Portion
מָנָהStrong’s H4490manah (ma-nah)
Appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Manah is the Hebrew word usually translated “portions”, “portion” and “portions her”. It appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament.
“And thou shalt take the breast of the ram of Aaron’s consecration, and wave it for a wave offering before the LORD: and it shall be thy part.”
Meaning
- Part, portion
How it's translated
- portions 6
- to a portion 3
- a portion 1
- the portion 1
- portions her 1
- portion of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Samuel 3
- Esther 3
- Leviticus 2
- Nehemiah 2
- Exodus 1
- 2 Chronicles 1
7 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 7:33He among the sons of Aaron, that offereth the blood of the peace offerings, and the fat, shall have the right shoulder for his part.
- Leviticus 8:29And Moses took the breast, and waved it for a wave offering before the LORD: for of the ram of consecration it was Moses’ part; as the LORD commanded Moses.
- 1 Samuel 1:4And when the time was that Elkanah offered, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions:
- 1 Samuel 1:5But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved Hannah: but the LORD had shut up her womb.
- 1 Samuel 9:23And Samuel said unto the cook, Bring the portion which I gave thee, of which I said unto thee, Set it by thee.
- 2 Chronicles 31:19Also of the sons of Aaron the priests, which were in the fields of the suburbs of their cities, in every several city, the men that were expressed by name, to give portions to all the males among the priests, and to all that were reckoned by genealogies among the Levites.
Hebrew dictionary
מָנָה manah · portion
part, portion
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “portion” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PORTION, noun
[Latin portio, from partio, to divide, from pars, part. See Part.]
- In general, a part of any thing separated from it.
- A part, though not actually divided, but considered by itself.“These are parts of his ways, but how little a portion is heard of him” Job 26:14
- A part assigned; an allotment; a dividend.“The priests had a portion assigned them of Pharaoh” Genesis 47:22
- The part of an estate given to a child or heir, or descending to him by law, and distributed to him in the settlement of the estate.
All definitions and other forms of “portion”
- A wife's fortune.
PORTION, verb transitive
To divide; to parcel; to allot a share or shares.
- To endow.
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.