Hebrew noun (masculine) · H4478
מָן
manmawn
manna; What?
14 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: mân
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4478is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 39Old Testament books
- 9spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4478
literally a whatness (so to speak), i.e. manna (so called from the question about it)
The King James renders it: manna.
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
man is rendered "manna; What?". It stands 14 times in the Hebrew text, across six books.
- Five of the uses stand in Exodus, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "manna".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 16:15When the Israelites saw it, they asked one another, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was. So Moses told them, “It is the bread that the LORD has given you to eat.
- The Greek text spells it nine different ways.
The first use
When the Israelites saw it, they asked one another, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was. So Moses told them, “It is the bread that the LORD has given you to eat.
Exodus 16:15מָ֣ן
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
The word carries two meanings: manna, and What?.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| mannaStrong's entry A | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereExodus 16:15When the Israelites saw it, they asked one another… |
| What?Strong's entry B | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- the manna6
- manna5
- and manna your1
- and the manna1
- what1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| מָן | man | who? | Uses10 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 14, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
9 spellings 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
- הַמָּן֙3
- מָ֑ן3
- מָ֣ן2
- הַמָּ֥ן1
- הַמָּ֖ן1
- הַמָּ֜ן1
- וְהַמָּ֕ן1
- וּמַנְךָ֙1
- מָן֙1
The grammar of each form
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular6HTd/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular5HNcmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular1HC/Ncmsc/Sp2ms
- conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular1HC/Td/Ncmsa
- question word1HPi
Exodus
five uses
When the Israelites saw it, they asked one another, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was. So Moses told them, “It is the bread that the LORD has given you to eat.
- מָ֣ןmanquestion wordtagged: what
Now the house of Israel called the bread manna. It was white like coriander seed and tasted like wafers made with honey.
- מָ֑ןmannoun · masculine singulartagged: manna
So Moses told Aaron, “Take a jar and fill it with an omer of manna. Then place it before the LORD to be preserved for the generations to come.”
- מָ֑ןmannoun · masculine singulartagged: manna
The Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a land where they could settle; they ate manna until they reached the border of Canaan.
- הַמָּן֙hamanthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the manna
- הַמָּן֙hamanthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the manna
Numbers
three uses
But now our appetite is gone; there is nothing to see but this manna!”
- הַמָּ֥ןhamanthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the manna
Now the manna resembled coriander seed, and its appearance was like that of gum resin.
- וְהַמָּ֕ןvehamanconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and the manna
When the dew fell on the camp at night, the manna would fall with it.
- הַמָּ֖ןhamanthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the manna
Deuteronomy
two uses
He humbled you, and in your hunger He gave you manna to eat, which neither you nor your fathers had known, so that you might understand that man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.
- הַמָּן֙hamanthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the manna
He fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers had not known, in order to humble you and test you, so that in the end He might cause you to prosper.
- מָן֙mannoun · masculine singulartagged: manna
Joshua
two uses
And the day after they had eaten from the produce of the land, the manna ceased. There was no more manna for the Israelites, so that year they began to eat the crops of the land of Canaan.
- הַמָּ֜ןhamanthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the manna
- מָ֑ןmannoun · masculine singulartagged: manna
Nehemiah
one use
You gave Your good Spirit to instruct them. You did not withhold Your manna from their mouths, and You gave them water for their thirst.
- וּמַנְךָ֙umankhaconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: and manna your
Psalms
one use
He rained down manna for them to eat; He gave them grain from heaven.
- מָ֣ןmannoun · masculine singulartagged: manna
The letters
Gematria 90· 740 mispar gadol
Where it leads
Studies that open this word1
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.