Word

מָאֵן

mâʼên · H3985 · Hebrew · 41 occurrences

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Meanings

to refuse

State in which humans and deities are unwilling to assent to a suggestion or proposal

Examples
Genesis 37:35 Then all his sons and all his daughters got up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. And he said, “Surely I will go down to Sheol in mourning for my son.” So his father wept for him.
Genesis 39:8 But he refused and said to his master’s wife, “Look, with me here, my master does not concern himself with anything in the house, and he has put me in charge of all that he owns.
Genesis 48:19 But his father refused and said, “I know, my son, I know; he also will become a people and he also will be great. However, his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his descendants shall become a multitude of nations.”

How it’s used In 4 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

40 occurrences in 14 groups

Not stated: they 12
Not stated: he, she or it 10
Not stated: you (more than one) 3
Not stated: you (one person) 3
Other words · 10 groups that occur once or twice (12) 12

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

8 occurrences in 8 groups

הָלַךְto go, to walk 1
יָדַעto know 1
כָּלַםto be ashamed 1
לָקַחto take, to receive 1
נָחַםto comfort, to relent, to be sorry 1
נָתַןto give, to put, to set 1

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

27 occurrences in 21 groups

לto/for+ נָתַןto give, to put, to set 3
לto/for+ שׁוּבto return, to turn back 3
לto/for+ שָׁמַעto hear, to listen, to obey 3
Other words · 18 groups that occur once or twice (21) 21

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

אָמַרto say 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 1 word

θέλω thélō · G2309 · to purpose, to be of an opinion, to think something is so: Greek θέλω (thélō, G2309) 'to will, desire' serves as the semantic counterpart to Hebrew מָאֵן (mâʼên, H3985) 'to refuse' when negated (οὐ θέλω = 'not willing' = 'refuse'), representing the volitional opposite that translators employ to render Hebrew refusal in Greek's preference for positive volition-marking.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Unwilling002001002031: מָאֵן means to refuse, as reflected in its recurring use for Pharaoh's refusal to let Israel go (e.g. Exodus 4:23, 7:14, 9:2), placing it among terms of unwillingness or resistance.

Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

מָאֵןmâʼên · H3985מָאֵן mâʼên · H3986 · to refuse · 4×מֵאֵן mêʼên · H3987 · to refuse · 1×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3985. maen [מָאֵן verb Pi`el refuse ( Qal perhaps be distasteful, compare Syr, taeduit,…

H3985. maen
[מָאֵן verb Pi`el refuse (
Qal perhaps be distasteful, compare Syr, taeduit, piguit, Aph`el be slothful; Late Hebrew Pi`el, as term, techn. of girl, refuse to acknowledge marriage contract; possibly akin to Ethiopic reject; Arabic is sustain, maintain); —
Pi`el Perfect מֵאֵן Exo 7:14 Exo 7:4t.; feminine singular מֵאֲנָה Jer 15:18 Jer 15:3t.; מֵאַנְתָּ Exo 10:3, etc.; Imperfect יְמָאֵן Exo 22:16; וַיְמָאֵן Gen 37:35 Gen 37:8t. etc.; Inf. abs מָאֵן Exo 22:16; — refuse, (followed by Infinitive except 6 t. see below) human subject Gen 37:35 (J), Jer 31:15; Exo 22:17 (twice in verse); Num 20:21; Num 22:14 (all E), Deu 25:7; 1Sa 8:19; 2Sa 2:23; 2Sa 13:9; 1Ki 20:35; 1Ki 21:15; Est 1:12; Jer 50:33 compare Job 6:7; Psa 77:3; Pro 21:25; Jer 15:18; without Infinitive וַיּאֹמֶר וַיְמָאֵן Gen 39:8; Gen 48:19 (both J), 1Sa 28:23;; also 2Ki 5:16; especially of refusing to obey ׳י's commands Exo 4:23; Exo 7:14; Exo 10:3; Exo 16:28 (all J), Neh 9:17; also Psa 78:10; Pro 21:7; Hos 11:5, see especially Jer 3:3; Jer 5:3 (twice in verse); Jer 8:5; Jer 9:5; Jer 11:10; compare Jer 25:28; Zec 7:11; without Infinitive = be recusant Pro 1:24; Isa 1:20 once subject ׳י Num 22:13 (E).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Unwilling40 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0