Skip to the text

תַּעֲנִית

ta.a.nit

fasting

Open in Word Study

Strong’s H8589Noun, feminine1 time in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

humiliation1

In the text

Ezra 9:5מִתַּעֲנִיתִי
At the evening offering, I got up from my humiliation with my tunic and cloak torn, and I fell on my knees, spread out my hands to the LORD my God,

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[תַּעֲנִית] n.f. humiliation, by fasting, sf. Ezr 9:5.

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.