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title: עֲנֹוק — neck · The Tanakh dictionary
description: עֲנֹוק (6061), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: neck. BDB 1906: neck epith. gent. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# עֲנֹוק

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«עֲנֹוק» in the Tanakh dictionary: **neck** — 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:** 6061 · **BDB:** עֲנָק

### Glosses

Anak (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

neck [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6061/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

neck epith. gent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6061/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] neck, only in epith. gent. בְּנֵי הָעֲנָק long-necked (tall) men, early giant people about Hebron and in Philistia, Ενακ, Εναχ, Jos 15:14 (JE) = Ju 1:20, without art. Nu 13:33 (JE), Dt 9:2; also יְלִידַי הָע׳ Nu 13:22, 28; Jos 15:14 (all JE); called also עֲנָקִים long-necks, Ενακειμ, Jos 14:12, 15 (JE), 11:21, 22 (D), Dt 2:10, 11, 21 + Je 47:5 (read עֲנָקִים for MT עִמְקָם), and perhaps 1 Ch 12:16 (v. עֵמֶק ad fin.); בְּנֵי עֲנָקִים 1:28 (𝔊 γίγαντες, cf. Nu 13:33), 9:2; עֲנָק later (erron.) as eponym. ancestor of Anaḳim Jos 15:13 = עֲנוֹק 21:11 (both P).—Vid. especially MeyZAW i (1881), 139 GFM Ju 1:10, 20 CheEncy. Bib. ANAK.

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Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech differs, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (4 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech differs, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «עֲנֹוק» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6061/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Joshua 21:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.21.11/)

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וַיִּתְּנ֨וּ לָהֶ֜ם אֶת־קִרְיַת֩ אַרְבַּ֨ע קִרְיַת֩ אַרְבַּ֨ע אֲבִ֧י הָֽעֲנ֛וֹק הִ֥יא חֶבְר֖וֹן בְּהַ֣ר יְהוּדָ֑ה וְאֶת־מִגְרָשֶׁ֖הָ סְבִיבֹתֶֽיהָ׃

*Word for word:* and they.gave to them (et) Kiriath Arba the.father of.(the) Anak that \[is\].Hebron in the.hill.country of.Judah and (et) lands its.pasture around it

*JPS 1917:* And they gave them Kiriath-arba, which Arba was the father of Anak — the same is Hebron — in the hill-country of Judah, with the open land round about it.

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