עֲנָה (ʿănâ) is an Aramaic verb meaning answer. It appears 32 times in 2 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H6032).

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 2918)

Root family 2918: עֲנָה ʿănâ — I, answer. In every one of the twenty-four times this word is used, it is followed by the verb ʾămar, making the idiom “answered and said.” The phrase is an Aramaic expression merely meaning “to reply, respond.” This Aramaizing expression is frequent in the Gospels, where the KJV always renders it fully. The niv translates the idiom more naturally, “answered,” “replied,” and the like

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