Original Language Studio
Deuteronomy 8:3
“And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H6031 · Hebrew
- Definition
- to depress literally or figuratively, transitive or intransitive (in various applications, as follows)
- Derivation
- a primitive root (possibly rather identical with H6030 (עָנָה) through the idea of looking down or browbeating);
- KJV renderings
- abase self, afflict(-ion, self), answer (by mistake for H6030 (עָנָה)), chasten self, deal hardly with, defile, exercise, force, gentleness, humble (self), hurt, ravish, sing (by mistake for H6030 (עָנָה)), speak (by mistake for H6030 (עָנָה)), submit self, weaken, [idiom] in any wise.
- Grammar
- וַֽ — conjunction
- יְעַנְּ — verb Piel, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular
- ךָ֮ — suffix (pronominal), 2nd person, masculine, singular
- Usage
- Occurs 83 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 15:13Genesis 16:6Genesis 16:9Genesis 31:50Genesis 34:2
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 עָנָה 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.