Confiscation
עֲנָשׁStrong’s H6065anash (a-nash)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Anash is the Aramaic word usually translated “confiscation of”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And whosoever will not do the law of thy God, and the law of the king, let judgment be executed speedily upon him, whether it be unto death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.”
Meaning
- (CLBL) to fine
- (BDB/TWOT) confiscation, fining, amercing
How it's translated
- to confiscation of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezra 1
1 book in all.
Related words
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Aramaic dictionary
עֲנָשׁ anash · confiscation
v 1) (CLBL) to fine 2) (BDB/TWOT) confiscation, fining, amercing
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “confiscation” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CONFISCATION, noun
The act of condemning as forfeited, and adjudging to the public treasury; as the goods of a criminal who has committed a public offense.
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.