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# מָנָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4490

**part** — used 12 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

part [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4490/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מָנָה²: n.f. part, portion [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4490/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. part, portion;—מ׳ Ex 29:26 + 4 times; (on מְנָֽת־ Je 13:25, cf. ψ 16:5, v. מְנָת); pl. מָנוֹת 1 S 1:4 + 5 times; sf. מָֽנוֹתָ֫יהָ Est 2:9;—part, portion, especially choice portion, Ex 29:26 Lv 7:33; 8:29 (all of sacrificial animal; all P); cf. 2 Ch 31:19; also 1 S 1:4, 5; 9:23; of distrib. of choice bits Ne 8:10, 12 Est 9:19, 22; cf. also Est 2:9 (v. Dn 1:5, 10).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 12 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: portions (5); a portion (4); of portions (2).

## In the verses

[1 Samuel 1:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.1.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.1.5/#tree)

וּלְחַנָּ֕ה יִתֵּ֛ן מָנָ֥ה אַחַ֖ת אַפָּ֑יִם כִּ֤י אֶת־חַנָּה֙ אָהֵ֔ב וַֽיהוָ֖ה סָגַ֥ר רַחְמָֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* and to Hannah he.gave a.portion one double (dm) (et) Hannah he.loved and Yahweh he.had.closed womb her

*JPS 1917:* but unto Hannah he gave a double portion; for he loved Hannah, but the LORD had shut up her womb.

[Leviticus 7:33](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.7.33/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.7.33/#tree)

הַמַּקְרִ֞יב אֶת־דַּ֧ם הַשְּׁלָמִ֛ים וְאֶת־הַחֵ֖לֶב מִבְּנֵ֣י אַהֲרֹ֑ן ל֧וֹ תִהְיֶ֛ה שׁ֥וֹק הַיָּמִ֖ין לְמָנָֽה׃

*Word for word:* the.\[one who\].presents (et) the.blood of the.peace.offerings and (et) the fat from the.sons of.Aaron to him it.will.belong the.thigh of the.right to a.portion

*JPS 1917:* He among the sons of Aaron, that offereth the blood of the peace-offerings, and the fat, shall have the right thigh for a portion.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4490.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4490/): 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).