| Strong's Concordance anas: to compel, constrainOriginal Word: אָנַס Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: anas Phonetic Spelling: (aw-nas') Short Definition: compulsion Brown-Driver-Briggs[אָנַס]  verb compel, constrain (late, often Mishna id., Aramaic אֲנַם,  ) — Qal Participle אֵין אֹנֵס namely, to drink Esther 1:8 ("" כִּרְצוֺן אִישׁ וָאִישׁ).  Strong's Exhaustive Concordancecompel To insist -- compel. Forms and Transliterationsאֹנֵ֑ס אנס ’ō·nês ’ōnês oNes LinksInterlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel Texts Englishman's ConcordanceStrong's Hebrew 597 1 Occurrence ’ō·nês — 1 Occ. Esther 1:8 HEB: כַדָּ֖ת אֵ֣ין אֹנֵ֑ס כִּי־ כֵ֣ן ׀ NAS: there was no compulsion, for so KJV: [was] according to the law; none did compel: for so the king INT: to the law there compulsion for so | 



