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Strong's #584 - אָנַח
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- (Niphal) sigh, groan (in pain or grief), gasp
- moan (of cattle)
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1307) hn (נהה NHh) AC: Guide CO: Rest AB: ?: The pictograph n is a picture of a seed representing continuance, the h is a picture of a wall that separates the inside from the outside. Combined these mean "continue outside". The shepherd would guide his flock to a place of water. Here is water for drinking as well as green grass for pasturing. Once the flock arrives, they are free to rest after the long journey. A guided journey to a place of rest. A sigh of rest. (eng: night - from the German nocht, as the time of rest)
A) hn (נהה NHh) AC: ? CO: Rest AB: ?
Nf2 ) thn (נההת NHhT) - Rest: KJV (8): rest, set, quietness, lighting - Strongs: H5183 (נַחַת)
hf1) ehnm (מנההה MNHhH) - Gift: What is brought to another. [Hebrew and Aramaic] KJV (213): offering, present, gift, oblation, sacrifice, meat - Strongs: H4503 (מִנְחָה), H4504 (מִנְחָה)
C) hna (אנהה ANHh) AC: Sigh CO: ? AB: ?: A sigh of rest.
V) hna (אנהה ANHh) - Sigh: To sigh or groan out of a desire for rest. KJV (12): (vf: Niphal) sigh, groan, mourn - Strongs: H584 (אָנַח)
Nm) na (אנהה ANHh) - I: In the sense of sighing or breathing. [Aramaic only; The plural form of this word meaning, we, is anhnaor anhna] [df: ana hna] KJV (20): I, me, we - Strongs: H576 (אֲנָא), H586 (אֲנַחְנָה)
Nf1 ) ehna (אנההה ANHhH) - Groan: The expression of burden and the desire for rest. KJV (11): sighing, groaning, sigh, mourning - Strongs: H585 (אֲנָחָה)
fm) ihna (אנההי ANHhY) - I: In the sense of sighing or breathing. [The plural form of this word meaning, we, is fnhna, fnhnand fna] [df: ykna yna] KJV (29): I, me, we, ourselves, mine - Strongs: H580 (אֲנוּ), H587 (אֲנַחְנוּ), H589 (אֲנִי), H595 (אָנֹכִי), H5168 (נַחְנוּ)
F) hne (הנהה HNHh) AC: ? CO: Rest AB: ?
Nf1 ) ehne (הנההה HNHhH) - Rest: KJV (1): release - Strongs: H2010 (הֲנָחָה)
H) ehn (נההה NHhH) AC: Guide CO: ? AB: ?
V) ehn (נההה NHhH) - Guide: KJV (39): (vf: Paal, Hiphil) lead, guide, bestow, govern, put, straiten - Strongs: H5148 (נָחָה)
J) hfn (נוהה NWHh) AC: Rest CO: Rest AB: ?: A place of quiet and rest from burdens, work or enemy.
V) hfn (נוהה NWHh) - Rest: KJV (64): (vf: Paal) rest, cease, confederate, down, lay, quiet, remain - Strongs: H5117 (נוּחַ)
Nm) hfn (נוהה NWHh) - Rest: KJV (4): rest - Strongs: H5118 (נוּחַ)
am) hfnm (מנוהה MNWHh) - Rest: KJV (7): rest - Strongs: H4494 (מָנוֹחַ)
kf1) ehfnm (מנוההה MNWHhH) - Rest: KJV (21): rest, comfortable, ease, quiet, still - Strongs: H4496 (מְנֻחָה)
L) hni (ינהה YNHh) AC: Sit CO: Rest AB: ?
V) hni (ינהה YNHh) - Sit: KJV (75): (vf: Paal, Hiphil, Hophal) leave, up, lay, suffer, place, put, set, down, alone, bestow, pacify, still, withdraw, withhold - Strongs: H3240 (יָנַח)
Adopted Roots:
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
Niph`al sigh, groan, mostly in poetry & late (Aramaic אֲנַח, Ethpe`el compare Assyrian [ anâ—u], inh—u, sigh Zim BP 12,30) — Perfect 3 feminine singular נֶאֶנְחָה Lamentations 1:8; Joel 1:18; 3 plural נֶאֶנְחוּ Isaiah 24:7; Imperfect יֵאָנַח Proverbs 29:2 etc.; Imperative הֵאָנַ֯ח֑ Ezekiel 21:11; Participle נֶאְנָ֑ךְ Ezekiel 21:12; נֶאֱנָחָה Lamentations 1:21 etc.; —
1 sigh, in token of grief Isaiah 24:7; Proverbs 29:2; Lamentations 1:4 ("" נוּגוֺתּ) Lamentations 1:21; Ezekiel 21:11 (twice in verse); of Jerusalem Lamentations 1:8; mostly absolute but followed by אַלֿ Ezekiel 9:4 ("" נֶאֱנָק); followed by עַלֿ & אֱלֿ Ezekiel 21:12.
2 in physical distress Lamentations 1:11 ("" בִּקֵּשׁלֶחֶם); Exodus 2:23 followed by מִן by reason of ("" זָעַק).
3 groan of cattle (בְּהֵמָה) Joel 1:18.
אָנַח a root not used in Kal, kindred to the roots אָנָה No. 1, אָנַק, נָאַק.
Niphal, to groan, to sigh, Exodus 2:23; Joel 1:18 (Aram. Ethp. id.). Construed with עַל Ezekiel 21:12, and מִן Exodus 2:23, of the thing which is the cause of the groaning. Hence