Lexicon anak: to plummet Original Word: אֲנָךPart of Speech: Noun Masculine Transliteration: anak Phonetic Spelling: (an-awk') Short Definition: line NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originof uncertain derivation Definitionto plummet NASB Translationplumb line (3), vertical with a plumb (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs אֲנָךְ noun [masculine] plummet (compare words in cognate languages for lead, tin, etymology dubious, perhaps foreign; Arabic  (see Frä 153) Syriac  Mandean אנכא, Assyrian anâku Lyon Sargontexte 92; see Lag Arm. Stud. § 103 compare Id. BN 175) — אֲנָ֑ךְ except once Amos 7:8 — plummet Amos 7:7,8 (twice in verse); ׳חוֺמַת א, i.e. a vertical wall vAmos 7:7. Strong's plumb-line Probably from an unused root meaning to be narrow; according to most a plumb-line, and to others a hook -- plumb-line. |
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