Afflicted
עָנִיStrong’s H6041ani (a-ni)
Appears in 72 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ani is the Hebrew word usually translated “poor”, “afflicted” and “afflicted of”. It appears in 72 verses of the Old Testament.
“And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.”
Meaning
- Poor, afflicted, humble, wretchedpoor, needy · poor and weak · poor, weak, afflicted, wretched · humble, lowly
How it's translated
- poor 21
- afflicted 20
- and poor 5
- afflicted of 4
- the poor 3
- o afflicted 3
- for the poor 2
- an afflicted 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 27
- Isaiah 13
- Job 6
- Proverbs 5
- Deuteronomy 4
- Ezekiel 4
15 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Zechariah 9:9In contextRejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.
- Zechariah 11:7In contextAnd I will feed the flock of slaughter, even you, O poor of the flock. And I took unto me two staves; the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bands; and I fed the flock.
- Zechariah 11:11In contextAnd it was broken in that day: and so the poor of the flock that waited upon me knew that it was the word of the LORD.
- Exodus 22:25If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.
- Leviticus 19:10And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger: I am the LORD your God.
- Leviticus 23:22And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I am the LORD your God.
All 72 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
עָנִי ani · afflicted
1) poor, afflicted, humble, wretched 1a) poor, needy 1b) poor and weak 1c) poor, weak, afflicted, wretched 1d) humble, lowly
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “afflicted” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
AFFLICT'ED, participle passive
Affected with continued or often repeated pain, either of body or mind; suffering grief or distress, of any kind; followed by at, by or with; as, afflicted at the loss of a child, by the rheumatism, or with losses.
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.