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Lexicon :: Strong's H4478 - mān

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מָן
Transliteration
mān
Pronunciation
mawn
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1208,1209

Strong’s Definitions

מָן mân, mawn; from H4100; literally a whatness (so to speak), i.e. manna (so called from the question about it):—manna.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 14x

The KJV translates Strong's H4478 in the following manner: manna (14x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 14x
The KJV translates Strong's H4478 in the following manner: manna (14x).

  1. manna

    1. the bread from Heaven that fed the Israelites for 40 years of wilderness wanderings

    2. means 'What is it?'

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מָן mân, mawn; from H4100; literally a whatness (so to speak), i.e. manna (so called from the question about it):—manna.
STRONGS H4478: Abbreviations
† I. מָן noun masculineNumbers 11:9 manna (= Arabic bdb057702, known to Bedouin in Sinai Peninsula; a juice exuding in heavy drops from twigs (some say also the leaves) of Ṭarfa (Ṭŭrfa) tree (tamarix gallica mannifera) in West Sinai Peninsula, end of May and in June, sweet, sticky, honey-like; compare DiExodus 16:36 RobBRi. 75, 115, 590 EbGS 233 ff., 574 ff. SocZMG xxxiv. 1881, 254); — מ׳ absolute Exodus 16:15 + 12 times, suffix מַנֵךָ Nehemiah 9:20: — manna: מַההֿוּא יָֽךְעוּ לֹא כִּי הוּא מָן וַיּאֹמְרוּ Exodus 16:15; Exodus 16:31; Exodus 16:33; Exodus 16:35; Exodus 16:35; Numbers 11:6, 7, 9 (described Exodus 16:14, 31; Numbers 11:7; accompare dew Exodus 16:14; Numbers 11:9); ceased after Israel reached Canaan Joshua 5:12 (twice in verse); as 2nd accusativeהֶאֱכִילְךָ אֶתהַֿמָּן Deuteronomy 8:3, compare Deuteronomy 8:16 מָן לֶאֱכֹל וַיַּמְטֵר עֲלֵיהֶם Psalm 78:24; מִפִּיהֶם לֹאמָֿנַעְת וּמַנְךָ Nehemiah 9:20.

† II. מָן in Exodus 16:15 (with reference to the manna) יָֽדְעוּ לֹא כִּי הוּא מָן אֶלאָֿחִיו אִיש וַיּאֹמְרו מַההֿוּא, most probably 'What is it?' the question being intended as a popular etymology of מָן 'manna,' based upon the late Aramaic bdb057703 What ? (man is 'Who?' in Arabic, Aramaic מַן bdb057704), Mandaean (מאן), Ethiopic (manu), 'What?' in these dialects being bdb057705 מָה bdb057706 מָא (Ethiopic ment); מָן in the sense of 'What?' must correspond to the later Syriac bdb057707 contracted from bdb057708 Targum מָדֵין Nö§ 68 WSG 125).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Exodus

16:14; 16:14; 16:15; 16:15; 16:15; 16:31; 16:31; 16:33; 16:35; 16:35; 16:36

Numbers

11:6; 11:7; 11:7; 11:9; 11:9; 11:9

Deuteronomy

8:3; 8:16

Joshua

5:12

Nehemiah

9:20; 9:20

Psalms

78:24

H4478

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Strong's Number H4478 matches the Hebrew מָן (mān),
which occurs 14 times in 12 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:15 - And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, What is this? for they knew not what it was; and Moses said to them,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:31

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:31 - And the children of Israel called the name of it Man; and it was as white coriander seed, and the taste of it as a wafer with honey.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:33

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:33 - And Moses said to Aaron, Take a golden pot, and cast into it one full homer of manna; and thou shalt lay it up before God, to be kept for your generations,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:35

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:35 - And the children of Israel ate manna forty years, until they came to the [fn]land they ate the manna, until they came to the region of Phœnicia.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:6 - But now our soul is dried up; our eyes turn to nothing but to the manna.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:7 - And the manna is as coriander seed, and the appearance of it the appearance of hoarfrost.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:9 - And when the dew came upon the camp by night, the manna came down upon it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:3 - And he afflicted thee and straitened thee with hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thy fathers knew not; that he might teach thee that [fn] man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God shall man live.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:16 - who fed thee with manna in the wilderness, which thou knewest not, and thy fathers knew not; that he might afflict thee, and thoroughly try thee, and do thee good in thy latter days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:12 - In this day the manna failed, after they had eaten of the corn of the land, and the children of Israel no longer had manna; and they took the fruits of the land of the Phœnicians in that year.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:20 - And thou gavest thy good Spirit to instruct them, and thou didst not withhold thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water in their thirst.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:24

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:24 - (LXX 77:24) and rained upon them manna to eat, and gave them the bread of heaven.
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