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# מָן

Biblical Aramaic

**who?** — used 10 times in the Aramaic chapters of the Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

who? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b8_5df/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַן: interr. pron. who [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b8_5df/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** (so Gi, with most MSS., supported by Syriac ܡܰܢ, Arabic مِنْ; v. K§ 22, 1), מָן (Baer: v. on Dn 3:6), interr. pron. who? (Old Aramaic Nab. Palm. מן (Lzb312 Cooke188), 𝔗 מן, Syriac ܡܰܢ, Ethiopic መኑ Arabic مَنْ: WCG 123: BH מִי);— who? Ezr 5:3, 9; strengthened by הוּא, Dn 3:15 וּמַן־הוּא אֱלָהּ דִּי who is the God who …? (cf. Syriac ܡܰܢܽܘ contr. from ܡܰܢ ܗܽܘ, and מַנּוּ in the Syriacizing 𝔗 to Pr: also BH מִי הוּא, הוּא 4 b β); so in the pl. Ezr 5:4 מַן־אִנּוּן שְׁמָהָת what (lit. who: cf. מִי 1 a, and Gn 32:28; Ex 3:13 𝔗) are the names of …? מַן־דִּי whosoever (lit. who is there that …? v. BH מִי g) Dn 3:6, 11 מַן־דִּי לָא יִפֵּל, 4:14 וּלְמַן דִּי יִצְבֵּא יִתְּנִנַּהּ to whomsoever he willeth, he giveth it, v 22, 29; 5:21 (so Nab. מן די, Cooke241, 325 ff.; 𝔗 מַן דְּ; Syriac ܡܰܢ ܕ; cf. Egyptian Aramaic S-CPap. K 7, 12 ולמן זי צבית תנתן).

### Jastrow 1903

מָן I: portion, food man the manna [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b8_5df/#m3)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** portion, food. Num. R. s. 12 (play on א̇ר̇ג̇מ̇ן̇) the sun שיצרו הקב"ה לארוג מן וכ׳ whom the Lord has created to weave (ripen) food for creatures; ואין מן אלא פירות וכ׳ man means fruits and food (with ref. to וימן, Dan. I, 5).—Esp. מָּן(הַ) the manna of the desert. Ex. R. s. 25. Tanḥ. B’shall. 20; Mekh. ib., Vayassa, s. 2 אוכלי המן those eating manna (not troubling themselves about to-morrow). Yoma 75ᵃ; a. fr.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech not compared, 10 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (14 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: whomever (4); who? (3); whoever (2).

## In the verses

[Ezra 5:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.5.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.5.4/#tree)

אֱדַ֥יִן כְּנֵ֖מָא אֲמַ֣רְנָא לְּהֹ֑ם מַן־אִנּוּן֙ שְׁמָהָ֣ת גֻּבְרַיָּ֔א דִּֽי־דְנָ֥ה בִנְיָנָ֖א בָּנַֽיִן׃

*Word for word:* then as.follows we.said to them what? \[are\].they the.names of the.men who this the building \[are\].building

*JPS 1917:* 'Then spoke we unto them after this manner, wrote they: What are the names of the men that build this building?'

[Daniel 3:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.3.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.3.11/#tree)

וּמַן־דִּי־לָ֥א יִפֵּ֖ל וְיִסְגֻּ֑ד יִתְרְמֵ֕א לְגֽוֹא־אַתּ֥וּן נוּרָ֖א יָקִֽדְתָּֽא׃

*Word for word:* and whoever that not he.will.fall.down and he.will.pay.homage he.will.be.thrown to the.midst of.the.furnace of the.fire (the) burning

*JPS 1917:* and whoso falleth not down and worshippeth shall be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.

## In Targum Onkelos

Number 124 of the commonest words of Targum Onkelos, the Aramaic translation of the Torah: used 49 times there, in the forms מָן (39); וּמָן (5); לְמָן (5).

[Exodus 4:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.4.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.4.13/#tree) · Onkelos, then the Hebrew

וַאֲמַר בְּבָעוּ יְיָ שְׁלַח כְּעַן בְּיַד מָן דְכָשַׁר דְתִשְׁלַח:

וַיֹּ֖אמֶר בִּ֣יּ אֲדֹנָ֑י שְֽׁלַֽח־נָ֖א בְּיַד־תִּשְׁלָֽח׃

*Word for word:* and he.said pardon.me Lord my send please by the.hand of.\[whomever\].you.will.send

*JPS 1917:* And he said: 'Oh Lord, send, I pray Thee, by the hand of him whom Thou wilt send.'

[Exodus 32:33](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.32.33/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.32.33/#tree) · Onkelos, then the Hebrew

וַאֲמַר יְיָ לְמשֶׁה מָן דִי חַב קֳדָמַי אֶמְחִנֵהּ מִסִפְרִי:

וַיֹּ֥אמֶר יְהוָ֖ה אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֑ה מִ֚י אֲשֶׁ֣ר חָֽטָא־לִ֔י אֶמְחֶ֖נּוּ מִסִּפְרִֽי׃

*Word for word:* and he.said Yahweh to Moses who? \[is.the.one\].who he.has.sinned to me I will.wipe.him.out from book my

*JPS 1917:* And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Whosoever hath sinned against Me, him will I blot out of My book.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5de_5b8_5df.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b8_5df/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

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).