Ezekiel 21:6:3Ezek.21.6.W3TABWLC Ezekiel 21:11
הֵֽאָנַ֑ח
heanakh
“groan”
- Transliteration
- he-a-NAKH
- Extended
- hee-ah-NAKH
- IPA
- /heːʔaˈnaħ/
Meaning by language
- English
- groan
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Nun | n as in new | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch |
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The word
Word in context
- word
he-a-NAKH
- clause
ve-a-TA ven-a-DAM he-a-NAKH
- sentence
ve-a-TA ven-a-DAM he-a-NAKH be-shiv-RON mat-NA-yim u-ve-mar-ri-ROT te-a-NAKH le-e-NE-hem
Exegesis
The imperative hēʾānaḥ {הֵֽאָנַ֑ח | hēʾānaḥ} ‘sigh/groan’ initiates the action, while the following manner phrase bə-šivrôn māṯnayim {בְּשִׁבְר֤וֹן מָתְנַ֙יִם֙ | bə-šivrôn māṯnayim} ‘with breaking of loins’ uses a construct chain to compress the image of bodily collapse into a single unit.
tēʾānaḥ {הֵֽאָנַ֑ח … תֵּֽאָנַ֖ח | hēʾānaḥ … tēʾānaḥ} heightens intensity and suggests sustained, observable grief; the imperfect here functions as an instruction for continued performance rather than a mere prediction.
Root and etymology
אנחAleph–Nun–Chet
“to sigh, groan”
In context — Ezekiel 21:6
And you, Son of Man, sigh with the breaking of your loins, and with bitterness you shall sigh before their eyes.
About this coordinate
Ezekiel 21:6:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of Ezekiel 21:6, so the Hebrew word הֵֽאָנַ֑ח (heanakh) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written Ezek.21.6.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (Ezek.21.6.W3.S1) and character.