אָנַשׁʼânash
be weak, sick
Pronunciation: aw-nash' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H605
Meanings
Qal: incurable (Job 34:6; Jeremiah 15:18; Micah 1:9)
Niph`al: be sick (2 Samuel 12:15)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 9 times in the Bible.
- 2 Samuel 12:15 After Nathan returned to his home, the Lord sent a deadly illness to the child of David and Uriah’s wife.
- Job 34:6 I am innocent, but they call me a liar. My suffering is incurable, though I have not sinned.’
- Isaiah 17:11 They may sprout on the day you set them out; yes, they may blossom on the very morning you plant them, but you will never pick any grapes from them. Your only harvest will be a load of grief and unrelieved pain.
- Jeremiah 15:18 Why then does my suffering continue? Why is my wound so incurable? Your help seems as uncertain as a seasonal brook, like a spring that has gone dry.”
- Jeremiah 17:9 “The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is?
- Jeremiah 17:16 Lord, I have not abandoned my job as a shepherd for your people. I have not urged you to send disaster. You have heard everything I’ve said.
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).