מָן
mân · H4478 · Hebrew · 14 occurrences
Meanings
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manna
Substance described as falling from heaven to feed the Israelites in the desert, sometimes identified with the honeylike liquid dropping from tamarisk trees; its name is associated with the interrogative pronoun meaning "what (is it)?"
ExamplesExodus 16:31 And the house of Israel named the bread manna, and it was like coriander seed, white, and its taste was like wafers with honey.
Exodus 16:33 And Moses said to Aaron, “Take a jar and put a full omer of manna in it, and place it before the LORD to be kept safe throughout your generations.”
Exodus 16:35 And the sons of Israel ate the manna for forty years, until they came to an inhabited land; they ate the manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.
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what?
A reference to an unknown object; normally used with the purpose of identifying it
ExamplesExodus 16:15 When the sons of Israel saw it, they said to one another, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, “It is the bread which the LORD has given you to eat.
How it’s used In 8 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ךָyour 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- יָדַעto know 3
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מְלֹאgroup 1
What it doesIt is the subject
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- הָיָהto be, to become 1
- יָרַדto go down, to come down 1
- שָׁבַתto cease, to rest, to put an end 1
What is done to itIt is the object
4 occurrences in 3 groups
- אָכַלto eat, to devour 2
- מָטַרto send rain 1
- מָנַעto withhold 1
Second object ofSecond object
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- אָכַלto eat, to devour 2
- קָרָאto call, to cry out 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הוּאhe, she, it 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אֵלto, toward 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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Semantic domains 2 entries
- Food001003001003
- מָן denotes manna, the bread-like substance the LORD provides for Israel to eat in the wilderness, described as like coriander seed and tasting of honey wafers.
- Object Referents003001
- מָן functions as the name for this specific miraculous substance itself, the physical object the Israelites gather, store in a jar, and eat for forty years.
Word family 9 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4478. man I. מָן noun masculineNum 11:9 manna (= Arabic , known to Bedouin in Sinai…
I. מָן noun masculineNum 11:9 manna (= Arabic , known to Bedouin in Sinai Peninsula; a juice exuding in heavy drops from twigs (some say also the leaves) of ˆarfa (ˆªrfa) tree (tamarix gallica mannifera) in West Sinai Peninsula, end of May and in June, sweet, sticky, honey-like; compare DiExo 16:36 RobBRi. 75, 115, 590 EbGS 233 ff., 574 ff. SocZMG xxxiv. 1881, 254); — ׳מ absolute Exo 16:15 Exo 16:12t., suffix מַנֵךָ Neh 9:20: — manna: מַההֿוּא יָָֽדְעוּ לֹא כִּי הוּא מָן וַיּאֹמְרוּ Exo 16:15; Exo 16:31; Exo 16:33; Exo 16:35; Exo 16:35; Num 11:6-7, Num 11:9 (described Exo 16:14, Exo 16:31; Num 11:7; accompare dew Exo 16:14; Num 11:9); ceased after Israel reached Canaan Jos 5:12 (twice in verse); as 2nd accusativeאֶתהַֿמָּן הֶאֱכִילְךָ Deu 8:3, compare Deu 8:16 עֲלֵיהֶם וַיַּמְטֵר לֶאֱכֹל מָן Psa 78:24; מִמִּיהֶם לֹאמָֿנַעְתָּ וּמַנְךָ Neh 9:20.
II. מָן in Exo 16:15 (with reference to the manna) יָָֽדְעוּ לֹא כִּי הוּא מָן אֶלאָֿחִיו אִישׁ וַיּאֹמְרוּ מַההֿוּא, most probably 'What is it?' the question being intended as a popular etymology of מָן 'manna,' based upon the late Aramaic What ? (man is 'Who?' in Arabic, Aramaic מַן ), Mandaean (מאן), Ethiopic (manu), 'What?' in these dialects being מָה מָא (Ethiopic ment); מָן in the sense of 'What?' must correspond to the later Syriac contracted from מָדֵין ᵑ7 Nö§ 68 WSG 125).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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
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