To constrain
אֲנַסStrong’s H0598anas (a-nas)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Anas is the Aramaic word usually translated “oppressing”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“O Belteshazzar, master of the magicians, because I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in thee, and no secret troubleth thee, tell me the visions of my dream that I have seen, and the interpretation thereof.”
Meaning
- (P'al) to oppress, compel, constrain
How it's translated
- oppressing 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 1
1 book in all.
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Aramaic dictionary
אֲנַס anas · to constrain
(P'al) to oppress, compel, constrain Aramaic of a.nas (אָנַס "to compel" H0597)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “constrain” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CONSTRAIN, verb transitive
[Latin, to strain, to bind. See Strain.]
In a general sense, to strain; to press; to urge; to drive; to exert force, physical or moral, either in urging to action or in restraining it. Hence,
- To compel or force; to urge with irresistible power, or with a power sufficient to produce the effect.“The spirit within me constraineth me” Job 32:18“I was constrained to appeal to Caesar” Acts 28:19“For the love of Christ constraineth us” 2 Corinthians 5:14
- To confine by fore; to restrain from escape or action; to repress.
- To hold by force; to press; to confine.
- To constringe; to bind.
All definitions
- To tie fast; to bind; to chain; to confine.
- To necessitate.
- To force; to ravish. [Not used.]
- To produce in opposition to nature; as a constrained voice; constrained notes.
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.