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To cloud

עָנַןStrong’s H6049

anan (a-nan)

Appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Anan is the Hebrew word usually translated “soothsayer”, “practiced soothsaying” and “soothsayers”. It appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament.

“And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:”
Genesis 9:14 KJV
Meaning
  1. (Piel) to make appear, produce, bring (clouds)
  2. (Poel) to practise soothsaying, conjureto observe times, practice soothsaying or spiritism or magic or augury or witchcraft · soothsayer, enchanter, sorceress, diviner, fortuneteller, barbarian, Meonenim (participle)
  3. This name means tree, great tree, terebinth
How it's translated
  • a soothsayer 2
  • and he practiced soothsaying 2
  • and soothsayers 2
  • when bring cloud i 1
  • you will practice soothsaying 1
  • soothsayers 1
  • soothsayer 1
  • soothsayers your 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Deuteronomy 2
  • Isaiah 2
  • Genesis 1
  • Leviticus 1
  • Judges 1
  • 2 Kings 1

9 books in all.

Related words
Explore in Scripture
All 11 verses, by book
Genesis 1
9:14
Leviticus 1
19:26
Deuteronomy 2
18:1018:14
Judges 1
9:37
2 Kings 1
21:6
2 Chronicles 1
33:6
Isaiah 2
2:657:3
Jeremiah 1
27:9
Micah 1
5:12
Hebrew dictionary

עָנַן anan · to cloud

(Piel) to make appear, produce, bring (clouds)

עָנַן anan · to divine

1) (Poel) to practise soothsaying, conjure 1a) to observe times, practice soothsaying or spiritism or magic or augury or witchcraft 1b) soothsayer, enchanter, sorceress, diviner, fortuneteller, barbarian, Meonenim (participle)

אֵלוֹן elon · (Diviners') Oak

This name means tree, great tree, terebinth Combined with a.nan (עָנַן "Diviners'" H6049)

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “cloud” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

CLOUD, noun

[I have not found this word in any other language. The sense is obvious--a collection.]

  1. A collection f visible vapor, or watery particles, suspended in the atmosphere, at some altitude.“I do set my bow in the cloud” Genesis 9:13“Behold, a white cloud” Revelation 14:14
  2. A state of obscurity or darkness.
  3. A collection of smoke, or a dense collection of dust, rising or floating in the air; as a cloud of dust.
  4. The dark or varied colors, in veins or spots, on stones or other bodies, are called clouds.
All definitions and other forms of “cloud”
  1. A great multitude; a vast collection.“Seeing we are encompassed with so great a cloud of witnesses” Hebrews 12:1

CLOUD, verb transitive

To overspread with a cloud or clouds; as, the sky is clouded; clouds intercept the rays of the sun. Hence,

  1. To obscure; to darken; as, to cloud the day, or truth, or reason.
  2. To darken in veins or spots; to variegate with colors; as clouded marble.
  3. To make of a gloomy aspect; to give the appearance of sullenness.
  4. To sully; to tarnish.

CLOUD, verb intransitive

To grow cloudy; to become obscure with clouds; sometimes followed by over; as, the sky clouds over.

    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.