹהִים א׳ לְיָדוֹ (obj. om.) i.e. without any purpose of the man to whom sf. ref. be allowed to meet, be sent, Impf. יְאֻנֶּה Pr 12:21 (c. ל); 3 fs. תְּאֻנֶּה ψ 91:10 (c. אֶל), subj. evil. cause oneself to meet, seek occasion (= seek a quarrel with) sq. ל 2 K 5:7.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 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/1488/579/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Proverbs 12:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.12.21/)

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לֹא־יְאֻנֶּ֣ה לַצַּדִּ֣יק כָּל־אָ֑וֶן וּ֝רְשָׁעִ֗ים מָ֣לְאוּ רָֽע׃

*Word for word:* not it.happens to the righteous any trouble and wicked.\[people\] they.are.full distress

*JPS 1917:* There shall no mischief befall the righteous; but the wicked are filled with evil.

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[Psalms 91:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.91.10/)

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לֹֽא־תְאֻנֶּ֣ה אֵלֶ֣יךָ רָעָ֑ה וְ֝נֶ֗גַע לֹא־יִקְרַ֥ב בְּאָהֳלֶֽךָ׃

*Word for word:* not it.will.happen to you harm and plague not it.will.draw.near in tent your

*JPS 1917:* There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy tent.

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