Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
to reject
Usage: 1) to cast off, reject, spurn 1a) (Qal) to reject 1b) (Hiphil) to forcefully reject someone
Zanach means “reject” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G2186 — ephistemi (“present”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H2186 זָנַח (zanach) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. zanach (zaw-nakh') v. 1. cast away (off), remove far away (off) [a primitive root meaning to push aside, i.e. reject, forsake, fail] It has 20 linked Bible usages across 7 books. Visible English usage signals include cast, castest, away, and off. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
zanach (zaw-nakh') v. 1. cast away (off), remove far away (off) [a primitive root meaning to push aside, i.e. reject, forsake, fail]
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to reject
Usage: 1) to cast off, reject, spurn 1a) (Qal) to reject 1b) (Hiphil) to forcefully reject someone
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render zanach, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
20 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.
For the Levites left their suburbs and their possession, and came to Judah and Jerusalem: for Jeroboam and his sons had cast them off from executing the priest's office unto the LORD:
Moreover all the vessels, which king Ahaz in his reign did cast away in his transgression, have we prepared and sanctified, and, behold, they are before the altar of the LORD.
First 20 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H2186.
And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.
For the Levites left their suburbs and their possession, and came to Judah and Jerusalem: for Jeroboam and his sons had cast them off from executing the priest's office unto the LORD:
Moreover all the vessels, which king Ahaz in his reign did cast away in his transgression, have we prepared and sanctified, and, behold, they are before the altar of the LORD.
For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.
Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been displeased; O turn thyself to us again.
Wilt not thou, O God, which hadst cast us off? and thou, O God, which didst not go out with our armies?
O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?
Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more?
LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?
But thou hast cast off and abhorred, thou hast been wroth with thine anointed.
Wilt not thou, O God, who hast cast us off? and wilt not thou, O God, go forth with our hosts?
And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.
The LORD hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the LORD, as in the day of a solemn feast.
And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.
For the LORD will not cast off for ever:
Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him.
Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocency?
And I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph, and I will bring them again to place them; for I have mercy upon them: and they shall be as though I had not cast them off: for I am the LORD their God, and will hear them.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H2186, grouped by book.
Zanach (Strong's H2186) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "reject". zanach (zaw-nakh') v. 1. cast away (off), remove far away (off) [a primitive root meaning to push aside, i.e. reject, forsake, fail]
This page currently indexes 20 linked usages for Strong's H2186 across 7 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H2186 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as cast, castest, away, and off. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.