Lexical Definition

‎אָנַשׁ‎ ʼânash (aw-nash') be incurable ^H:V
a primitive root

desperate(-ly wicked), incurable, sick, woeful.

• to be frail, feeble, or (figuratively) melancholy

1) to be weak, sick, frail
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to be incurable
1a2) to be sick
1a3) desperate, incurable, desperately wicked, woeful, very sick (pass participle) (metaph.)
1b) (Niphal) to be sick

Brown-Driver-Briggs

I. [‎אָנַשׁ‎] verb be weak, sick (Assyrian anâšu Zim^{BP 56, 70}; Wetzst in De^{Psalmen, ed. 4, 882} derive from II. ‎אנשׁ‎ per antiphrasin; Dl^{Pr 160 identified} with III. ‎אנשׁ‎; see also De^{Psalmen, ed. 4, 904}; so Lag^{BN 60}, who compare , weichliches d.h. stumpfes Schwert. It seems safer at present to keep the three distinct). Qal Passive participle ‎אָנוּשׁ‎ Job 34:6 +; ‎אֲנוּשָׁה‎ Jer 15:18; Mic 1:9 & so read Ps 69:21* (Bi Che) etc.; as adjective incurable, of wound, but metaphor (‎מַכָּה‎) Mic 1:9; Jer 15:18 compare Job 34:6 (‎חֵץ‎), Jer 30:12 ‎שֵׁבֶר‎; || ‎נַחְלָה מַכָּה‎); so ‎כְּאֵב אָנוּשׁ‎ Isa 17:11 compare Jer 30:15 (‎מַכְאֹב‎); compare ‎יוֺם אָנוּשׁ‎ Isa 17:16 also in phrase ‎עָקֹב הַלֵּב מִכֹּל וְאָנֻשׁ הוּא‎ Jer 17:9 Niph`al Imperfect ‎וַיֵּאָנַ֯שׁ֑‎ 2Sam 12:15 be sick, of child.

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