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title: עָנַן — bring clouds · The Tanakh dictionary
description: עָנַן (lemma:עָנַן), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: bring clouds. BDB 1906: vb. denom. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# עָנַן

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«עָנַן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **bring clouds** — 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:** lemma:עָנַן · **BDB:** עָנַן

### Glosses

I (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

bring clouds [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b8_5e0_5b7_5df/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. denom. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b8_5e0_5b7_5df/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. denom. Inf. cstr. sf. c. acc. cogn. בְּעַנְנִי ע׳ עַל־הָאָרֶץ Gn 9:14 (P) when I bring clouds, etc.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «עָנַן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b8_5e0_5b7_5df/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Genesis 9:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.9.14/)

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וְהָיָ֕ה בְּעַֽנְנִ֥י עָנָ֖ן עַל־הָאָ֑רֶץ וְנִרְאֲתָ֥ה הַקֶּ֖שֶׁת בֶּעָנָֽן׃

*Word for word:* and it.will.be when I bring.cloud cloud over the earth and it.will.be.seen the bow in the cloud\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* And it shall come to pass, when I bring clouds over the earth, and the bow is seen in the cloud,

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