מָןmân
who?
Pronunciation: mawn · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4479
Meanings
1. who? (Ezra 5:3; Ezra 5:9; Daniel 3:15)
2. whomsoever (Daniel 3:6; Daniel 3:11; Daniel 4:14)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 10 times in the Bible.
- Ezra 5:3 But Tattenai, governor of the province west of the Euphrates River, and Shethar-bozenai and their colleagues soon arrived in Jerusalem and asked, “Who gave you permission to rebuild this Temple and restore this structure?”
- Ezra 5:4 They also asked for the names of all the men working on the Temple.
- Ezra 5:9 “We asked the leaders, ‘Who gave you permission to rebuild this Temple and restore this structure?’
- Daniel 3:6 Anyone who refuses to obey will immediately be thrown into a blazing furnace.”
- Daniel 3:11 That decree also states that those who refuse to obey must be thrown into a blazing furnace.
- Daniel 3:15 I will give you one more chance to bow down and worship the statue I have made when you hear the sound of the musical instruments. But if you refuse, you will be thrown immediately into the blazing furnace. And then what god will be able to rescue you from my power?”
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).