Affliction
עֳנִיStrong’s H6040oni (o-ni)
Appears in 36 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Oni is the Hebrew word usually translated “affliction my”, “affliction” and “affliction of”. It appears in 36 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.”
Meaning
- Affliction, poverty, miseryaffliction · poverty
How it's translated
- affliction my 9
- affliction 9
- affliction of 3
- in affliction my 3
- affliction our 2
- from affliction 2
- affliction your 1
- on affliction my 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 10
- Job 6
- Lamentations 5
- Genesis 4
- Exodus 3
- Deuteronomy 2
12 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 29:32And Leah conceived, and bare a son, and she called his name Reuben: for she said, Surely the LORD hath looked upon my affliction; now therefore my husband will love me.
- Genesis 31:42Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely thou hadst sent me away now empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesternight.
- Genesis 41:52And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.
- Exodus 3:7And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;
- Exodus 3:17And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, unto a land flowing with milk and honey.
- Exodus 4:31And the people believed: and when they heard that the LORD had visited the children of Israel, and that he had looked upon their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped.
All 36 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
עֳנִי oni · affliction
1) affliction, poverty, misery 1a) affliction 1b) poverty
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “affliction” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
AFFLIC'TION, noun
- The state of being afflicted; a state of pain, distress, or grief.
- The cause of continued pain of body or mind, as sickness, losses, calamity, adversity, persecution.“Many are the afflictions of the righteous” Psalms 34:19
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.