To reckon/appoint
מְנָהStrong’s H4487menah (me-nah)
Appears in 27 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Menah is the Hebrew word usually translated “count”, “appointed” and “were numbered”. It appears in 27 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the king appointed them a daily provision of the king’s meat, and of the wine which he drank: so nourishing them three years, that at the end thereof they might stand before the king.”
Meaning
- To number, reckon(P'al) to number · (Pael) to appoint
How it's translated
- to count 5
- and he appointed 4
- they were numbered 2
- it will numbered 1
- has he counted 1
- count 1
- it will be numbered 1
- you will muster 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Chronicles 4
- Jonah 4
- 1 Kings 3
- Psalms 3
- Daniel 3
- Isaiah 2
14 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 1:10In contextAnd the prince of the eunuchs said unto Daniel, I fear my lord the king, who hath appointed your meat and your drink: for why should he see your faces worse liking than the children which are of your sort? then shall ye make me endanger my head to the king.
- Daniel 1:11In contextThen said Daniel to Melzar, whom the prince of the eunuchs had set over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,
- Genesis 13:16And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.
- Numbers 23:10Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!
- 2 Samuel 24:1And again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah.
- 1 Kings 3:8And thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude.
Hebrew 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 “count” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
COUNT, verb transitive
- To number; to tell or name one by one, or by small numbers, for ascertaining the whole number of units in a collection; as, to count the years, days and hours of a mans life; to count the stars.“Who can count the dust of Jacob?” Numbers 23:10
- To reckon; to preserve a reckoning; to compute.
- To reckon; to place to an account; to ascribe or impute; to consider or esteem as belonging.“Abraham believed in God, and he counted it to him for righteousness” Genesis 15:6
- To esteem; to account; to reckon; to think, judge, or consider.“I count them my enemies” Psalms 139:22“Neither count I my life dear to myself” Acts 20:24“I count all things loss” Philippians 3:8
All definitions and other forms of “count”
- To impute; to charge.
COUNT, verb intransitive
To count on or upon, to reckon upon; to found an account or scheme on; to rely on. We cannot count on the friendship of nations. count not on the sincerity of sycophants.
COUNT, noun
- Reckoning; the act of numbering; as, this is the number according to my count
- Number.
- In law, a particular charge in an indictment, or narration in pleading, setting forth the cause of complaint.
COUNT, noun
[Latin, a companion or associate, a fellow traveler.]
A title of foreign nobility, equivalent to the English earl, and whose domain is a county. An earl; the alderman of a shire, as the Saxons called him. The titles of English nobility, according to their rank, are Duke, Marquis, Earl, Viscount, and Baron.
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.