עָנִי ani

Hebrew word for “afflicted” · Strong’s H6041 · used 74 times in 72 verses

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Meaning

1) poor, afflicted, humble, wretched; 1a) poor, needy; 1b) poor and weak; 1c) poor, weak, afflicted, wretched; 1d) humble, lowly

How it is translated

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

• poor 25
• afflicted 14
• poor person 10
• afflicted people 9
• poor people 7
• afflicted person 3
• afflicted one 3
• afflicted ones 2
• have been afflicted 1

Where it is used

Also in 3 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Deuteronomy 24 (3), Psalms 72 (3), Job 24 (2), Job 36 (2), Psalms 10 (2), Psalms 74 (2), Psalms 109 (2), Proverbs 31 (2), Isaiah 3 (2), Isaiah 10 (2)

Forms

• עני 38
• עניים 7
• לעני 6
• עניי 6
• ועני 5
• עניה 3
• העני 2
• לעניך 1
• וענייך 1
• ענייך 1

Words used with it

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

• אֶבְיוֹן evyon “needy” 26
• גָּזַל gazal “to plunder” 6
• דַּל dal “poor” 6
• מִשְׁפָּט mishpat “justice” 8
• יָתוֹם yatom “orphan” 5
• אֲנִי ani “I” 9
• גֵּר ger “sojourner” 5
• עָשַׁק ashaq “to oppress” 4
• יָשַׁע yasah “to save” 5
• אַל al “not” 6
• דִּין din “judgment” 3
• דָּכָא dakah “to crush” 3

Key verses

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

• Psalms 12:5 — For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.
• Psalms 35:10 — All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that…
• Isaiah 14:32 — What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That the LORD hath founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it.
• Isaiah 41:17 — When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake…
• Isaiah 49:13 — Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains: for the LORD hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his…
• Isaiah 54:11 — O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.
• Isaiah 58:7 — Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and…
• Isaiah 66:2 — For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a…
• Ezekiel 16:49 — Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she…
• Amos 8:4 — Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
• Zechariah 7:10 — And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.
• Zechariah 9:9 — Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding…

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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.