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Lexicon :: Strong's H4478 - mān

Aa
מָן
Transliteration
mān
Pronunciation
mawn
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1208,1209

Strong’s Definitions

מָן mân, mawn; from H4100; literally a whatness (so to speak), i.e. manna (so called from the question about it):—manna.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 14x

The KJV translates Strong's H4478 in the following manner: manna (14x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 14x
The KJV translates Strong's H4478 in the following manner: manna (14x).

  1. manna

    1. the bread from Heaven that fed the Israelites for 40 years of wilderness wanderings

    2. means 'What is it?'

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מָן mân, mawn; from H4100; literally a whatness (so to speak), i.e. manna (so called from the question about it):—manna.
STRONGS H4478: Abbreviations
† I. מָן noun masculineNumbers 11:9 manna (= Arabic bdb057702, known to Bedouin in Sinai Peninsula; a juice exuding in heavy drops from twigs (some say also the leaves) of Ṭarfa (Ṭŭrfa) tree (tamarix gallica mannifera) in West Sinai Peninsula, end of May and in June, sweet, sticky, honey-like; compare DiExodus 16:36 RobBRi. 75, 115, 590 EbGS 233 ff., 574 ff. SocZMG xxxiv. 1881, 254); — מ׳ absolute Exodus 16:15 + 12 times, suffix מַנֵךָ Nehemiah 9:20: — manna: מַההֿוּא יָֽךְעוּ לֹא כִּי הוּא מָן וַיּאֹמְרוּ Exodus 16:15; Exodus 16:31; Exodus 16:33; Exodus 16:35; Exodus 16:35; Numbers 11:6, 7, 9 (described Exodus 16:14, 31; Numbers 11:7; accompare dew Exodus 16:14; Numbers 11:9); ceased after Israel reached Canaan Joshua 5:12 (twice in verse); as 2nd accusativeהֶאֱכִילְךָ אֶתהַֿמָּן Deuteronomy 8:3, compare Deuteronomy 8:16 מָן לֶאֱכֹל וַיַּמְטֵר עֲלֵיהֶם Psalm 78:24; מִפִּיהֶם לֹאמָֿנַעְת וּמַנְךָ Nehemiah 9:20.

† II. מָן in Exodus 16:15 (with reference to the manna) יָֽדְעוּ לֹא כִּי הוּא מָן אֶלאָֿחִיו אִיש וַיּאֹמְרו מַההֿוּא, most probably 'What is it?' the question being intended as a popular etymology of מָן 'manna,' based upon the late Aramaic bdb057703 What ? (man is 'Who?' in Arabic, Aramaic מַן bdb057704), Mandaean (מאן), Ethiopic (manu), 'What?' in these dialects being bdb057705 מָה bdb057706 מָא (Ethiopic ment); מָן in the sense of 'What?' must correspond to the later Syriac bdb057707 contracted from bdb057708 Targum מָדֵין Nö§ 68 WSG 125).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Exodus

16:14; 16:14; 16:15; 16:15; 16:15; 16:31; 16:31; 16:33; 16:35; 16:35; 16:36

Numbers

11:6; 11:7; 11:7; 11:9; 11:9; 11:9

Deuteronomy

8:3; 8:16

Joshua

5:12

Nehemiah

9:20; 9:20

Psalms

78:24

H4478

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Strong's Number H4478 matches the Hebrew מָן (mān),
which occurs 14 times in 12 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:15 - And when the children of Israel saw it, they said to one another, What is it? for they had no idea what it was. And Moses said to them, It is the bread which the Lord has given you for your food.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:31

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:31 - And this bread was named manna by Israel: it was white, like a grain seed, and its taste was like cakes made with honey.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:33

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:33 - And Moses said to Aaron, Take a pot and put one omer of manna in it, and put it away before the Lord, to be kept for future generations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:35

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:35 - And the children of Israel had manna for their food for forty years, till they came to a land with people in it, till they came to the edge of the land of Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:6 - But now our soul is wasted away; there is nothing at all: we have nothing but this manna before our eyes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:7 - Now the manna was like a seed of grain, like small clear drops.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:9 - When the dew came down on the tents at night, the manna came down with it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:3 - And he made low your pride and let you be without food and gave you manna for your food, a thing new to you, which your fathers never saw; so that he might make it clear to you that bread is not man's only need, but his life is in every word which comes out of the mouth of the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:16 - Who gave you manna for your food in the waste land, a food which your fathers had never seen; so that your pride might be broken and your hearts tested for your good in the end;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:12 - And there was no more manna from the day after they had for their food the produce of the land; the children of Israel had manna no longer, but that year the produce of the land of Canaan was their food.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:20 - And you gave your good spirit to be their teacher, and did not keep back your manna from their mouths, and gave them water when they had need of it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:24

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:24 - And he sent down manna like rain for their food, and gave them the grain of heaven.
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