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מָנֶה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4488

maneh — used 5 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

Meaning

OpenScriptures lexical index

maneh tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מָנֶה: n.m. maneh, mina tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.m. maneh, mina, a weight (perhaps orig. a specific part; NH id.; Assyrian manû DlHWB 417; Aramaic ܡܰܢܝܳܐ, מַנְיָא);—מ׳ Ez 45:12; מָנִים 1 K 10:17 + 3 times;=50 shekels Ez 45:12 (on חֲמִשִּׁים for חֲמִשָּׁה v. Hi Co); of gold 1 K 10:17; of silver Ezr 2:69 Ne 7:71, 72.—The weight of the mina was 1/60 of talent; i.e. according to older (Bab.) standard, 982.2 grammes (=60 shekels at c. 16.37 g.)=c. 2 lbs.; in Ezekiel’s time the mina=50 shekels=818.6 g.=c. 1 2/3 lb. (cf. כִּכָּר, שֶׁקֶל). Vid. BenzArch. 187 ff. 194 NowArch. i. 208 f.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: minas (4); mina (1).

In the verses

Nehemiah 7:70 · tree →

וּמֵֽרָאשֵׁ֣י הָֽאָב֗וֹת נָֽתְנוּ֙ לְאוֹצַ֣ר הַמְּלָאכָ֔ה זָהָ֕ב דַּרְכְּמוֹנִ֖ים שְׁתֵּ֣י רִבּ֑וֹת וְכֶ֕סֶף מָנִ֖ים אַלְפַּ֥יִם וּמָאתָֽיִם׃

Word for word: and some of.the.heads of the.fathers they.gave to the.treasury of the.work gold drachmas two ten.thousands and silver minas two.thousand and two.hundred

JPS 1917: And some from among the heads of fathers' houses gave unto the work. The Tirshatha gave to the treasury a thousand darics of gold, fifty basins, five hundred and thirty priests' tunics.

Nehemiah 7:71 · tree →

וַאֲשֶׁ֣ר נָתְנוּ֮ שְׁאֵרִ֣ית הָעָם֒ זָהָ֗ב דַּרְכְּמוֹנִים֙ שְׁתֵּ֣י רִבּ֔וֹא וְכֶ֖סֶף מָנִ֣ים אַלְפָּ֑יִם וְכָתְנֹ֥ת כֹּֽהֲנִ֖ים שִׁשִּׁ֥ים וְשִׁבְעָֽה׃פ

Word for word: and.[that] which they.gave the.remainder of the.people [was].gold drachmas two ten.thousand and silver minas two.thousand and tunics of.priests sixty and seven

JPS 1917: And some of the heads of fathers' houses gave into the treasury of the work twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand and two hundred pounds of silver.

On Mova

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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