Lexicon
תְּנוּאָה
te.nu.ah
H8569
H:N-F Hebrew

opposition

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te.nu.ah denotes opposition or adverse displeasure, whether expressed against a person or encountered as God's displeasure.

The attested use concerns opposition or adverse displeasure: Job 33:10 places the plural form in a complaint that reasons are being found to oppose the speaker, while Numbers 14:34 uses the singular construct form in the warning that the people will know God's displeasure.

Senses in use

  1. Opposition expressed as adverse displeasure · dominant

    In Job 33:10, the plural absolute form occurs in the speaker's complaint that reasons are found to oppose him and treat him as an enemy; the APB renders the clause, "Yet you find reasons to oppose me and count me as your enemy." In Numbers 14:34, the singular construct form occurs in the warning that the people will know God's displeasure; the APB renders, "you shall bear your iniquities forty years and know my displeasure."

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the term's contexts with "reasons to oppose me" in Job 33:10 and "my displeasure" in Numbers 14:34. These phrases show the verses' contexts rather than fixed English equivalents.

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