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To compel

אָנַסStrong’s H0597

anas (a-nas)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Anas is the Hebrew word usually translated “compelled”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“And the drinking was according to the law; none did compel: for so the king had appointed to all the officers of his house, that they should do according to every man’s pleasure.”
Esther 1:8 KJV
Meaning
  1. (Qal) to compel, to constrain
How it's translated
  • compelled 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Esther 1

1 book in all.

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    Hebrew dictionary

    אָנַס anas · to compel

    (Qal) to compel, to constrain Aramaic equivalent: a.nas (אֲנַס "to constrain" H0598)

    From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “compel” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    COMPEL, verb transitive

    1. To drive or urge with force, or irresistibly; to constrain; to oblige; to necessitate, either by physical or moral force.“And they compel one Simon--to bear his cross” Mark 15:21“Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled” Luke 14:23
    2. To force; to take by force, or violence; to seize.
    3. To drive together; to gather; to unite in a crowd or company.
    4. To seize; to overpower; to hold.
    All definitions
    1. To call forth, Latin compeller.

    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.