STRONGS NUMBER H594


Word Summary
anak: to plummet
Original Word: אֲנָךְ
Transliteration: anak
Phonetic Spelling: (an-awk')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: to plummet
Meaning: a plumb-line, a hook
Strong's 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.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H594. anak

אֲנָךְnoun [masculine] plummet (compare words in cognate languages for lead, tin, etymology dubious, perhaps foreign; Arabic (see Frä153) Syriac Mandean אנכא‎, Assyrian anâku LyonSargontexte 92; see LagArm. Stud. § 103 compare Id.BN 175) — אֲנָ֑ךְ‎ except once Amos 7:8plummet 7:7-8, (twice in verse); א ׳חוֺמַת‎, i.e. a vertical wall vAmos 7:7.