מָן man
Hebrew word for “manna” · Strong’s H4478 · used 14 times in 12 verses
Meaning
1) manna; 1a) the bread from Heaven that fed the Israelites for 40 years of wilderness wanderings
Senses in the lexicon
- manna (13)
- What? (1)
How it is translated
Glosses given for man in context, with how often each is used:
- manna 13
- what? 1
Where it is used
Chapters where it is used most
Exodus 16 (4), Numbers 11 (3), Deuteronomy 8 (2), Joshua 5 (1), Nehemiah 9 (1), Psalms 78 (1)
Forms
- מן 6
- המן 6
- והמן 1
- ומנך 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with man more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- גַּד gad “coriander” 2
- אָכַל akhal “to eat” 5
- עָנָה anah “to afflict” 2
- כְּנַעַן kenaan “Canaan” 2
- יָדַע yada “to know” 3
- זֶרַע zera “seed” 2
- מַעַן maan “because” 2
- לֶחֶם lechem “food” 2
- פֶּה peh “lip” 2
- שָׁנָה shaneh “year” 2
- מֹשֶׁה mosheh “Moses” 2
- עַיִן ayin “eye” 2
Key verses
The verses using man that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Exodus 16:15 — And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which…
- Exodus 16:31 — And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.
- Exodus 16:33 — And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pot, and put an omer full of manna therein, and lay it up before the LORD, to be kept for your generations.
- Exodus 16:35 — And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of…
- Numbers 11:6 — But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.
- Numbers 11:7 — And the manna was as coriander seed, and the colour thereof as the colour of bdellium.
- Numbers 11:9 — And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell upon it.
- Deuteronomy 8:3 — And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know…
- Deuteronomy 8:16 — Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter…
- Joshua 5:12 — And the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the old corn of the land; neither had the children of Israel manna any more; but they did eat of the…
- Nehemiah 9:20 — Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst.
- Psalms 78:24 — And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven.
See all 12 verses in the Word Atlas
Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.