ʼânash — H605

Definition

verb

to be frail, feeble, or (figuratively) melancholy

1. to be weak, sick, frail
1. (Qal)
1. to be incurable
2. to be sick
3. desperate, incurable, desperately wicked, woeful, very sick (pass participle) (metaph.)
2. (Niphal) to be sick

Usually translated as

incurable, desperate, desperately wicked, sick, woeful

Origin

a primitive root

Occurrences

ʼânash occurs 9 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: 2 Samuel (1), Job (1), Isaiah (1), Jeremiah (5), Micah (1)

• 2 Samuel 12:15 — And Nathan departed unto his house. And the LORD struck the child that Uriah’s wife bare unto David, and it was very sick (וַיֵּאָנַֽשׁ).
• Job 34:6 — Should I lie against my right? my wound is incurable (אָנ֖וּשׁ) without transgression.
• Isaiah 17:11 — In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate (אָנֽוּשׁ) sorrow.
• Jeremiah 15:18 — Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable (אֲנוּשָׁ֑ה֙), which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail?
• Jeremiah 17:9 — The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked (וְאָנֻ֣שׁ): who can know it?
• Jeremiah 17:16 — As for me, I have not hastened from being a pastor to follow thee: neither have I desired the woeful (אָנ֛וּשׁ) day; thou knowest: that which came out of my lips was right before thee.
• Jeremiah 30:12 — For thus saith the LORD, Thy bruise is incurable (אָנ֣וּשׁ), and thy wound is grievous.
• Jeremiah 30:15 — Why criest thou for thine affliction? thy sorrow is incurable (אָנ֖וּשׁ) for the multitude of thine iniquity: because thy sins were increased, I have done these things unto thee.
• Micah 1:9 — For her wound is incurable (אֲנוּשָׁ֖ה); for it is come unto Judah; he is come unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.