Lexicon :: Strong's H6030 - ʿānâ

Then Abraham answered, “Since I have ventured to speak to my lord ​— ​even though I am dust and ashes ​— ​

The Hethites replied to Abraham,[fn]

Ephron was sitting among the Hethites. So in the hearing[fn] of all the Hethites who came to the gate of his city, Ephron the Hethite answered Abraham:

Ephron answered Abraham and said to him,

Laban and Bethuel answered, “This is from the LORD; we have no choice in the matter.[fn]

But Isaac answered Esau, “Look, I have made him a master over you, have given him all of his relatives as his servants, and have sustained him with grain and new wine. What then can I do for you, my son? ”

His father Isaac answered him,

Look, your dwelling place will be

away from the richness of the land,

away from the dew of the sky above.

“In the future when you come to check on my wages, my honesty will testify for me. If I have any female goats that are not speckled or spotted, or any lambs that are not black, they will be considered stolen.”

Then Rachel and Leah answered him, “Do we have any portion or inheritance in our father’s family?

Jacob answered, “I was afraid, for I thought you would take your daughters from me by force.

Then Jacob became incensed and brought charges against Laban. “What is my crime? ” he said to Laban. “What is my sin, that you have pursued me?

Then Laban answered Jacob, “The daughters are my daughters; the children, my children; and the flocks, my flocks! Everything you see is mine! But what can I do today for these daughters of mine or for the children they have borne?

But Jacob’s sons answered Shechem and his father Hamor deceitfully because he had defiled their sister Dinah.

“We must get up and go to Bethel. I will build an altar there to the God who answered me in my day of distress. He has been with me everywhere I have gone.”

“This is its interpretation,” Joseph replied. “The three baskets are three days.

“I am not able to,” Joseph answered Pharaoh. “It is God who will give Pharaoh a favorable answer.”[fn]

But Reuben replied, “Didn’t I tell you not to harm the boy? But you wouldn’t listen. Now we must account for his blood! ”[fn]

Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph! Is my father still living? ” But they could not answer him because they were terrified in his presence.

Moses answered, “What if they won’t believe me and will not obey me but say, ‘The LORD did not appear to you’? ”

Miriam sang to them:

Sing to the LORD,

for he is highly exalted;

he has thrown the horse

and its rider into the sea.

Then all the people responded together, “We will do all that the LORD has spoken.” So Moses brought the people’s words back to the LORD.

As the sound of the ram’s horn grew louder and louder, Moses spoke and God answered him in the thunder.

Do not give false testimony against your neighbor.

“You must not follow a crowd in wrongdoing. Do not testify in a lawsuit and go along with a crowd to pervert justice.

Moses came and told the people all the commands of the LORD and all the ordinances. Then all the people responded with a single voice, “We will do everything that the LORD has commanded.”

But Moses replied,

It’s not the sound of a victory cry

and not the sound of a cry of defeat;

I hear the sound of singing!

Joshua son of Nun, assistant to Moses since his youth,[fn] responded, “Moses, my lord, stop them! ”

Then Israel sang this song:

Spring up, well ​— ​sing to it!

But Balaam responded to the servants of Balak, “If Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not go against the command of the LORD my God to do anything small or great.

He answered, “Shouldn’t I say exactly what the LORD puts in my mouth? ”

But Balaam answered him, “Didn’t I tell you: Whatever the LORD says, I must do? ”

The Gadites and Reubenites replied, “What the LORD has spoken to your servants is what we will do.

“If anyone kills a person, the murderer is to be put to death based on the word of witnesses. But no one is to be put to death based on the testimony of one witness.

“You replied to me, ‘What you propose to do is good.’

“You answered me, ‘We have sinned against the LORD. We will go up and fight just as the LORD our God commanded us.’ Then each of you put on his weapons of war and thought it would be easy to go up into the hill country.

“Do not give dishonest testimony against your neighbor.

“If a malicious witness testifies against someone accusing him of a crime,

“The judges are to make a careful investigation, and if the witness turns out to be a liar who has falsely accused his brother,

“If it accepts your offer of peace and opens its gates to you, all the people found in it will become forced laborers for you and serve you.

“They will declare, ‘Our hands did not shed this blood; our eyes did not see it.

“then his sister-in-law will go up to him in the sight of the elders, remove his sandal from his foot, and spit in his face. Then she will declare, ‘This is what is done to a man who will not build up his brother’s house.’

“You are to respond by saying in the presence of the LORD your God:

My father was a wandering Aramean. He went down to Egypt with a few people and resided there as an alien. There he became a great, powerful, and populous nation.

“The Levites will proclaim in a loud voice to every Israelite:

“And when many troubles and afflictions come to them, this song will testify against them, because[fn] their descendants will not have forgotten it. For I know what they are prone to do,[fn] even before I bring them into the land I swore to give them.”

They answered Joshua, “Everything you have commanded us we will do, and everywhere you send us we will go.

Achan replied to Joshua, “It is true. I have sinned against the LORD, the God of Israel. This is what I did:

The Gibeonites answered him, “It was clearly communicated to your servants that the LORD your God had commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land before you. We greatly feared for our lives because of you, and that is why we did this.

The Reubenites, Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh answered the heads of the Israelite clans,

The people replied, “We will certainly not abandon the LORD to worship other gods!