Hebrew noun (feminine) · H4490
מָנָה
manahmaw-naw'
portion
13 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 H4490is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 7 of 39Old Testament books
- 11spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4490
properly, something weighed out, i.e. (generally) a division; specifically (of food) a ration; also a lot
The King James renders it: such things as belonged, part, portion.
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 "portion". It stands 13 times in the Hebrew text, across seven books.
- Three of the uses stand in 1 Samuel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 29:26Take the breast of the ram of Aaron’s ordination and wave it before the LORD as a wave offering, and it will be your portion.
- The Greek text spells it eleven different ways.
The first use
Take the breast of the ram of Aaron’s ordination and wave it before the LORD as a wave offering, and it will be your portion.
Exodus 29:26לְמָנָֽה׃
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in seven of the 39 Old Testament books.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- portions6
- to a portion3
- a portion1
- portion of1
- portions her1
- the portion1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| מָנָה | manah | to count | Uses28 |
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 13, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
11 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
- לְמָנָֽה׃2
- מָנוֹת֙2
- הַמָּנָ֔ה1
- לְמָנָ֔ה1
- מָנָ֥ה1
- מָנ֗וֹת1
- מָנ֔וֹת1
- מָנ֖וֹת1
- מָנֽוֹת׃1
- מָנוֹתֶ֙הָ֙1
- מְנָת־1
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine plural6HNcfpa
- preposition + noun · feminine singular3HR/Ncfsa
- noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular1HNcfpc/Sp3fs
- noun · feminine singular1HNcfsa
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcfsc
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular1HTd/Ncfsa
Exodus
one use
Take the breast of the ram of Aaron’s ordination and wave it before the LORD as a wave offering, and it will be your portion.
- לְמָנָֽה׃lemanahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: to a portion
Leviticus
two uses
The son of Aaron who presents the blood and fat of the peace offering shall have the right thigh as a portion.
- לְמָנָֽה׃lemanahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: to a portion
He also took the breast—Moses’ portion of the ram of ordination—and waved it before the LORD as a wave offering, as the LORD had commanded him.
- לְמָנָ֔הlemanahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: to a portion
1 Samuel
three uses
And whenever the day came for Elkanah to present his sacrifice, he would give portions to his wife Peninnah and to all her sons and daughters.
- מָנֽוֹת׃manotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: portions
But to Hannah he would give a double portion, for he loved her even though the LORD had closed her womb.
- מָנָ֥הmanahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a portion
And Samuel said to the cook, “Bring the portion I gave you and told you to set aside.”
- הַמָּנָ֔הhamanahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the portion
2 Chronicles
one use
As for the priests, the descendants of Aaron, who lived on the farmlands around each of their cities or in any other city, men were designated by name to distribute a portion to every male among the priests and to every Levite listed by the genealogies.
- מָנ֗וֹתmanotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: portions
Nehemiah
two uses
Then Nehemiah told them, “Go and eat what is rich, drink what is sweet, and send out portions to those who have nothing prepared, since today is holy to our Lord. Do not grieve, for the joy of the LORD is your strength.”
- מָנוֹת֙manotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: portions
Then all the people began to eat and drink, to send out portions, and to rejoice greatly, because they understood the words that had been made known to them.
- מָנ֔וֹתmanotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: portions
Esther
three uses
And the young woman pleased him and obtained his favor, so he quickly provided her with beauty treatments and the special diet. He assigned to her seven select maidservants from the palace and transferred her with them to the best place in the harem.
- מָנוֹתֶ֙הָ֙manotehanoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: portions her
This is why the rural Jews, who live in the villages, observe the fourteenth day of the month of Adar as a day of joy and feasting. It is a holiday for sending gifts to one another.
- מָנ֖וֹתmanotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: portions
as the days on which the Jews gained rest from their enemies and the month in which their sorrow turned to joy and their mourning into a holiday. He wrote that these were to be days of feasting and joy, of sending gifts to one another and to the poor.
- מָנוֹת֙manotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: portions
Psalms
one use
The LORD is my chosen portion and my cup; You have made my lot secure.
- מְנָת־menot-noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: portion of
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 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.