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title: אָנַס — compel · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אָנַס (597), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: compel. BDB 1906: vb. compel, constrain. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אָנַס

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«אָנַס» in the Tanakh dictionary: **compel** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 597 · **BDB:** אָנַס

### Glosses

\[one.who\].compelled (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

compel [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/597/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. compel, constrain [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/597/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. compel, constrain (late, often Mish. id., Aramaic אֲנַס, ܐܶܢܰܣ )— Pt. אֵין אֹנֵס viz., to drink Est 1:8 (‖ כִּרְצוֹן אִישׁ וָאִישׁ).

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אָנַס» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/597/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Esther 1:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.1.8/)

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וְהַשְּׁתִיָּ֥ה כַדָּ֖ת אֵ֣ין אֹנֵ֑ס כִּי־כֵ֣ן ׀ יִסַּ֣ד הַמֶּ֗לֶךְ עַ֚ל כָּל־רַ֣ב בֵּית֔וֹ לַעֲשׂ֖וֹת כִּרְצ֥וֹן אִישׁ־וָאִֽישׁ׃

*Word for word:* and the drinking \[was\].according to the.law there.\[was\].not \[one.who\].compelled (dm) thus he.had.appointed the king on every (the).chief his.house his to do according to.\[the\].pleasure of.man and man

*JPS 1917:* And the drinking was according to the law; none did compel; for so the king had appointed to all the officers of his house, that they should do according to every man's pleasure.

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