עֲנָב
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Anab
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
Supported# Analysis of עֲנָב (Anab) — H6024 Based on the lexical data provided, עֲנָב (anab) appears in the Hebrew Bible only twice, which severely limits our ability to establish its full semantic range or usage patterns. The lemma is identified simply as "Anab," which suggests it may be a proper noun rather than a common word with a definable meaning. Without access to the specific biblical contexts where these two occurrences appear, or to a detailed definition beyond the transliteration, we cannot determine whether this term refers to a place, person, or object. The extremely limited attestation—just two instances in the entire Hebrew Bible—indicates this was either a specialized term with narrow application or a word that fell out of common usage during the periods when biblical texts were composed and transmitted. For a general understanding of biblical vocabulary, such rare terms are difficult to interpret with confidence, as frequency of use typically correlates with our ability to establish clear definitions through contextual analysis. To properly understand this term's meaning and significance would require examination of the actual biblical passages where it appears, comparison with related Hebrew words, and consultation of the original contexts—information not contained in the lexical summary provided here.
Source data & methodology
Occurrences in Scripture
2 total occurrences across the text