Lexical Summary man: manna (a kind of bread) Original Word: מָןTransliteration: man Phonetic Spelling: (mawn) Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: manna (a kind of bread) Meaning: manna (a kind of bread) Strong's Concordance manna From mah; literally, a whatness (so to speak), i.e. Manna (so called from the question about it) -- manna. see HEBREW mah Brown-Driver-Briggs H4478. man I. מָן noun masculineNumbers 11:9 manna (= Arabic , known to Bedouin in Sinai Peninsula; a juice exuding in heavy drops from twigs (some say also the leaves) of ˆarfa (ˆªrfa) 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 16:15 12t., suffix מַנֵךָ Nehemiah 9:20: — manna: מַההֿוּא יָָֽדְעוּ לֹא כִּי הוּא מָן וַיּאֹמְרוּ Exodus 16:15; 16:31; 16:33; 16:35; 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 accusativeאֶתהַֿמָּן הֶאֱכִילְךָ Deuteronomy 8:3, compare 8:16 עֲלֵיהֶם וַיַּמְטֵר לֶאֱכֹל מָן Psalm 78:24; מִמִּיהֶם לֹאמָֿנַעְתָּ וּמַנְךָ Nehemiah 9:20. II. מָן in Exodus 16:15 (with reference to the manna) יָָֽדְעוּ לֹא כִּי הוּא מָן אֶלאָֿחִיו אִישׁ וַיּאֹמְרוּ מַההֿוּא, most probably 'What is it?' the question being intended as a popular etymology of מָן 'manna,' based upon the late Aramaic What ? (man is 'Who?' in Arabic, Aramaic מַן ), Mandaean (מאן), Ethiopic (manu), 'What?' in these dialects being מָה מָא (Ethiopic ment); מָן in the sense of 'What?' must correspond to the later Syriac contracted from מָדֵין ᵑ7 Nö§ 68 WSG 125). |
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