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Deuteronomy 22:19
“And they shall amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H6064 · Hebrew
- Definition
- properly, to urge; by implication, to inflict apenalty, specifically, to fine
- Derivation
- a primitive root;
- KJV renderings
- amerce, condemn, punish, [idiom] surely.
- Grammar
- וְ — conjunction
- עָנְשׁ֨וּ — verb Qal, sequential perfect, 3rd person, common, plural
- Usage
- Occurs 9 times in the Hebrew Bible.Exodus 21:22Exodus 21:222 Chronicles 36:3Proverbs 17:26Proverbs 21:11
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read עָנַשׁ here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.