STRONGS NUMBER H2186


Word Summary
zanach: to reject, spurn
Original Word: זָנַח
Transliteration: zanach
Phonetic Spelling: (zaw-nakh')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to reject, spurn
Meaning: reject, forsake, fail
Strong's Concordance
cast away off, remove far away off

A primitive root meaning to push aside, i.e. Reject, forsake, fail -- cast away (off), remove far away (off).

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H2186. zanach

I. זָנַח‎ verb reject, spurn (perhaps compare Assyrian zinû, be angry, especially of gods Gu§ 105 ZimBP 23 ff.) —

Qal Perfect ׳ז‎ Hosea 8:3, 5; Lamentations 2:7; זָנַחְתָּ‎ Psalm 44:10 2t.; suffix זְנַחְתָּ֑נִי‎ 43:2; זְנַחְתָּנוּ‎ 60:3; 60:12; 108:12; זְנַחְתִּים‎ Zechariah 10:6; Imperfect יִזְנַח‎ Psalm 77:8; Lamentations 3:31; תִּזְנַח‎ Psalm 44:24 2t.; — reject, Israel rejects good Hosea 8:3; Samaria's calf rejects her 8:5 (others make ׳י‎ subject; WeKl. Proph. reads אזנת‎ I reject), elsewhere God rejects people Psalm 43:2; 60:3; 77:8; 88:15; Zechariah 10:6; לָנֶצַח‎ Psalm 44:24; 74:1; לעולם‎ Lamentations 3:31; ז בצבאתינו תצא ׳ולא‎ Psalm 44:10; 60:12; 108:12; מִשָּׁלוֺם נַפְשִׁי‎ Lamentations 3:17; king Psalm 89:39; altar Lamentations 2:7.

Hiph`il Perfect הִזְנִיחַ‎2 Chronicles 29:19; suffix הִזְנִיחָם‎11:14; 3 plural הֶאֶזְנִיחוּ‎ Isaiah 19:6, see II. זנח‎; Imperfect יַזְנִיחֲךָ‎ 1 Chronicles 28:9; — (late) reject (= earlier

Qal), Jeroboam rejects the Levites לי ׳מכהן‎2 Chronicles 11:14; Ahaz the sacred vessels 29:19; ׳י‎ rejects Solomon 1 Chronicles 28:9.

II. [זָנַח‎] stink, emit stench (compare Arabic become rancid, of oil, etc., Lane); — only

Hiph`il Perfect3masculine plural נְהָרוֺת הֶאֶזְנִיחוּ‎ rivers stink Isaiah 19:6 (read הִזְנִיחוּ‎ Ges§ 53, 6 Ol§ 255 b Sta§ 420 a Köi. 293; but Ew§ 123 b De Di derive from elative אַזְנָח‎ or אֶזְנָח‎).