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Lexicon :: Strong's H6049 - ʿānan

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עָנַן
Transliteration
ʿānan
Pronunciation
aw-nan'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 1655,1656

Strong’s Definitions

עָנַן ʻânan, aw-nan'; a primitive root; to cover; used only as a denominative from H6051, to cloud over; figuratively, to act covertly, i.e. practise magic:—× bring, enchanter, Meonemin, observe(-r of) times, soothsayer, sorcerer.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 11x

The KJV translates Strong's H6049 in the following manner: observer of times (5x), soothsayer (2x), bring (1x), sorceress (1x), enchanter (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 11x
The KJV translates Strong's H6049 in the following manner: observer of times (5x), soothsayer (2x), bring (1x), sorceress (1x), enchanter (1x).

  1. (Piel) to make appear, produce, bring (clouds)

  2. (Poel) to practise soothsaying, conjure

    1. to observe times, practice soothsaying or spiritism or magic or augury or witchcraft

    2. soothsayer, enchanter, sorceress, diviner, fortuneteller, barbarian, Meonenim (participle)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
עָנַן ʻânan, aw-nan'; a primitive root; to cover; used only as a denominative from H6051, to cloud over; figuratively, to act covertly, i.e. practise magic:—× bring, enchanter, Meonemin, observe(-r of) times, soothsayer, sorcerer.
STRONGS H6049: Abbreviations
† [עָנַן] verb denominative
Pi. Infinitive construct suffix with accusative of congnate meaning with verb עַלהָֿאָרֶץ בְּעַנְנִי ע׳ Genesis 9:14 (P) when I bring clouds, etc.

† II. [עָנַן] verb
Po`. practice soothsaying (probably denominative, but original meaning dubious; connection with I. עָנָן (DeIsaiah 2:6) now generally abandoned; LöwZMG xxxi (1877), 539 compare עַיִן eye, so WeSkizzen iii. 148 (but see below); RSJPhil xiv (1885), 119 f. compare Arabic bdb077801 nasal twang, hum of insects, whence diviners as crooning; Ew Gerber31of diviner as interpreting hum of insects, whisper of leaves, etc.; WeHeid. 2, 204 now compare bdb077802 appear, i. e. dealers in phenomena); — Perfect 3rd person masculine singular consecutive וְעוֺנֵן 2 Kings 21:6 2 Chronicles 33:6; Imperfect 2nd person masculine plural וְלֹא תְעוֺנֵ֑נוּ Leviticus 19:26 (H); Participle as substantive מְעוֺנֵן Deuteronomy 18:10 (forbidden), plural מְעֹנְנִים Deuteronomy 18:14, מְעוֺ׳ Micah 5:11, אֵלוֺן מְעוֺנְנִים Judges 9:37 (see I. אֵלוֺן; seat of an oracle, compare RSSem i. 179 2nd ed. 196); also (without מְ, compare Sta§ 233 Köi. 349) עֹנְנִים Isaiah 2:6, suffix עֹנְנֵיכֶם Jeremiah 27:9; feminine singular in בְּנֵי עֹנְנָה Isaiah 57:3 sons of a soothsaying woman, figurative of apostates. — see H3784 כִּשֵּׁף, II. [נָחַשׁ], [קָסַם].
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

9:14

Leviticus

19:26

Deuteronomy

18:10; 18:14

Judges

9:37

2 Kings

21:6

2 Chronicles

33:6

Isaiah

2:6; 2:6; 57:3

Jeremiah

27:9

Micah

5:11

H6049

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H6049 matches the Hebrew עָנַן (ʿānan),
which occurs 11 times in 11 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 9:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:14 - When I bring clouds over the earth and the bow is seen in the clouds,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 19:26

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:26 - “You shall not eat any flesh with the blood in it. You shall not interpret omens or tell fortunes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 18:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:10 - There shall not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering,[fn] anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 18:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:14 - for these nations, which you are about to dispossess, listen to fortune-tellers and to diviners. But as for you, the LORD your God has not allowed you to do this.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:37

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:37 - Gaal spoke again and said, “Look, people are coming down from the center of the land, and one company is coming from the direction of the Diviners’ Oak.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 21:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:6 - And he burned his son as an offering[fn] and used fortune-telling and omens and dealt with mediums and with necromancers. He did much evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking him to anger.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 33:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:6 - And he burned his sons as an offering in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, and used fortune-telling and omens and sorcery, and dealt with mediums and with necromancers. He did much evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking him to anger.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 2:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:6 - For you have rejected your people,
the house of Jacob,
because they are full of things from the east
and of fortune-tellers like the Philistines,
and they strike hands with the children of foreigners.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 57:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:3 - But you, draw near,
sons of the sorceress,
offspring of the adulterer and the loose woman.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 27:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:9 - So do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your dreamers, your fortune-tellers, or your sorcerers, who are saying to you, ‘You shall not serve the king of Babylon.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 5:12

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:12 - and I will cut off sorceries from your hand,
and you shall have no more tellers of fortunes;
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