STRONGS NUMBER H579


Word Summary
anah: to be opportune, to meet, encounter opportunely
Original Word: אָנָה
Transliteration: anah
Phonetic Spelling: (aw-naw')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to be opportune, to meet, encounter opportunely
Meaning: to be opportune, to meet, encounter opportunely
Strong's Concordance
befall, deliver, happen, seek a quarrel

A primitive root (perhaps rather identical with 'anah through the idea of contraction in anguish); to approach; hence, to meet in various senses -- befall, deliver, happen, seek a quarrel.

see HEBREW 'anah

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H579. anah

III. [אָנָה‎] verb be opportune, meet, encounter opportunely (Arabic the right time is come, or it is come to the right time, or to maturity, or is opportune).

Pi`el Perfect אִנָּהExodus 21:13 cause (or allow) to meet in א ׳הָאֱלֹהִים בְיָדוֺ‎ (object omitted), i.e. without any purpose of the man to whom suffix Ref.

Pu`al be allowed to meet, be sent, Imperfect יְאֻנֶּהProverbs 12:21 (with ל‎); 3 feminine singular תְּאֻנֶּהPsalm 91:10 (with אֶל‎), subject evil.

Hithpa`el cause oneself to meet, seek occasion (= seek a quarrel with) followed by ל2 Kings 5:7.