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תַּאֲנָהStrong’s H8385taanah (ta-a-nah)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Taanah is the Hebrew word usually translated “occasion” and “heat its”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“But his father and his mother knew not that it was of the LORD, that he sought an occasion against the Philistines: for at that time the Philistines had dominion over Israel.”
Meaning
- Occasion, time of heat or oestrous or copulation, sexual drive (of animal)
- Occasion, opportunity (for a quarrel)
How it's translated
- an occasion 1
- heat its 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Judges 1
- Jeremiah 1
2 books in all.
Hebrew dictionary
תַּאֲנָה taanah · estrous
occasion, time of heat or oestrous or copulation, sexual drive (of animal)
תֹּאֲנָה toanah · opportunity
occasion, opportunity (for a quarrel)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “occasion” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
OCCA'SION, noun
s as z. [Latin occasio, from oceido, to fall; ob and cado.]
- Properly, a falling, happening or coming to; an occurrence, casualty, incident; something distinct from the ordinary course or regular orders of things.
- Opportunity; convenience; favorable time, season or circumstances.“Use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh” Galatians 5:13“Sin taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me” Romans 7:11
- Accidental cause; incident, event or fact giving rise to something else.
- Incidental need; casual exigency; opportunity accompanied with need or demand.
All definitions and other forms of “occasion”
OCCA'SION, verb transitive
- To cause incidentally; to cause; to produce.
- To influence; to cause.
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.