עֲנָהʻănâh
answer
Pronunciation: an-aw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6032
Meanings
Pe`al: active, answered and said (Daniel 5:10; Daniel 2:7; Daniel 2:5)
1. answer, make reply, to something said (Daniel 2:5; Daniel 2:7; Daniel 2:8)
2. respond, to occasion, speak in view of a situation (Daniel 2:15; Daniel 2:20; Daniel 2:26)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 30 times in the Bible.
- Daniel 2:5 But the king said to the astrologers, “I am serious about this. If you don’t tell me what my dream was and what it means, you will be torn limb from limb, and your houses will be turned into heaps of rubble!
- Daniel 2:7 They said again, “Please, Your Majesty. Tell us the dream, and we will tell you what it means.”
- Daniel 2:8 The king replied, “I know what you are doing! You’re stalling for time because you know I am serious when I say,
- Daniel 2:10 The astrologers replied to the king, “No one on earth can tell the king his dream! And no king, however great and powerful, has ever asked such a thing of any magician, enchanter, or astrologer!
- Daniel 2:15 He asked Arioch, “Why has the king issued such a harsh decree?” So Arioch told him all that had happened.
- Daniel 2:20 He said, “Praise the name of God forever and ever, for he has all wisdom and power.
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).