To groan
אָנַקStrong’s H0602anaq (a-naq)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Anaq is the Hebrew word usually translated “groan”, “who groan” and “groaning”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“Wherefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will do judgment upon her graven images: and through all her land the wounded shall groan.”
Meaning
- To cry, groan(Qal) to cry, lament · (Niphal) to make lamentation
How it's translated
- he will groan 1
- and who groan 1
- groaning 1
- when groan 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 3
- Jeremiah 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Ezekiel 9:4And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.
- Ezekiel 24:17Forbear to cry, make no mourning for the dead, bind the tire of thine head upon thee, and put on thy shoes upon thy feet, and cover not thy lips, and eat not the bread of men.
- Ezekiel 26:15Thus saith the Lord GOD to Tyrus; Shall not the isles shake at the sound of thy fall, when the wounded cry, when the slaughter is made in the midst of thee?
Hebrew dictionary
אָנַק anaq · to groan
1) to cry, groan 1a) (Qal) to cry, lament 1b) (Niphal) to make lamentation
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “groan” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
GROAN, verb intransitive
[Latin grunnio; Heb. to cry out, to groan; Latin rana, a frog.]
- To breathe with a deep murmuring sound; to utter a mournful voice, as in pain or sorrow.“For we that are in this tabernacle, do groan being burdened” 2 Corinthians 5:4
- To sigh; to be oppressed or afflicted; or to complain of oppression.
All definitions and other forms of “groan”
GROAN, noun
A deep mournful sound, uttered in pain, sorrow or anguish.
- Any low, rumbling sound; as the groans of roaring wind.
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.