אָנָה ʼânâh — to approach
Translated in the KJV as befall, deliver, happen, seek a quarrel.
a primitive root (perhaps rather identical with H578 through the idea of contraction in anguish); to approach; hence, to meet in various senses.
ʼânâh in each stem
Pu'al
Imperfect (yiqtol) 2
There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.
There shall no evil happen to the just: but the wicked shall be filled with mischief.
Pi'el
Perfect (qatal) 1
And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee.
Hitpa'el
Participle (active) 1
And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he rent his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man doth send unto me to recover a man of his leprosy? wherefore consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh a quarrel against me.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›