Word Summary
taanith: humiliation
Original Word: תַּעֲנִיתTransliteration: taanith
Phonetic Spelling: (tah-an-eeth')
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: humiliation
Meaning: affliction, fasting
Strong's Concordance
heaviness
From anah; affliction (of self), i.e. Fasting -- heaviness.
see HEBREW anah
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H8589. taanith
[תַּעֲנִית] noun feminine humiliation, by fasting (compare √
Pi`el Hithpa`el; Late Hebrew ׳ת = fasting), suffix תַּעֲנִיתִי Ezekiel 9:5.