We
אֲנַ֫חְנָאStrong’s H0586anachna (a-nach-na)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Anachna is the Aramaic word usually translated “we”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter.”
Meaning
- We (first pers.
How it's translated
- we 4
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezra 2
- Daniel 2
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 3:17In contextIf it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king.
- Ezra 4:16We certify the king that, if this city be builded again, and the walls thereof set up, by this means thou shalt have no portion on this side the river.
- Ezra 5:11And thus they returned us answer, saying, We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and build the house that was builded these many years ago, which a great king of Israel builded and set up.
Aramaic dictionary
אֲנַ֫חְנָא anachna · we
we (first pers. pl.) Aramaic of a.nach.nu (אֲנַ֫חְנוּ "we" H0587)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “we” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WE, pronoun
plural of I; or rather a different word, denoting the person speaking and another or others with him. I and John, the speaker calls we or I and John and Thomas; or I and many others. In the objective case, us. we is used to express men in general, including the speaker.
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.