Hebrew verb (Aramaic) · H4483
מְנָא
menamen-aw'
to reckon/appoint
5 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: mᵉnâʼ
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4483is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4483
to count, appoint
The King James renders it: number, ordain, set.
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
mena is rendered "to reckon/appoint". It stands 5 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Four of the uses stand in Daniel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Ezra 7:25And you, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God which you possess, are to appoint magistrates and judges to judge all the people west of the Euphrates—all who know the laws of your God. And you are to teach these laws to anyone who does not know them.
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
And you, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God which you possess, are to appoint magistrates and judges to judge all the people west of the Euphrates—all who know the laws of your God. And you are to teach these laws to anyone who does not know them.
Ezra 7:25מֶ֣נִּי
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
- and he appointed1
- appoint1
- he had appointed1
- he has numbered1
- you have appointed1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| מְנָת | menath | portion | Uses8 |
All 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 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
- וּמַנִּ֗י1
- מְנָֽה־1
- מֶ֣נִּי1
- מַנִּ֣י1
- מַנִּ֤יתָ1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1AC/Vpp3ms
- verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular1AVpp2ms
- verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1AVpp3ms
- verb · intensive (piel), command · 2nd person masculine singular1AVpv2ms
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1AVqp3ms
Ezra
one use
And you, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God which you possess, are to appoint magistrates and judges to judge all the people west of the Euphrates—all who know the laws of your God. And you are to teach these laws to anyone who does not know them.
- מֶ֣נִּיmeniverb · intensive (piel), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: appoint
Daniel
four uses
Therefore Daniel went to Arioch, whom the king had appointed to destroy the wise men of Babylon, and said to him, “Do not execute the wise men of Babylon! Bring me before the king, and I will give him the interpretation.”
- מַנִּ֣יmaniverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he had appointed
And at Daniel’s request, the king appointed Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego to manage the province of Babylon, while Daniel remained in the king’s court.
- וּמַנִּ֗יumaniconjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and he appointed
But there are some Jews you have appointed to manage the province of Babylon—Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego—who have ignored you, O king, and have refused to serve your gods or worship the golden statue you have set up.”
- מַנִּ֤יתָmanitaverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have appointed
And this is the interpretation of the message: MENE means that God has numbered the days of your reign and brought it to an end.
- מְנָֽה־menah-verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has numbered
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.