מָןmân
מָן: manna (Numbers 11:9; Exodus 16:36; Exodus 16:15; Nehemiah 9:20; Exodus 16:31)
Pronunciation: mawn · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4478
Meanings
מָן: (with reference to the manna), most probably 'What is it?' (Exodus 16:15)
Same root
- מָהmâh · H4100properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and even relatively, that which); often used with prefixes in various adverbial or conjunctive senses
- μάνναmánna · G3131manna (i.e. man), an edible gum
Where it appears
Appears 14 times in the Bible.
- Exodus 16:15 The Israelites were puzzled when they saw it. “What is it?” they asked each other. They had no idea what it was. And Moses told them, “It is the food the Lord has given you to eat.
- Exodus 16:31 The Israelites called the food manna. It was white like coriander seed, and it tasted like honey wafers.
- Exodus 16:33 Moses said to Aaron, “Get a jar and fill it with two quarts of manna. Then put it in a sacred place before the Lord to preserve it for all future generations.”
- Exodus 16:35 So the people of Israel ate manna for forty years until they arrived at the land where they would settle. They ate manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.
- Numbers 11:6 But now our appetites are gone. All we ever see is this manna!”
- Numbers 11:7 The manna looked like small coriander seeds, and it was pale yellow like gum resin.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).