ענן
Hebrew
Etymology
| Root |
|---|
| ע־נ־ן (ʿ-n-n) |
| 2 terms |
Cognate with Aramaic עֲנָנָא (ʿănānā) and Arabic عَنَان (ʕanān).
Pronunciation
- (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA(key): /(ʔ)aˈnan/, /ʕaˈnan/
Noun
עָנָן • ('anán) m (plural indefinite עֲנָנִים, singular construct עֲנַן־, plural construct עַנְנֵי־) [pattern: קָטָל]
- cloud
- Synonym: עָב (áv, “cloud, cumulus”) (literary)
- Tanach, Hosea 6:4, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:
- מָה אֶעֱשֶׂה־לְּךָ אֶפְרַיִם מָה אֶעֱשֶׂה־לְּךָ יְהוּדָה וְחַסְדְּכֶם כַּעֲנַן־בֹּקֶר וְכַטַּל מַשְׁכִּים הֹלֵךְ׃
- O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? For your goodness is as a morning cloud, And as the dew that early passeth away.
Declension
| isolated forms | with possessive pronouns | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number: | State: | form | Person: | singular | plural | ||
| m | f | m | f | ||||
| singular | indefinite | עָנָן | first | עֲנָנִי | עֲנָנֵנוּ | ||
| definite | הָעָנָן | second | עֲנָנְךָ | עֲנָנֵךְ | עֲנַנְכֶם | עֲנַנְכֶן | |
| construct | עֲנַן־ | third | עֲנָנוֹ | עֲנָנָהּ | עֲנָנָם | עֲנָנָן | |
| plural | indefinite | עֲנָנִים | first | ענניי / עֲנָנַי | עֲנָנֵינוּ | ||
| definite | הָעֲנָנִים | second | עֲנָנֶיךָ | עננייך / עֲנָנַיִךְ | עַנְנֵיכֶם | עַנְנֵיכֶן | |
| construct | עַנְנֵי־ | third | עֲנָנָיו | עֲנָנֶיהָ | עַנְנֵיהֶם | עַנְנֵיהֶן | |
Derived terms
- מעונן / מְעֻנָּן (me'unán, “cloudy”)
- קֶשֶׁת בְּעָנָן (késhet be'anán)
References
- H6051 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Klein, Ernest (1987) “עָנָן”, in A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language for Readers of English[1], Jerusalem: Carta, →ISBN, page 477c
- Jastrow, Marcus (1903) A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature[2], London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons, page 1095b
- “ענן” in the Hebrew Terms Database of the Academy of Hebrew Language
Further reading
- ענן on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia he