עָנָה ʻânâh

Meaning

properly, to eye or (generally) to heed, i.e. pay attention; by implication, to respond; by extension to begin to speak; specifically to sing, shout, testify, announce

In the King James Version: give account, afflict (by mistake for H6031 (עָנָה)), (cause to, give) answer, bring low (by mistake for H6031 (עָנָה)), cry, hear, Leannoth, lift up, say, [idiom] scholar, (give a) shout, sing (together by course), speak, testify, utter, (bear) witness. See also H1042 (בֵּית עֲנוֹת), H1043 (בֵּית עֲנָת).

Derivation: a primitive root;

Where it is used

• 1 Kings 18:29 Midday passed, and they kept on raving until the time of the evening sacrifice. But there was no response; no one answered, no one paid attention.
• 1 Kings 18:37 Answer me, O LORD! Answer me, so that this people will know that You, the LORD, are God, and that You have turned their hearts back again.”
• 1 Kings 20:4 And the king of Israel replied, “Just as you say, my lord the king: I am yours, along with all that I have.”
• 1 Kings 20:11 And the king of Israel replied, “Tell him: ‘The one putting on his armor should not boast like one taking it off.’”
• 2 Kings 1:10 Elijah answered the captain, “If I am a man of God, may fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty men.” And fire came down from heaven and consumed the captain and his fifty men.
• 2 Kings 1:11 So the king sent to Elijah another captain with his fifty men. And the captain said to Elijah, “Man of God, the king declares, ‘Come down at once!’”
• 2 Kings 1:12 Again Elijah replied, “If I am a man of God, may fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty men.” And the fire of God came down from heaven and consumed the captain and his fifty men.
• 2 Kings 3:11 But Jehoshaphat asked, “Is there no prophet of the LORD here? Let us inquire of the LORD through him.” And one of the servants of the king of Israel answered, “Elisha son of Shaphat is here. He used to pour water on the hands of Elijah.”
• 2 Kings 4:29 So Elisha said to Gehazi, “Tie up your garment, take my staff in your hand, and go! If you meet anyone, do not greet him, and if anyone greets you, do not answer him. Then lay my staff on the boy’s face.”
• 2 Kings 7:2 But the officer on whose arm the king leaned answered the man of God, “Look, even if the LORD were to make windows in heaven, could this really happen?” “You will see it with your own eyes,” replied Elisha, “but you will not eat any of it.”
• 2 Kings 7:13 But one of his servants replied, “Please, have scouts take five of the horses that remain in the city. Their plight will be no worse than all the Israelites who are left here. You can see that all the Israelites here are doomed. So let us send them and find out.”
• 2 Kings 7:19 And the officer had answered the man of God, “Look, even if the LORD were to make windows in heaven, could this really happen?” So Elisha had replied, “You will see it with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of it!”
• 2 Kings 18:36 But the people remained silent and did not answer a word, for Hezekiah had commanded, “Do not answer him.”
• 1 Chronicles 12:17 And David went out to meet them, saying, “If you have come to me in peace to help me, my heart will be united with you; but if you have come to betray me to my enemies when my hands are free of violence, may the God of our fathers see it and judge you.”
• 1 Chronicles 21:26 And there he built an altar to the LORD and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. He called upon the LORD, who answered him with fire from heaven on the altar of burnt offering.
• 1 Chronicles 21:28 At that time, when David saw that the LORD had answered him at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he offered sacrifices there.
• 2 Chronicles 10:13 And the king answered them harshly. King Rehoboam rejected the advice of the elders
• 2 Chronicles 29:31 Then Hezekiah said, “Now that you have consecrated yourselves to the LORD, come near and bring sacrifices and thank offerings to the house of the LORD.” So the assembly brought sacrifices and thank offerings, and all whose hearts were willing brought burnt offerings.
• 2 Chronicles 34:15 And Hilkiah said to Shaphan the scribe, “I have found the Book of the Law in the house of the LORD!” And he gave it to Shaphan.
• Ezra 3:11 And they sang responsively with praise and thanksgiving to the LORD: “For He is good; for His loving devotion to Israel endures forever.” Then all the people gave a great shout of praise to the LORD, because the foundation of the house of the LORD had been laid.
• Ezra 10:2 Then Shecaniah son of Jehiel, an Elamite, said to Ezra: “We have been unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign women from the people of the land, yet in spite of this, there is hope for Israel.
• Ezra 10:12 And the whole assembly responded in a loud voice: “Truly we must do as you say!
• Nehemiah 8:6 Then Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God, and with their hands uplifted, all the people said, “Amen, Amen!” Then they bowed down and worshiped the LORD with their faces to the ground.
• Esther 5:7 Esther replied, “This is my petition and my request:
• Esther 7:3 Queen Esther replied, “If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it pleases the king, grant me my life as my petition, and the lives of my people as my request.
• Job 1:7 “Where have you come from?” said the LORD to Satan. “From roaming through the earth,” he replied, “and walking back and forth in it.”
• Job 1:9 Satan answered the LORD, “Does Job fear God for nothing?
• Job 2:2 “Where have you come from?” said the LORD to Satan. “From roaming through the earth,” he replied, “and walking back and forth in it.”
• Job 2:4 “Skin for skin!” Satan replied. “A man will give up all he owns in exchange for his life.
• Job 3:2 And this is what he said:
• Job 4:1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
• Job 5:1 “Call out if you please, but who will answer? To which of the holy ones will you turn?
• Job 6:1 Then Job replied:
• Job 8:1 Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
• Job 9:1 Then Job answered:
• Job 9:3 If one wished to contend with God, he could not answer Him one time out of a thousand.
• Job 9:14 How then can I answer Him or choose my arguments against Him?
• Job 9:15 For even if I were right, I could not answer. I could only beg my Judge for mercy.
• Job 9:16 If I summoned Him and He answered me, I do not believe He would listen to my voice.
• Job 9:32 For He is not a man like me, that I can answer Him, that we can take each other to court.
• Job 11:1 Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:
• Job 11:2 “Should this stream of words go unanswered and such a speaker be vindicated?
• Job 12:1 Then Job answered:
• Job 12:4 I am a laughingstock to my friends, though I called on God, and He answered. The righteous and upright man is a laughingstock.
• Job 13:22 Then call me, and I will answer, or let me speak, and You can reply.
• Job 14:15 You will call, and I will answer; You will desire the work of Your hands.
• Job 15:1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
• Job 15:2 “Does a wise man answer with empty counsel or fill his belly with the hot east wind?
• Job 15:6 Your own mouth, not mine, condemns you; your own lips testify against you.
• Job 16:1 Then Job answered:
• Job 16:3 Is there no end to your long-winded speeches? What provokes you to continue testifying?
• Job 16:8 You have bound me, and it has become a witness; my frailty rises up and testifies against me.
• Job 18:1 Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
• Job 19:1 Then Job answered:
• Job 19:7 Though I cry out, ‘Violence!’ I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice.
• Job 19:16 I call for my servant, but he does not answer, though I implore him with my own mouth.
• Job 20:1 Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:
• Job 20:3 I have heard a rebuke that insults me, and my understanding prompts a reply.
• Job 21:1 Then Job answered:
• Job 22:1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied: