Aramaic word · H6065

עֲנָשׁ

la'anash

confiscation

A Biblical Aramaic word, from the parts of the Old Testament written in Aramaic. Why Aramaic?

Appears once in the Aramaic of the Old Testament.

What it means

v

1) (CLBL) to fine

2) (BDB/TWOT) confiscation, fining, amercing

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

Where it appears

Ezra · 1

  1. Ezra 7:26 לַעֲנָ֥שׁ to confiscation of

    If anyone does not keep the law of your God and the law of the king, let a strict judgment be executed against him, whether death, banishment, confiscation of property, or imprisonment.

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