Hebrew adjective · H3986
מָאֵן
maenmaw-ane'
refusing
4 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: mâʼên
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3986is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 1spelling
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3986
unwilling
The King James renders it: refuse.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
maen is rendered "refusing". It stands 4 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Three of the uses stand in Exodus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 8:2But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs.
The first use
But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs.
Exodus 8:2מָאֵ֥ן
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- refusing4
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| מָאֵן | maen | to refuse | Uses41 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
1 spelling and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- מָאֵ֥ן4
The grammar of each form
- verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singular4HVprmsa
Exodus
three uses
But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs.
- מָאֵ֥ןmaenverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singulartagged: refusing
But if you continue to restrain them and refuse to let them go,
- מָאֵ֥ןmaenverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singulartagged: refusing
But if you refuse to let My people go, I will bring locusts into your territory tomorrow.
- מָאֵ֥ןmaenverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singulartagged: refusing
Jeremiah
one use
But if you refuse to surrender, this is the word that the LORD has shown me:
- מָאֵ֥ןmaenverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singulartagged: refusing
The letters
Gematria 91· 741 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.