To ornament
עָנַקStrong’s H6059anaq (a-naq)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Anaq is the Hebrew word usually translated “certainly”, “provide” and “necklace them”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress: of that wherewith the LORD thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him.”
Meaning
- To serve as a necklace, adorn with a neck ornament(Qal) to serve as a necklace · (Hiphil) to make a necklace
How it's translated
- certainly 1
- you will provide 1
- a necklace them 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 1
- Psalms 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
עָנַק anaq · to ornament
1) to serve as a necklace, adorn with a neck ornament 1a) (Qal) to serve as a necklace 1b) (Hiphil) to make a necklace
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “ornament” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
OR'NAMENT, noun
[Latin ornamentum, from orno, to adorn. Varro informs us that this was primitively osnamentum; but this is improbable. See Adorn.]
- That which embellishes; something which, added to another thing, renders it more beautiful to the eye.
- In architecture, ornaments are sculpture or carved work.
- Embellishment; decoration; additional beauty.“- The ornament of a meek and quiet spirit which is in the sight of God of great price” 1 Peter 3:4
All definitions and other forms of “ornament”
OR'NAMENT, verb transitive
To adorn; to deck; to embellish.
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.