עֳנִיʻŏnîy
affliction, poverty
Pronunciation: on-ee' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6040
Meanings
1. affliction (Job 36:15; Job 36:21; Psalms 44:25)
2. poverty (1 Chronicles 22:14)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 36 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 16:11 And the angel also said, “You are now pregnant and will give birth to a son. You are to name him Ishmael (which means ‘God hears’), for the Lord has heard your cry of distress.
- Genesis 29:32 So Leah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Reuben, for she said, “The Lord has noticed my misery, and now my husband will love me.”
- Genesis 31:42 In fact, if the God of my father had not been on my side—the God of Abraham and the fearsome God of Isaac—you would have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen your abuse and my hard work. That is why he appeared to you last night and rebuked you!”
- Genesis 41:52 Joseph named his second son Ephraim, for he said, “God has made me fruitful in this land of my grief.”
- Exodus 3:7 Then the Lord told him, “I have certainly seen the oppression of my people in Egypt. I have heard their cries of distress because of their harsh slave drivers. Yes, I am aware of their suffering.
- Exodus 3:17 I have promised to rescue you from your oppression in Egypt. I will lead you to a land flowing with milk and honey—the land where the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites now live.”’
See every passage
- Genesis 16:11, 29:32, 31:42, 41:52
- Exodus 3:7, 3:17, 4:31
- Deuteronomy 16:3, 26:7
- 1 Samuel 1:11
- 2 Kings 14:26
- 1 Chronicles 22:14
- Nehemiah 9:9
- Job 10:15, 30:16, 30:27, 36:8, 36:15, 36:21
- Psalms 9:13, 25:18, 31:7, 44:24, 88:9, 107:10, 107:41, 119:50, 119:92, 119:153
- Proverbs 31:5
- Isaiah 48:10
- Lamentations 1:3, 1:7, 1:9, 3:1, 3:19
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).