Quick Definition
to meet
Strong's Definition
to approach; hence, to meet in various senses
Derivation: a primitive root (perhaps rather identical with H578 (אָנָה) through the idea of contraction in anguish);
KJV Usage: befall, deliver, happen, seek a quarrel.
TWOT Reference: 126
Outline of Biblical Usage
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
אָנָה (a.nah) — to meet. 1) to meet, encounter, approach, be opportune 1a) (Piel) to allow to meet, cause to meet 1b) (Pual) to be sent, be allowed to meet 1c) (Hithpael) to seek occasion (quarrel), cause oneself to meet
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb
verb · תַּאֲנָה
Happen | verb pu'al
to befall, to happen = process by which something happens to humans
Happen | verb pi
Collocation: אנה לְיָד
to allow to happen literally: to cause to happen to (someone's) hand; hence: causative process by which deities cause or allow something to happen to somebody
Conflict | verb hit
to pick a quarrel = action by which humans look for an occasion to start a conflict with other humans
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[אָנָה] vb. be opportune, meet, encounter opportunely Pi. cause (or allow) to meet
Pu. be allowed to meet, be sent
Hithp. cause oneself to meet, seek occasion (= seek a quarrel with)
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