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# מָן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4478

**manna** — used 13 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

manna [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4478/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מָן: n.m. manna [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4478/#m2)

**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 agrees, 11 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (14 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (9 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: manna (13).

## In the verses

[Numbers 11:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.11.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.11.6/#tree)

וְעַתָּ֛ה נַפְשֵׁ֥נוּ יְבֵשָׁ֖ה אֵ֣ין כֹּ֑ל בִּלְתִּ֖י אֶל־הַמָּ֥ן עֵינֵֽינוּ׃

*Word for word:* and now appetite our \[is\].dry there.\[is\].not anything except \[are\].to the manna eyes our

*JPS 1917:* but now our soul is dried away; there is nothing at all; we have nought save this manna to look to.' —

[Psalms 78:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.78.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.78.24/#tree)

וַיַּמְטֵ֬ר עֲלֵיהֶ֣ם מָ֣ן לֶאֱכֹ֑ל וּדְגַן־שָׁ֝מַ֗יִם נָ֣תַן לָֽמוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and he.rained.down on them manna to eat and.\[the\] grain of.heaven he.gave to them

*JPS 1917:* And He caused manna to rain upon them for food, and gave them of the corn of heaven.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4478.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4478/): 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).