To sigh
אָנַחStrong’s H0584anach (a-nach)
Appears in 12 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Anach is the Hebrew word usually translated “groaning”, “groan” and “groaned”. It appears in 12 verses of the Old Testament.
“And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.”
Meaning
- (Niphal) sigh, groan (in pain or grief), gaspmoan (of cattle)
How it's translated
- groaning 4
- you will groan 2
- and they groaned 1
- it sighs 1
- they have groaned 1
- has groaned 1
- who sigh 1
- groan 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Lamentations 4
- Ezekiel 3
- Exodus 1
- Proverbs 1
- Isaiah 1
- Jeremiah 1
7 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Proverbs 29:2When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.
- Isaiah 24:7The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh.
- Jeremiah 22:23O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail!
- Lamentations 1:4The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.
- Lamentations 1:8Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.
- Lamentations 1:11All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I am become vile.
Hebrew dictionary
אָנַח anach · to sigh
1) (Niphal) sigh, groan (in pain or grief), gasp 1a) moan (of cattle)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “sigh” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SIGH, verb intransitive
To inhale a larger quantity of air than usual and immediately expel it; to suffer a single deep respiration. He sighed deeply in his spirit.
All definitions and other forms of “sigh”
SIGH, verb transitive
- To lament; to mourn.
- To express by sighs.
SIGH, noun
A single deep respiration; a long breath; the inhaling of larger quantity of air than usual, and the sudden emission of it. This is an effort of nature to dilate the lungs and give vigor to the circulation of the blood, when the action of the heart and arteries is languid from grief, depression of spirits, weakness or want of exercise. Hence sighs are indications of grief of debility.
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.