To lament
אָנָהStrong’s H0578anah (a-nah)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Anah is the Hebrew word usually translated “lament”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.”
Meaning
- (Qal) to mourn
How it's translated
- and they will lament 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 2
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Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
אָנָה anah · to lament
(Qal) to mourn
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “lament” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LAMENT', verb transitive
To bewail; to mourn for; to bemoan; to deplore.
All definitions and other forms of “lament”
LAMENT', noun
[Latin lamentum.]
Grief or sorrow expressed in complaints or cries; lamentation; a weeping.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.