Sighing
אֲנָחָהStrong’s H0585anachah (a-na-chah)
Appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Anachah is the Hebrew word usually translated “groaning my”, “sighing” and “groaning”. It appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament.
“For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.”
Meaning
- Sighing, groaning (expression of grief or physical distress)
How it's translated
- groaning my 4
- and sighing 2
- by groaning my 1
- with groaning 1
- and sighing my 1
- groaning its 1
- with groaning my 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 4
- Isaiah 3
- Job 2
- Jeremiah 1
- Lamentations 1
5 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Job 23:2Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.
- Psalms 6:6I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.
- Psalms 31:10For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
- Psalms 38:9Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.
- Psalms 102:5By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.
- Isaiah 21:2A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.
Hebrew dictionary
אֲנָחָה anachah · sighing
sighing, groaning (expression of grief or physical distress)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “sighing” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SIGHING, participle present
tense Suffering a deep respiration; taking a long breath.
All definitions and other forms of “sighing”
SIGHING, noun
The act of suffering a deep respiration, or taking a long breath.
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.