Destiny
מְנִיStrong’s H4507meni (me-ni)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Meni is the Hebrew word usually translated “destiny”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“But ye are they that forsake the LORD, that forget my holy mountain, that prepare a table for that troop, and that furnish the drink offering unto that number.”
Meaning
- § Meni = "fate" or "fortune"
How it's translated
- for destiny 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
מְנִי meni · Destiny
§ Meni = "fate" or "fortune" god of fate who the Jews worshipped in Babylonia
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “destiny” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DESTINY, noun
- State or condition appointed or predetermined; ultimate fate; as, men are solicitous to know their future destiny which is however happily concealed from them.
- Invincible necessity; fate; a necessity or fixed order of things established by a divine decree, or by an indissoluble connection of causes and effects.
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.