תַּעֲנִית (taʿănît) is
a Hebrew noun
meaning humiliation. It appears
1 time
in 1 book of the Hebrew Bible
(Strong's H8589).
Also rendered
fasting
Same Hebrew root (TWOT 1652f)
Range of meaning (TWOT 1652f)humiliation; affliction, fasting; heaviness
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's
תַּעֲנִיתnoun, feminine: humiliation
humiliation, by fasting, suffix.
Strong's H8589תַּעֲנִית: affliction (of self), i.e. fasting KJV:heaviness.
Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.
Root family 1652: עָנָהʿānâ — be bowed down, afflicted; be put down, become low, be depressed, downcast; humble oneself; humble, mishandle, weaken; be humbled; depress; abase self, affliction, answer, chasten self, deal hardly with, defile, exercise, force…