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title: עֲנָק — neck · The Tanakh dictionary
description: עֲנָק (6062), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 17 times: neck. BDB 1906: neck epith. gent. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# עֲנָק

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«עֲנָק» 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 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 17 times · **Key:** 6062 · **BDB:** עֲנָק

### Glosses

Anakites (7); Anak (6); of.Anak (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

neck [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6062/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

neck epith. gent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6062/#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: headword, part of speech agrees, 14 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «עֲנָק» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6062/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Deuteronomy 2:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.2.11/)

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רְפָאִ֛ים יֵחָשְׁב֥וּ אַף־הֵ֖ם כָּעֲנָקִ֑ים וְהַמֹּ֣אָבִ֔ים יִקְרְא֥וּ לָהֶ֖ם אֵמִֽים׃

*Word for word:* Rephaites they.were.regarded also they like the Anakites and the Moabites they.called (to) them Emites

*JPS 1917:* these also are accounted Rephaim, as the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim.

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[Deuteronomy 2:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.2.10/)

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הָאֵמִ֥ים לְפָנִ֖ים יָ֣שְׁבוּ בָ֑הּ עַ֣ם גָּד֥וֹל וְרַ֛ב וָרָ֖ם כָּעֲנָקִֽים׃

*Word for word:* the Emites formerly they.dwelt in it a.people great and numerous and lofty like the Anakites

*JPS 1917:* The Emim dwelt therein aforetime, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim;

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