Manna
מָןStrong’s H4478man
Appears in 12 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Man is the Hebrew word usually translated “manna”, “what” and “manna your”. It appears in 12 verses of the Old Testament.
“And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat.”
Meaning
- Mannathe bread from Heaven that fed the Israelites for 40 years of wilderness wanderings
- 'What is it?'
How it's translated
- the manna 6
- manna 5
- what 1
- and the manna 1
- and manna your 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 4
- Numbers 3
- Deuteronomy 2
- Joshua 1
- Nehemiah 1
- Psalms 1
6 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 16:31And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.
- Exodus 16:33And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pot, and put an omer full of manna therein, and lay it up before the LORD, to be kept for your generations.
- Exodus 16:35And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.
- Numbers 11:6But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.
- Numbers 11:7And the manna was as coriander seed, and the colour thereof as the colour of bdellium.
- Numbers 11:9And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell upon it.
Hebrew dictionary
מָן man · manna
1) manna 1a) the bread from Heaven that fed the Israelites for 40 years of wilderness wanderings
מָן man · What?
'What is it?' Another spelling of mah (מָה "what?" H4100)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.