Biblical Hebrew

hebrew #594 - אֲנָךְ anak (to plummet)

Original Word:	אֲנָךְ
Transliteration:	anak
Definition:	to plummet
Part of Speech:	Noun Masculine
Phonetic Spelling:	(an-awk')
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

plumb-line

Probably from an unused root meaning to be narrow; according to most a plumb-line, and to others a hook -- plumb-line.

Englishman's Concordance

1) plummet, plumb, lead-weight
Part of Speech: noun masculine
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: probably from an unused root meaning to be narrow
Same Word by TWOT Number: 129.1

Brown-Driver-Briggs

אֲנָךְnoun [masculine]plummet (compare words in cognate languages for lead, tin, etymology dubious, perhaps foreign; Arabic

(see Frä¹⁵³) Syriac

Mandean אנכא, Assyrian anâku Lyon^{Sargontexte 92}; see Lag^{Arm. Stud. § 103} compare Id.^{BN 175}) — אֲנָ֑ךְ except once Amos 7:8 — plummetAmos 7:7,8 (twice in verse); ׳חוֺמַת א, i.e. a vertical wall vAmos 7:7.

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 594. אֲנָך (anak) — 4 Occurrences

Amos 7:7
HEB:עַל־ חוֹמַ֣ת אֲנָ֑ךְ וּבְיָד֖וֹ אֲנָֽךְ׃
NAS: was standing by a vertical wall
KJV: upon a wall [made] by a plumbline, with a plumbline
INT: and wall A vertical his hand A plumb

Amos 7:7
HEB:אֲנָ֑ךְ וּבְיָד֖וֹ אֲנָֽךְ׃
NAS: wall with a plumb line in His hand.
KJV: [made] by a plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand.
INT: A vertical his hand A plumb

Amos 7:8
HEB:עָמ֔וֹס וָאֹמַ֖ר אֲנָ֑ךְ וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֲדֹנָ֗י
NAS: And I said, A plumb line.
KJV: thou? And I said, A plumbline. Then said
INT: Amos said A plumb said the Lord

Amos 7:8
HEB:הִנְנִ֨י שָׂ֤ם אֲנָךְ֙ בְּקֶ֙רֶב֙ עַמִּ֣י
NAS: A plumb line. Then the Lord
KJV: Behold, I will set a plumbline in the midst
INT: I am about to put line the midst of my people

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