Loom-beam
מָנוֹרStrong’s H4500manor (ma-nor)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Manor is the Hebrew word usually translated “like a beam of”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the staff of his spear was like a weaver’s beam; and his spear’s head weighed six hundred shekels of iron: and one bearing a shield went before him.”
Meaning
- Beambeam (carrying the heddles in a loom)
How it's translated
- like a beam of 4
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Chronicles 2
- 1 Samuel 1
- 2 Samuel 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Samuel 21:19And there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines, where Elhanan the son of Jaareoregim, a Bethlehemite, slew the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.
- 1 Chronicles 11:23And he slew an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits high; and in the Egyptian’s hand was a spear like a weaver’s beam; and he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand, and slew him with his own spear.
- 1 Chronicles 20:5And there was war again with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jair slew Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, whose spear staff was like a weaver’s beam.
Hebrew dictionary
מָנוֹר manor · loom-beam
1) beam 1a) beam (carrying the heddles in a loom)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.