Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
to lament
Usage: (Qal) to mourn
Anah means “lament” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G578 — apoblepo (“have respect”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H578 אָנָה (anah) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. anah (aw-naw') v. 1. to groan [a primitive root] It has 2 linked Bible usages across 1 book. Visible English usage signals include lament. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
anah (aw-naw') v. 1. to groan [a primitive root] KJV: lament, mourn.
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H578. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to lament
Usage: (Qal) to mourn
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render anah, 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.
2 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.
The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.
First 2 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H578.
And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.
The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H578, grouped by book.
Anah (Strong's H578) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "lament". anah (aw-naw') v. 1. to groan [a primitive root]
This page currently indexes 2 linked usages for Strong's H578 across 1 book.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H578 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as lament. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.