אָןʼân
אָן: where?, whither?
Pronunciation: awn · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H575
Meanings
a whither? (Genesis 16:8; Genesis 32:18; 2 Samuel 2:1)
b where? (Ruth 2:19)
c any whither (1 Kings 2:36; 1 Kings 2:42; 2 Kings 5:25)
d how long? (Exodus 16:28; Numbers 14:11; Joshua 18:3)
אָן: see below אַי
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 41 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 16:8 The angel said to her, “Hagar, Sarai’s servant, where have you come from, and where are you going?” “I’m running away from my mistress, Sarai,” she replied.
- Genesis 32:17 He gave these instructions to the men leading the first group: “When my brother, Esau, meets you, he will ask, ‘Whose servants are you? Where are you going? Who owns these animals?’
- Genesis 37:30 Then he went back to his brothers and lamented, “The boy is gone! What will I do now?”
- Exodus 16:28 The Lord asked Moses, “How long will these people refuse to obey my commands and instructions?
- Numbers 14:11 And the Lord said to Moses, “How long will these people treat me with contempt? Will they never believe me, even after all the miraculous signs I have done among them?
- Deuteronomy 1:28 Where can we go? Our brothers have demoralized us with their report. They tell us, “The people of the land are taller and more powerful than we are, and their towns are large, with walls rising high into the sky! We even saw giants there—the descendants of Anak!”’
See every passage
- Genesis 16:8, 32:17, 37:30
- Exodus 16:28
- Numbers 14:11
- Deuteronomy 1:28
- Joshua 2:5, 18:3
- Judges 19:17
- Ruth 2:19
- 1 Samuel 10:14
- 2 Samuel 2:1, 13:13
- 1 Kings 2:36, 2:42
- 2 Kings 5:25, 6:6
- Nehemiah 2:16
- Job 8:2, 18:2, 19:2
- Psalms 13:1, 13:2, 62:3, 139:7
- Song of Solomon 6:1
- Isaiah 10:3
- Jeremiah 15:2, 47:6
- Ezekiel 21:16
- Habakkuk 1:2
- Zechariah 2:2, 5:10
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).