עָנַןʻânan
עָנַן: Pi`el: bring clouds (Genesis 9:14)
Pronunciation: aw-nan' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6049
Meanings
עָנַן: Po`el: practice soothsaying, probably denominative, but original meaning dubious (Isaiah 2:6; 2 Kings 21:6; 2 Chronicles 33:6)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 11 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 9:14 When I send clouds over the earth, the rainbow will appear in the clouds,
- Leviticus 19:26 “Do not eat meat that has not been drained of its blood. “Do not practice fortune-telling or witchcraft.
- Deuteronomy 18:10 For example, never sacrifice your son or daughter as a burnt offering. And do not let your people practice fortune-telling, or use sorcery, or interpret omens, or engage in witchcraft,
- Deuteronomy 18:14 The nations you are about to displace consult sorcerers and fortune-tellers, but the Lord your God forbids you to do such things.”
- Judges 9:37 But again Gaal said, “No, people are coming down from the hills. And another group is coming down the road past the Diviners’ Oak.”
- 2 Kings 21:6 Manasseh also sacrificed his own son in the fire. He practiced sorcery and divination, and he consulted with mediums and psychics. He did much that was evil in the Lord’s sight, arousing his anger.
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).