עֳנִי oni

Hebrew word for “affliction” · Strong’s H6040 · used 36 times in 36 verses

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Meaning

1) affliction, poverty, misery; 1a) affliction; 1b) poverty

How it is translated

Glosses given for oni in context, with how often each is used:

• affliction 35
• more than affliction 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Job 36 (3), Psalms 119 (3), Lamentations 1 (3), Exodus 3 (2), Job 30 (2), Psalms 107 (2), Lamentations 3 (2), Genesis 16 (1), Genesis 29 (1), Genesis 31 (1)

Forms

• עני 12
• עניי 9
• בעניי 4
• מעני 3
• ענינו 2
• עניך 1
• ענים 1
• בעני 1
• בעניו 1
• מעוני 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with oni more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• רָאָה raah “to see” 15
• לַחַץ lachats “oppression” 3
• זָכַר zakhar “to remember” 5
• שָׁכַח shakhach “to forget” 4
• מָרוֹד marud “wandering” 2
• שָׁמַע shama “to hear” 5
• לוּלֵא lule “unless” 2
• מִצְרַיִם mitsrayim “Egypt” 4
• אַיִן ayin “nothing” 4
• קָרָא qara “to call” 4
• חָלַץ chalats “to rescue” 2
• עָמָל amal “trouble” 2

Key verses

The verses using oni that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Genesis 29:32 — And Leah conceived, and bare a son, and she called his name Reuben: for she said, Surely the LORD hath looked upon my affliction; now therefore my husband will…
• Genesis 31:42 — Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely thou hadst sent me away now empty. God hath seen mine…
• Exodus 3:7 — And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their…
• Exodus 3:17 — And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites,…
• Exodus 4:31 — And the people believed: and when they heard that the LORD had visited the children of Israel, and that he had looked upon their affliction, then they bowed…
• Deuteronomy 16:3 — Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for thou camest forth out of the…
• 1 Samuel 1:11 — And she vowed a vow, and said, O LORD of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thine handmaid,…
• Job 10:15 — If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;
• Psalms 31:7 — I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;
• Psalms 107:10 — Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;
• Lamentations 1:7 — Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the…
• Lamentations 1:9 — Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O LORD, behold my affliction: for…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.