H4478 - מָן (mân)

H4478 מָן (mân) mawn

Hebrew

Strong's Definition

literally a whatness (so to speak), i.e. manna (so called from the question about it)

Derivation: from H4100 (מָה);

KJV Usage: manna.

TWOT Reference: 1208,1209

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) manna

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

1b) means 'What is it?'

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G3131 G4169 G4632

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

מָן mân BDB Definition: 1) manna 1a) the bread from Heaven that fed the Israelites for 40 years of wilderness wanderings 1b) means What is it? Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from H4100 Same Word by TWOT Number: 1208, 1209 Total KJV Occurrences: 14

Bible Occurrences (12)

16:15 16:31 16:33 16:35

11:6 11:7 11:9

8:3 8:16

5:12

9:20

78:24

Exodus 16:15

When the Israelites... saw it, they asked one... another, What is it? For they did not know what it was. So Moses told them, It is the bread that the LORD has given you to eat.

Exodus 16:31

Now the house of Israel called [the bread]... manna. It was white like coriander seed and tasted like wafers made with honey.

Exodus 16:33

So Moses... told Aaron, Take a jar and fill it...... with an omer of manna. Then place it before the LORD to be preserved for the generations to come.

Exodus 16:35

The Israelites... ate manna forty years, until they came to a land where they could settle; they ate manna until they reached... the border of Canaan.

Numbers 11:6

But now our appetite is gone; there is nothing... to see but... this manna!

Numbers 11:7

Now the manna resembled coriander... seed, and its appearance was like that of gum resin.

Numbers 11:9

When the dew fell on the camp at night, the manna would fall with it.

Deuteronomy 8:3

He humbled you, and in your hunger He gave you manna to eat, which neither {you} nor your fathers had known, so that... you might understand that man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.