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# מָנַע

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4513

**withhold** — used 29 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

withhold [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4513/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מָנַע: vb. withhold, hold back [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4513/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. withhold, hold back (NH id.; Zinj. מנע DHMSendsch. 60; Arabic مَنَعَ; Sab. מנע Levy-OsZMG xix. 1865, 268; Aramaic מְנַע);— Pf. מ׳ Gn 30:2; sf. מְנָעַ֫נִי 1 S 25:34; מָנַ֫עְתָּ ψ 21:3 Ne 9:20, etc.; Impf. יִמְנַע־ ψ 84:12; sf. יִמְנָעֵ֫נִי 2 S 13:13 etc.; Imv. מְנַע Pr 1:15; מִנְעִי Je 2:25; 31:16; Pt. מֹנֵעַ Pr 11:26 Je 48:10;—withhold, sq. מִן Gn 30:2 (obj. פְּרִי־בֶטֶן), Am 4:7 (rain), Ne 9:20 (manna; all subj. י׳); Jb 22:7 (bread), 1 K 20:7 (obj. om.; both hum. subj.), so Je 48:10 (sword), Ec 2:10 (heart), Je 5:25 (good), Pr 3:27 (id.), 1:15 (foot); Je 2:25 (id.) 31:16 (voice); further, 2 S 13:13 (woman), Je 42:4 (דָּבָר), Jb 31:16 (מן part.), Pr 23:13 (correction), obj. om. י׳ subj. Pr 30:7; מִן om. Pr 11:26 (obj. corn); cf. ψ 21:3 subj. י׳ (obj. אֲרֶשֶׁת שְׂפָתָיו ‖ נָתַן תַּאֲוַת לֵב), Jb 20:13 fig. (wickedness), Ez 31:15 י׳ subj. (obj. rivers); obj. pers. י׳ subj. sq. מן Nu 24:11; sq. מִן + inf. 1 S 25:26, 34; sq. לְ, subj. י׳ ψ 84:12 (good). Pf. נִמְנַע Jo 1:13; Impf. יִמָּנַע Jb 38:15, etc.; be withholden sq. מִן, subj. מִנְחָה etc. Jo 1:13; light from wicked Jb 38:15; Nu 22:16 (sq. מִן + inf.); subj. showers (רְבִבִים) Je 3:3.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 29 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: he (5); restrain (3); I restrained (2).

## In the verses

[Job 22:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.22.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.22.7/#tree)

לֹא־מַ֭יִם עָיֵ֣ף תַּשְׁקֶ֑ה וּ֝מֵרָעֵ֗ב תִּֽמְנַֽע־לָֽחֶם׃

*Word for word:* not water \[the\].weary you.have.given.to.drink and from.\[the\] hungry you.have.withheld bread

*JPS 1917:* Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.

[Job 31:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.31.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.31.16/#tree)

אִם־אֶ֭מְנַע מֵחֵ֣פֶץ דַּלִּ֑ים וְעֵינֵ֖י אַלְמָנָ֣ה אֲכַלֶּֽה׃

*Word for word:* if I.restrained from desire poor.\[people\] and.\[the\] eyes of.a.widow I.caused.to.fail

*JPS 1917:* If I have withheld aught that the poor desired, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4513.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4513/): 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).