Be incurable
אָנַשׁStrong’s H0605anash (a-nash)
Appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Anash is the Hebrew word usually translated “incurable” and “was sick”. It appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Nathan departed unto his house. And the LORD struck the child that Uriah’s wife bare unto David, and it was very sick.”
Meaning
- To be weak, sick, frail(Qal) · (Niphal) to be sick
How it's translated
- incurable 7
- and he was sick 1
- and incurable 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 5
- 2 Samuel 1
- Job 1
- Isaiah 1
- Micah 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Job 34:6Should I lie against my right? my wound is incurable without transgression.
- Isaiah 17:11In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
- Jeremiah 15:18Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail?
- Jeremiah 17:9The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
- Jeremiah 17:16As for me, I have not hastened from being a pastor to follow thee: neither have I desired the woeful day; thou knowest: that which came out of my lips was right before thee.
- Jeremiah 30:12For thus saith the LORD, Thy bruise is incurable, and thy wound is grievous.
Hebrew dictionary
אָנַשׁ anash · be incurable
1) to be weak, sick, frail 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to be incurable 1a2) to be sick 1a3) desperate, incurable, desperately wicked, woeful, very sick (pass participle) (metaph.) 1b) (Niphal) to be sick
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “incurable” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
INCU'RABLE, adjective
- That cannot be cured; not admitting of cure; beyond the power of skill or medicine; as an incurable disease.
- Not admitting remedy or correction; irremediable; remediless; as incurable evils.
All definitions and other forms of “incurable”
INCU'RABLE, noun
A person diseased beyond the reach of cure.
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.