עָנַן ʻânan — to cover
Translated in the KJV as × bring, enchanter, Meonemin, observe times, soothsayer, sorcerer.
a primitive root; to cover; used only as a denominative from H6051, to cloud over; figuratively, to act covertly, i.e. practise magic.
ʻânan in each stem
Po'el
Participle (active) 6Imperfect (yiqtol) 1Perfect (qatal) 1
Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times.
There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,
For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the Lord thy God hath not suffered thee so to do.
Polel
Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1Participle (active) 1
And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.
But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore.
Pi'el
Infinitive construct 1
And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:
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 ›