Manna
μάνναStrong’s G3131manna
Appears in 5 verses of the New Testament
In short
Manna is the Greek word usually translated “manna”. It appears in 5 verses of the New Testament.
“Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat.”
Meaning
Usually translated “manna”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- manna 5
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- John 3
- Hebrews 1
- Revelation 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- John 6:49Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
- John 6:58This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.
- Hebrews 9:4Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;
- Revelation 2:17He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.
Greek dictionary
μάννα manna · manna
μάννα, τό , (in FlJ, also ἡ), indecl. [in LXX: τὸ μάν, Exo.16:31 ff., elsewhere τ. μάννα, Num.11:6 ff., al. (מָן, Aram. מַנָּא) ;] manna: Jhn.6:31, 49, Heb.9:4; symb., Rev.2:17.† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “manna” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
MAN'NA, noun
- A substance miraculously furnished as food for the Israelites in their journey through the wilderness of Arabia. Exodus 16:15
- In the materia medica, the juice of a certain tree of the ash-kind, the Fraxinus ornus, or flowering ash a native of Sicily, Calabria, and other parts of the south of Europe.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.