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Hebrew verb · H4513

מָנַע

manamaw-nah'

to withhold

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

Concordance spelling: mânaʻ

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4513is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 14 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 27
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H4513

to debar (negatively or positively) from benefit or injury

The King James renders it: deny, keep (back), refrain, restrain, withhold.

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

mana is rendered "to withhold". It stands 29 times in the Hebrew text, across fourteen books.

  • Six of the uses stand in Jeremiah, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 30:2Jacob became angry with Rachel and said, “Am I in the place of God, who has withheld children from you?”
  • The Greek text spells it twenty-seven different ways.

The first use

Jacob became angry with Rachel and said, “Am I in the place of God, who has withheld children from you?”

Genesis 30:2מָנַ֥ע

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

  • I withheld3
  • restrain3
  • you withhold3
  • withholds2
  • you have withheld2
  • and he withholds it1
  • and I withheld1
  • and they have been withheld1
  • he has restrained me1
  • he has restrained you1
  • he has withheld1
  • he has withheld you1

and 9 more, 29 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.

All 29, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

27 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

  • מִנְעִ֤י2
  • מָנַ֨עְתִּי2
  • אֶ֭מְנַע1
  • אֶמְנַ֥ע1
  • וָֽאֶמְנַע֙1
  • וְיִמָּנַ֣ע1
  • וַיִּמָּנְע֣וּ1
  • וְ֝יִמְנָעֶ֗נָּה1
  • יִמְנַע־1
  • יִמְנָעֵ֖נִי1
  • מְנַ֥ע1
  • מָנַ֥ע1

and 15 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • verb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine singular3HVqj2ms
  • verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular3HVqp1cs
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular2HVqi1cs
  • verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular2HVqp2ms
  • verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular2HVqp3ms/Sp2ms
  • verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular2HVqrmsa
  • verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person feminine singular2HVqv2fs
  • HC/VNu3ms1HC/VNu3ms
  • Hc/VNw3mp1Hc/VNw3mp
  • HC/Vqu3ms/Sp3fs1HC/Vqu3ms/Sp3fs
  • Hc/Vqw1cs1Hc/Vqw1cs
  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine singular1HVNj2ms

Genesis

one use
  • Jacob became angry with Rachel and said, “Am I in the place of God, who has withheld children from you?”

    Genesis 30:2

    • מָנַ֥עmana'verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has withheld

Numbers

two uses
  • They came to Balaam and said, “This is what Balak son of Zippor says: ‘Please let nothing hinder you from coming to me,

    Numbers 22:16

    • תִמָּנַ֖עtimana'verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: let yourself be restrained
  • Therefore, flee at once to your home! I said I would richly reward you, but instead the LORD has denied your reward.”

    Numbers 24:11

    • מְנָעֲךָ֥menaakhaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: he has withheld you

1 Samuel

two uses
  • Now, my lord, as surely as the LORD lives and you yourself live, the LORD has held you back from coming to bloodshed and avenging yourself with your own hand. May your enemies and those who seek harm for my lord be like Nabal.

    1 Samuel 25:26

    • מְנָעֲךָ֤menaakhaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: he has restrained you
  • Otherwise, as surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, who has restrained me from harming you, if you had not come quickly to meet me, then surely no male belonging to Nabal would have been left alive by morning light.”

    1 Samuel 25:34

    • מְנָעַ֔נִיmenaaniverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: he has restrained me

2 Samuel

one use
  • Where could I ever take my shame? And you would be like one of the fools in Israel! Please speak to the king, for he will not withhold me from you.”

    2 Samuel 13:13

    • יִמְנָעֵ֖נִיyimnaeniverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: he will withhold me

1 Kings

one use
  • Then the king of Israel summoned all the elders of the land and said, “Please take note and see that this man is looking for trouble, for when he demanded my wives, my children, my silver, and my gold, I did not deny him.”

    1 Kings 20:7

    • מָנַ֖עְתִּיmana'tiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I withheld

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.

    Nehemiah 9:20

    • מָנַ֣עְתָּmana'taverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you withheld

Job

four uses
  • though he cannot bear to let it go and keeps it in his mouth,

    Job 20:13

    • וְ֝יִמְנָעֶ֗נָּהveyimnaenahHC/Vqu3ms/Sp3fstagged: and he withholds it
  • You gave no water to the weary and withheld food from the famished,

    Job 22:7

    • תִּֽמְנַֽע־timna'-verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have withheld
  • If I have denied the desires of the poor or allowed the widow’s eyes to fail,

    Job 31:16

    • אֶ֭מְנַעʾemna'verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I withheld
  • Light is withheld from the wicked, and their upraised arm is broken.

    Job 38:15

    • וְיִמָּנַ֣עveyimana'HC/VNu3mstagged: so it may be withheld

Psalms

two uses
  • You have granted his heart’s desire and have not withheld the request of his lips. Selah

    Psalms 21:2

    • מָנַ֥עְתָּmana'taverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have withheld
  • For the LORD God is a sun and a shield; the LORD gives grace and glory; He withholds no good thing from those who walk with integrity.

    Psalms 84:11

    • יִמְנַע־yimna'-verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he withholds

Proverbs

five uses
  • my son, do not walk the road with them or set foot upon their path.

    Proverbs 1:15

    • מְנַ֥עmena'verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: restrain
  • Do not withhold good from the deserving when it is within your power to act.

    Proverbs 3:27

    • תִּמְנַע־timna'-verb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you withhold
  • The people will curse the hoarder of grain, but blessing will crown the one who sells it.

    Proverbs 11:26

    • מֹ֣נֵֽעַmonea'verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: withholds
  • Do not withhold discipline from a child; although you strike him with a rod, he will not die.

    Proverbs 23:13

    • תִּמְנַ֣עtimna'verb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you withhold
  • Two things I ask of You—do not refuse me before I die:

    Proverbs 30:7

    • תִּמְנַ֥עtimna'verb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you withhold

Ecclesiastes

one use
  • Anything my eyes desired, I did not deny myself. I refused my heart no pleasure. For my heart took delight in all my work, and this was the reward for all my labor.

    Ecclesiastes 2:10

    • מָנַ֨עְתִּיmana'tiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I restrained

Jeremiah

six uses
  • You should have kept your feet from going bare and your throat from being thirsty. But you said, ‘It is hopeless! For I love foreign gods, and I must go after them.’

    Jeremiah 2:25

    • מִנְעִ֤יminiverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: restrain
  • Therefore the showers have been withheld, and no spring rains have fallen. Yet you have the brazen look of a prostitute; you refuse to be ashamed.

    Jeremiah 3:3

    • וַיִּמָּנְע֣וּvaiyimaneuHc/VNw3mptagged: and they have been withheld
  • Your iniquities have diverted these from you; your sins have deprived you of My bounty.

    Jeremiah 5:25

    • מָנְע֥וּmaneuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have withheld
  • This is what the LORD says: “Keep your voice from weeping and your eyes from tears, for the reward for your work will come, declares the LORD. Then your children will return from the land of the enemy.

    Jeremiah 31:16

    • מִנְעִ֤יminiverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: restrain
  • “I have heard you,” replied Jeremiah the prophet. “I will surely pray to the LORD your God as you request, and I will tell you everything that the LORD answers; I will not withhold a word from you.”

    Jeremiah 42:4

    • אֶמְנַ֥עʾemna'verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will withhold
  • Cursed is the one who is remiss in doing the work of the LORD, and cursed is he who withholds his sword from bloodshed.

    Jeremiah 48:10

    • מֹנֵ֥עַmonea'verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: withholds

Ezekiel

one use
  • This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘On the day it was brought down to Sheol, I caused mourning. I covered the deep because of it; I held back its rivers; its abundant waters were restrained. I made Lebanon mourn for it, and all the trees of the field fainted because of it.

    Ezekiel 31:15

    • וָֽאֶמְנַע֙vaemna'Hc/Vqw1cstagged: and I withheld

Joel

one use
  • Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests; wail, O ministers of the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God, because the grain and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God.

    Joel 1:13

    • נִמְנַ֛עnimna'verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it has been withheld

Amos

one use
  • “I also withheld the rain from you when the harvest was three months away. I sent rain on one city but withheld it from another. One field received rain; another without rain withered.

    Amos 4:7

    • מָנַ֨עְתִּיmana'tiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I withheld

The letters

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.

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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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