To reckon/appoint
מְנָהStrong’s H4483menah (me-nah)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Menah is the Aramaic word usually translated “appoint”, “had appointed” and “appointed”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“Therefore Daniel went in unto Arioch, whom the king had ordained to destroy the wise men of Babylon: he went and said thus unto him; Destroy not the wise men of Babylon: bring me in before the king, and I will shew unto the king the interpretation.”
Meaning
- To number, reckon(P'al) to number · (Pael) to appoint
How it's translated
- appoint 1
- he had appointed 1
- and he appointed 1
- you have appointed 1
- he has numbered 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 4
- Ezra 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 2:49In contextThen Daniel requested of the king, and he set Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, over the affairs of the province of Babylon: but Daniel sat in the gate of the king.
- Daniel 3:12In contextThere are certain Jews whom thou hast set over the affairs of the province of Babylon, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego; these men, O king, have not regarded thee: they serve not thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.
- Daniel 5:26In contextThis is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.
- Ezra 7:25And thou, Ezra, after the wisdom of thy God, that is in thine hand, set magistrates and judges, which may judge all the people that are beyond the river, all such as know the laws of thy God; and teach ye them that know them not.
Aramaic dictionary
מְנָה menah · to reckon/appoint
1) to number, reckon 1a) (P'al) to number 1b) (Pael) to appoint
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “appointed” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
APPOINT'ED, participle passive
- Fixed; set; established; decreed; ordained; constituted; allotted.
- Furnished; equipped with things necessary; as, a ship or an army is well appointed
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.