Utensil
מָאןStrong’s H3984man
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Man is the Aramaic word usually translated “vessels of” and “vessels the”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein.”
Meaning
- Vessel, utensil
How it's translated
- vessels of 3
- vessels the 2
- and vessels the 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezra 4
- Daniel 3
2 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 5:3In contextThen they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, drank in them.
- Daniel 5:23In contextBut hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified:
- Ezra 5:14And the vessels also of gold and silver of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple that was in Jerusalem, and brought them into the temple of Babylon, those did Cyrus the king take out of the temple of Babylon, and they were delivered unto one, whose name was Sheshbazzar, whom he had made governor;
- Ezra 5:15And said unto him, Take these vessels, go, carry them into the temple that is in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be builded in his place.
- Ezra 6:5And also let the golden and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took forth out of the temple which is at Jerusalem, and brought unto Babylon, be restored, and brought again unto the temple which is at Jerusalem, every one to his place, and place them in the house of God.
- Ezra 7:19The vessels also that are given thee for the service of the house of thy God, those deliver thou before the God of Jerusalem.
Aramaic dictionary
מָאן man · utensil
vessel, utensil
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “utensil” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
UTEN'SIL, noun
[This seems to be formed on the participle of the Latin utor.]
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.