Lexical Definition

‎אָנָה‎ ʼânâh (aw-naw') to meet ^H:V
a primitive root (perhaps rather identical with ‎אָנָה‎ through the idea of contraction in anguish)

befall, deliver, happen, seek a quarrel.

• to approach
• hence, to meet in various senses

1) to meet, encounter, approach, be opportune
1a) (Piel) to allow to meet, cause to meet
1b) (Pual) to be sent, be allowed to meet
1c) (Hithpael) to seek occasion (quarrel), cause oneself to meet

Brown-Driver-Briggs

III. [‎אָנָה‎] verb be opportune, meet, encounter opportunely (Arabic the right time is come, or it is come to the right time, or to maturity, or is opportune). Pi`el Perfect ‎אִנָּה‎ Exod 21:13 cause (or allow) to meet in ‎בְיָדוֺ‎ ‎׳‎‎הָאֱלֹהִים א‎ (object omitted), i.e. without any purpose of the man to whom suffix Ref. Pu`al be allowed to meet, be sent, Imperfect ‎יְאֻנֶּה‎ Prov 12:21 (with ‎ל‎); 3 feminine singular ‎תְּאֻנֶּה‎ Ps 91:10 (with ‎אֶל‎), subject evil. Hithpa`el cause oneself to meet, seek occasion (= seek a quarrel with) followed by ‎ל‎ 2Kgs 5:7.

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