Keraia
Lexicon

עוּן

unto dwellHow to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentVerb331 occurrences33 books318 verses

Definition

a primitive root; 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
Traditional renderings: give account, afflict (by mistake for H6031), (cause to, give) answer, bring low (by mistake for H6031), cry, hear, Leannoth, lift up, say, × scholar, (give a) shout, sing (together by course), speak, testify, utter, (bear) witness. See also H1042, H1043.

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders עוּן:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

331 total
  1. 1 Samuel 30:22וַיַּ֜עַן · but
    …but all the wicked and worthless men among those who had gone with David said, “Because they did not go with us, we will not share with them the plunder we recovered, except for each man’s wife and children. They may take them and go.”
  2. 2 Samuel 1:16עָנָ֤ה · has testified
    For David had said to the Amalekite, “Your blood be on your own head because your own mouth has testified against you, saying, ‘I killed the LORD’s anointed.’”
  3. 2 Samuel 4:9וַיַּ֨עַן · answered
    But David answered Rechab and his brother Baanah, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, “As surely as the LORD lives, who has redeemed my life from all distress,
  4. 2 Samuel 13:32וַיַּ֡עַן · spoke up
    But Jonadab, the son of David’s brother Shimeah, spoke up: “My lord must not think they have killed all the sons of the king, for only Amnon is dead. In fact, Absalom has planned this since the day Amnon violated his sister Tamar.
  5. 2 Samuel 14:18וַיַּ֣עַן · said
    Then the king said to the woman, “I am going to ask you something; do not conceal it from me!” “Let my lord the king speak,” she replied.
  6. 2 Samuel 14:19וַתַּ֣עַן · answered
    So the king asked, “Is the hand of Joab behind all this?” The woman answered, “As surely as you live, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right or to the left from anything that my lord the king says. Yes, your servant Joab is the one who gave me orders; he told your maidservant exactly what to say.
  7. 2 Samuel 15:21וַיַּ֧עַן · answered
    But Ittai answered the king, “As surely as the LORD lives, and as my lord the king lives, wherever my lord the king may be, whether it means life or death, there will your servant be!”
  8. 2 Samuel 19:21וַיַּ֨עַן · said
    But Abishai son of Zeruiah said, “Shouldn’t Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the LORD’s anointed?”
  9. 2 Samuel 19:42וַיַּעַן֩ · replied
    And all the men of Judah replied to the men of Israel, “We did this because the king is our relative. Why does this anger you? Have we ever eaten at the king’s expense or received anything for ourselves?”
  10. 2 Samuel 19:43וַיַּ֣עַן · answered
    “We have ten shares in the king,” answered the men of Israel, “so we have more claim to David than you. Why then do you despise us? Were we not the first to speak of restoring our king?” But the men of Judah spoke more fiercely than the men of Israel.
  11. 2 Samuel 20:20וַיַּ֥עַן
    “Far be it!” Joab declared. “Far be it from me to swallow up or destroy!
  12. 2 Samuel 22:42עָנָֽם׃ · answer
    They looked, but there was no one to save them—to the LORD, but He did not answer.
  13. 1 Kings 1:28וַיַּ֨עַן · said
    Then King David said, “Call in Bathsheba for me.” So she came into the king’s presence and stood before him.
  14. 1 Kings 1:36וַיַּ֨עַן · replied
    “Amen,” replied Benaiah son of Jehoiada. “May the LORD, the God of my lord the king, so declare it.
  15. 1 Kings 1:43וַיַּ֙עַן֙ · replied
    “Not at all,” Jonathan replied. “Our lord King David has made Solomon king.
  16. 1 Kings 2:22וַיַּעַן֩ · answered
    King Solomon answered his mother, “Why do you request Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? Since he is my older brother, you might as well request the kingdom for him and for Abiathar the priest and for Joab son of Zeruiah!”
  17. 1 Kings 2:30עָנָֽנִי׃ · answered me
    And Benaiah entered the tent of the LORD and said to Joab, “The king says, ‘Come out!’” But Joab replied, “No, I will die here.” So Benaiah relayed the message to the king, saying, “This is how Joab answered me.”
  18. 1 Kings 3:27וַיַּ֨עַן
    Then the king gave his ruling: “Give the living baby to the first woman. By no means should you kill him; she is his mother.”
  19. 1 Kings 12:7וַעֲנִיתָ֕ם · and if you will respond
    They replied, “If you will be a servant to these people and serve them this day, and if you will respond by speaking kind words to them, they will be your servants forever.”
  20. 1 Kings 12:13וַיַּ֧עַן · answered
    And the king answered the people harshly. He rejected the advice of the elders
  21. 1 Kings 13:6וַיַּ֨עַן · responded
    Then the king responded to the man of God, “Intercede with the LORD your God and pray for me that my hand may be restored.” So the man of God interceded with the LORD, and the king’s hand was restored to him as it was before.
  22. 1 Kings 18:21עָנ֥וּ · answer
    Then Elijah approached all the people and said, “How long will you waver between two opinions? If the LORD is God, follow Him. But if Baal is God, follow him.” But the people did not answer a word.
  23. 1 Kings 18:24יַעֲנֶ֥ה · answers; וַיַּ֧עַן
    Then you may call on the name of your god, and I will call on the name of the LORD. The God who answers by fire, He is God.” And all the people answered, “What you say is good.”
  24. 1 Kings 18:26עֲנֵ֔נוּ · answer us; עֹנֶ֑ה · answered
    And they took the bull that was given them, prepared it, and called on the name of Baal from morning until noon, shouting, “O Baal, answer us!” But there was no sound, and no one answered as they leaped around the altar they had made.
  25. 1 Kings 18:29עֹנֶ֖ה · one answered
    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.
  26. 1 Kings 18:37עֲנֵ֤נִי · Answer me; עֲנֵ֔נִי · Answer me
    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.”
  27. 1 Kings 20:4וַיַּ֤עַן · replied
    And the king of Israel replied, “Just as you say, my lord the king: I am yours, along with all that I have.”
  28. 1 Kings 20:11וַיַּ֤עַן · replied
    And the king of Israel replied, “Tell him: ‘The one putting on his armor should not boast like one taking it off.’”
  29. 2 Kings 1:10וַיַּעֲנֶ֣ה · answered
    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.
  30. 2 Kings 1:11וַיַּ֙עַן֙ · And [the captain]
    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!’”
  31. 2 Kings 1:12וַיַּ֣עַן · replied
    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.
  32. 2 Kings 3:11וַ֠יַּעַן · answered
    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.”
  33. 2 Kings 4:29תַעֲנֶנּ֑וּ · answer him
    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.”
  34. 2 Kings 7:2וַיַּ֣עַן · answered
    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.”
  35. 2 Kings 7:13וַיַּעַן֩ · replied
    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.”
  36. 2 Kings 7:19וַיַּ֨עַן · had answered
    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!”
  37. 2 Kings 18:36עָנ֥וּ · answer; תַעֲנֻֽהוּ׃ · answer him
    But the people remained silent and did not answer a word, for Hezekiah had commanded, “Do not answer him.”
  38. 1 Chronicles 12:17וַיַּ֙עַן֙
    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.”
  39. 1 Chronicles 21:26וַיַּֽעֲנֵ֤הוּ · who answered him
    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.
  40. 1 Chronicles 21:28עָנָ֣הוּ · had answered him
    At that time, when David saw that the LORD had answered him at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he offered sacrifices there.
  41. 2 Chronicles 10:13וַיַּעֲנֵ֥ם · answered them
    And the king answered them harshly. King Rehoboam rejected the advice of the elders
  42. 2 Chronicles 29:31וַיַּ֨עַן · Then
    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.
  43. 2 Chronicles 34:15וַיַּ֣עַן · said
    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.
  44. Ezra 3:11וַֽ֠יַּעֲנוּ · And they sang responsively
    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.
  45. Ezra 10:2וַיַּעַן֩ · Then
    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.
  46. Ezra 10:12וַיַּֽעְנ֧וּ · responded
    And the whole assembly responded in a loud voice: “Truly we must do as you say!