Lexical Definition

‎אֲנָא‎ ʼănâʼ (an-aw') me ^A:PerP-CS
(Aramaic) or אֲנָה ʼănâh (an-aw'); (Aramaic), corresponding to ‎אֲנִי‎

I, as for me.

• I

1) I (first pers. sing. -usually used for emphasis)

See Greek: ἰδού

Extended Information

Aramaic of: אֲנִי

• Aramaic of a.ni (‎א‎ֲ‎נ‎ִ‎י‎, ‎א‎ָֽ‎נ‎ֹ‎כ‎ִ֫‎י‎ "I" אֲנִי)

Brown-Driver-Briggs

Hebrew form: אֲנִי
‎אֲנָא‎ Dan 2:8; Ezra 6:12; Ezra 7:21 in common editions: see ‎אֲנָה‎ below

‎אֲנָה‎ pronoun 1 singular I (= Hebrew ‎אֲנִי‎, q. v.: Zenjirli, Cilician, Egyptian Aramaic ‎אנךְ‎ (Cooke^{182; 104; 208}; S-C^oft), Nabataean ‎נח‎ . . . (Lzb²²¹); ᵑ7 ‎אנא‎, Syriac ); — I, Dan 2:30; Dan 4:6*; Dan 4:27*; Dan 5:16, before a participle Dan 3:25; Dan 4:34*, after a participle (K^{§ 76, 2b}) Dan 2:8 ‎מִןיַֿצִּיב יָדַע אֲנָה‎, vDan 2:23; Dan 4:4* followed by a proper name Dan 4:1* ‎אֲנָה נבוכדנצר שְׁלֵח חֲוֵית‎, v.Dan 4:15* v.Dan 4:34*; Dan 7:15; Ezra 6:12; Ezra 7:21, as nom. pendens ['hanging' noun clause], Dan 4:31*; Dan 7:28 emphasizing a suffix (K^{§ 87, 3}) Dan 7:15; Ezra 7:21 (compare S-C^{B 8, J 12, K3.5}).

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