- עונה II
- עוֹנָהII f. (עָנָה II; cmp. עִינּוּי) trouble, suffering. Sifra Bḥuck., Par. 2, ch. VIII (play on יען וביען, Lev. 26:43) ע׳ של מדבר (Yalk. Lev. 675 עוֹנוֹת) the privations in the desert; ע׳ של בעל פעור (Yalk. l. c. של פעור) the suffering attendant upon the worship of Baal (Num. 25:3, Ps. 106:28, sq.); ע׳ של מלכי האמורי the suffering from the Emorite kings (Jud. 2, sq.).Pl. עוֹנֹות. Lev. R. s. 17 (play on ח֗ר֗צ֗ב֗ות, Ps. 73:4, v. הִרְהֵר) ולא צ̇ב̇יתים בע׳ I did not make them swell from sufferings; ib. אין להם ציבים של ע׳וכ׳ they (the wicked) have no swellings (accumulations) of sufferings with which they die (so as to atone for their sins) ; Yalk. Ps. 808.
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