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Hebrew verb · H4487

מָנָה

manahmaw-naw'

to count

28 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: mânâh

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4487is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 14 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 24
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H4487

properly, to weigh out; by implication, to allot or constitute officially; also to enumerate or enroll

The King James renders it: appoint, count, number, prepare, set, tell.

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

manah is rendered "to count". It stands 28 times in the Hebrew text, across fourteen books.

  • Four of the uses stand in 1 Chronicles, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 13:16I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if one could count the dust of the earth, then your offspring could be counted.
  • The Greek text spells it twenty-four different ways.

The first use

I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if one could count the dust of the earth, then your offspring could be counted.

Genesis 13:16לִמְנוֹת֙

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

The word stands in fourteen of the 39 Old Testament books.

The other 25 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • to count5
  • and he appointed4
  • they were numbered2
  • and he assigned1
  • and I will appoint1
  • and they counted1
  • appoint1
  • appointed1
  • count1
  • counting1
  • counts1
  • has he counted1

and 8 more, 28 uses in all

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.

מָנָהmanahportionUses13

Other numbers on this spelling

Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.

The words it stands beside

All 28, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

24 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

  • וַיְמַ֤ן2
  • יִמָּנ֖וּ2
  • לִמְנוֹת֙2
  • לִמְנ֣וֹת2
  • וַיְמַן֩1
  • וַיְמַ֣ן1
  • וַיְמַ֨ן1
  • וַיִּמְנ֔וּ1
  • וּמָנִ֨יתִי1
  • יִמָּנֶ֛ה1
  • יִמָּנֶֽה׃1
  • לְהִמָּנֽוֹת׃1

and 12 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • Hc/Vpw3ms5Hc/Vpw3ms
  • preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)5HR/Vqcc
  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural2HVNi3mp
  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular2HVNi3ms
  • verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular2HVpp3ms
  • verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular2HVqrmsa
  • Hc/Vqq1cs1Hc/Vqq1cs
  • Hc/Vqw3mp1Hc/Vqw3mp
  • preposition + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), infinitive (“to…”)1HR/VNcc
  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVNp3ms
  • verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural1HVpp3cp
  • verb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · masculine plural1HVPsmpa

Genesis

two uses
  • I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if one could count the dust of the earth, then your offspring could be counted.

    Genesis 13:16

    • לִמְנוֹת֙limnotpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to count
    • יִמָּנֶֽה׃yimanehverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will numbered

Numbers

one use
  • Who can count the dust of Jacob or number even a fourth of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous; let my end be like theirs!”

    Numbers 23:10

    • מָנָה֙manahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: has he counted

2 Samuel

one use
  • Again the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He stirred up David against them, saying, “Go and take a census of Israel and Judah.”

    2 Samuel 24:1

    • מְנֵ֥הmenehverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: count

1 Kings

three uses
  • Your servant is here among the people You have chosen, a people too numerous to count or number.

    1 Kings 3:8

    • יִמָּנֶ֛הyimanehverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will be numbered
  • There, before the ark, King Solomon and the whole congregation of Israel who had assembled with him sacrificed so many sheep and oxen that they could not be counted or numbered.

    1 Kings 8:5

    • יִמָּנ֖וּyimanuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they were numbered
  • And you must raise an army like the one you have lost—horse for horse and chariot for chariot—so we can fight the Israelites on the plain, where we will surely prevail.” And the king approved their plan and acted accordingly.

    1 Kings 20:25

    • תִֽמְנֶה־timneh-verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will muster

2 Kings

one use
  • Whenever they saw that there was a large amount of money in the chest, the royal scribe and the high priest would go up, count the money brought into the house of the LORD, and tie it up in bags.

    2 Kings 12:10

    • וַיִּמְנ֔וּvaiyimnuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they counted

1 Chronicles

four uses
  • Others were put in charge of the furnishings and other articles of the sanctuary, as well as the fine flour, wine, oil, frankincense, and spices.

    1 Chronicles 9:29

    • מְמֻנִּים֙memunimverb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · masculine pluraltagged: appointed
  • Then Satan rose up against Israel and incited David to take a census of Israel.

    1 Chronicles 21:1

    • לִמְנ֖וֹתlimnotpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to count
  • And David said to God, “Was it not I who gave the order to count the people? I am the one who has sinned and acted wickedly. But these sheep, what have they done? O LORD my God, please let Your hand fall upon me and my father’s house, but do not let this plague remain upon Your people.”

    1 Chronicles 21:17

    • לִמְנ֣וֹתlimnotpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to count
  • Joab son of Zeruiah began to count the men but did not finish. For because of this census wrath came upon Israel, and the number was not entered in the Book of the Chronicles of King David.

    1 Chronicles 27:24

    • לִמְנוֹת֙limnotpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to count

2 Chronicles

one use
  • There, before the ark, King Solomon and the whole congregation of Israel who had assembled with him sacrificed so many sheep and oxen that they could not be counted or numbered.

    2 Chronicles 5:6

    • יִמָּנ֖וּyimanuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they were numbered

Job

one use
  • So I am allotted months of futility, and nights of misery are appointed me.

    Job 7:3

    • מִנּוּ־minu-verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: people have allotted

Psalms

three uses
  • May he sit enthroned in God’s presence forever; appoint Your loving devotion and Your faithfulness to guard him.

    Psalms 61:7

    • מַ֣ןmanverb · intensive (piel), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: appoint
  • So teach us to number our days, that we may present a heart of wisdom.

    Psalms 90:12

    • לִמְנ֣וֹתlimnotpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to count
  • He determines the number of the stars; He calls them each by name.

    Psalms 147:4

    • מוֹנֶ֣הmonehverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: counting

Ecclesiastes

one use
  • What is crooked cannot be straightened, and what is lacking cannot be counted.

    Ecclesiastes 1:15

    • לְהִמָּנֽוֹת׃lehimanotpreposition + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to be numbered

Isaiah

two uses
  • Therefore I will allot Him a portion with the great, and He will divide the spoils with the strong, because He has poured out His life unto death, and He was numbered with the transgressors. Yet He bore the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors.

    Isaiah 53:12

    • נִמְנָ֑הnimnahverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he was numbered
  • I will destine you for the sword, and you will all kneel down to be slaughtered, because I called and you did not answer, I spoke and you did not listen; you did evil in My sight and chose that in which I did not delight.”

    Isaiah 65:12

    • וּמָנִ֨יתִיumanitiHc/Vqq1cstagged: and I will appoint

Jeremiah

one use
  • In the cities of the hill country, the foothills, and the Negev, in the land of Benjamin and the cities surrounding Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, the flocks will again pass under the hands of the one who counts them, says the LORD.

    Jeremiah 33:13

    • מוֹנֶ֖הmonehverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: counts

Daniel

three uses
  • The king assigned them daily provisions of the royal food and wine. They were to be trained for three years, after which they were to enter the king’s service.

    Daniel 1:5

    • וַיְמַן֩vaymanHc/Vpw3mstagged: and he assigned
  • but he said to Daniel, “I fear my lord the king, who has assigned your food and drink. For why should he see your faces looking thinner than those of the other young men your age? You would endanger my head before the king!”

    Daniel 1:10

    • מִנָּ֔הminahverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has assigned
  • Then Daniel said to the steward whom the chief official had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,

    Daniel 1:11

    • מִנָּה֙minahverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he had assigned

Jonah

four uses
  • Now the LORD had appointed a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah spent three days and three nights in the belly of the fish.

    Jonah 1:17

    • וַיְמַ֤ןvaymanHc/Vpw3mstagged: and he appointed
  • So the LORD God appointed a vine, and it grew up to provide shade over Jonah’s head to ease his discomfort, and Jonah was greatly pleased with the plant.

    Jonah 4:6

    • וַיְמַ֣ןvaymanHc/Vpw3mstagged: and he appointed
  • When dawn came the next day, God appointed a worm that attacked the plant so that it withered.

    Jonah 4:7

    • וַיְמַ֤ןvaymanHc/Vpw3mstagged: and he appointed
  • As the sun was rising, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he grew faint and wished to die, saying, “It is better for me to die than to live.”

    Jonah 4:8

    • וַיְמַ֨ןvaymanHc/Vpw3mstagged: and he appointed

The letters

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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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

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.

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Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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