מָן

Biblical Hebrew

manna — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

Meaning

OpenScriptures lexical index

manna tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מָן: n.m. manna tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.m. Nu 11:9 manna ( = Arabic مَنٌّ, known to Beduin in Sin. Penin.; a juice exuding in heavy drops from twigs (some say also the leaves) of Ṭarfa (Ṭŭrfa) tree (tamarix gallica mannifera) in W. Sin. Penin., end of May and in June, sweet, sticky, honey-like; cf. Di Ex 16:36 RobBR i, 75, 115, 590 EbGS 233 ff., 574 ff. SocZMG xxxv. 1881, 254);—מ׳ abs. Ex 16:15 + 12 times, sf. מַנְךָ Ne 9:20:—manna: וַיֹּאמְרוּ מָן הוּא כִּי לֹא יָֽדְעוּ מַה־הוּא Ex 16:15; v 31, 33, 35(×2) Nu 11:6, 7, 9 (described Ex 16:14, 31 Nu 11:7; accomp. dew Ex 16:14 Nu 11:9); ceased after Israel reached Canaan Jos 5:12(×2); as 2nd acc. הֶאֱכִילְךָ אֶת־הַמָּן Dt 8:3, cf. v 16; וַיּמְטֵר עֲלֵיהֶם מָן לֶאֱכֹל ψ 78:24; וּמַנְךָ לֹא־מָנַעְתָּ מִפִּיהֶם Ne 9:20.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (13 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (9 candidates)

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: what? (1).

In the verses

Exodus 16:15 · tree →

וַיִּרְא֣וּ בְנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל וַיֹּ֨אמְר֜וּ אִ֤ישׁ אֶל־אָחִיו֙ מָ֣ן ה֔וּא כִּ֛י לֹ֥א יָדְע֖וּ מַה־ה֑וּא וַיֹּ֤אמֶר מֹשֶׁה֙ אֲלֵהֶ֔ם ה֣וּא הַלֶּ֔חֶם אֲשֶׁ֨ר נָתַ֧ן יְהוָ֛ה לָכֶ֖ם לְאָכְלָֽה׃

Word for word: and they.saw the.people of.Israel and they.said each to brother his what? [is].it (dm) not they.knew what? [was].it and he.said Moses to them it [is].the bread which he.has.given Yahweh to you to food

JPS 1917: And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another: 'What is it?' — for they knew not what it was. And Moses said unto them: 'It is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat.

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Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).

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