# H6031 עָנָה

עָנָה (ʻânâh), Strong’s H6031: to depress literally or figuratively, transitive or intransitive (in various applications, as follows) KJV: abase self, afflict(-ion, self), answer (by mistake for…

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*ʻânâh* — to depress literally or figuratively, transitive or intransitive (in various applications, as follows)

KJV: abase self, afflict(-ion, self), answer (by mistake for H6030 (עָנָה)), chasten self…

Occurs 83 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [עָנָה] vb. be occupied, busied with
- עָנָה vb
- [עָנָה] vb. be bowed down, afflicted
- Qal
- 1 be put down or become low, of song of triumph
- 2 be depressed, downcast
- 3 be afflicted
- Niph.
- 1 humble oneself
- 2 be afflicted
- Pi.
- 1 humble, mishandle, afflict
- 2 humble, a woman by cohabit.
- 3 afflict as a discipline
- 4 humble, weaken
- Pu.
- 1 be afflicted, in discipline by God
- 2 be humbled by fasting
- Hiph. afflict, in discipline
- Hithp.
- 1 humble oneself
- 2 be afflicted
- 3 humble oneself in fasting

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 15:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/15?v=13) — He said to Abram, “Know for sure that your offspring will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will…
- [Genesis 16:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/16?v=6) — But Abram said to Sarai, “Behold, your maid is in your hand. Do to her whatever is good in your eyes.” Sarai dealt…
- [Genesis 16:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/16?v=9) — The LORD’s angel said to her, “Return to your mistress, and submit yourself under her hands.”
- [Genesis 31:50](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/31?v=50) — If you afflict my daughters, or if you take wives in addition to my daughters, no man is with us; behold, God is…
- [Genesis 34:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/34?v=2) — Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her. He took her, lay with her, and humbled her.
- [Exodus 1:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/1?v=11) — Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Pharaoh…
- [Exodus 1:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/1?v=12) — But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out. They started to dread the…
- [Exodus 10:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/10?v=3) — Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, “This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long…
- [Exodus 22:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/22?v=21) — “You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.
- [Exodus 22:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/22?v=22) — If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry;