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 39Old Testament books
- 27spellings
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
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?”
- 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,
- 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.”
- 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.
- 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.”
- 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.”
- 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.”
- 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.
- 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,
- וְ֝יִמְנָעֶ֗נָּהveyimnaenahHC/Vqu3ms/Sp3fstagged: and he withholds it
You gave no water to the weary and withheld food from the famished,
- 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,
- אֶ֭מְנַעʾemna'verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I withheld
Light is withheld from the wicked, and their upraised arm is broken.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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:
- 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.
- 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.’
- 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.
- וַיִּמָּנְע֣וּvaiyimaneuHc/VNw3mptagged: and they have been withheld
Your iniquities have diverted these from you; your sins have deprived you of My bounty.
- 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.
- 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.”
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- מָנַ֨עְתִּיmana'tiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I withheld
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.
