מָנֶהmâneh
maneh, mina, a weight, perhaps originally a specific part (Ezekiel 45:12; 1 Kings 10:17; Ezra 2:69; Nehemiah 7:71; Nehemiah 7:72)
Pronunciation: maw-neh' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4488
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 5 times in the Bible.
- 1 Kings 10:17 He also made 300 smaller shields of hammered gold, each weighing nearly four pounds. The king placed these shields in the Palace of the Forest of Lebanon.
- Ezra 2:69 and each leader gave as much as he could. The total of their gifts came to 61,000 gold coins, 6,250 pounds of silver, and 100 robes for the priests.
- Nehemiah 7:71 The other leaders gave to the treasury a total of 20,000 gold coins and some 2,750 pounds of silver for the work.
- Nehemiah 7:72 The rest of the people gave 20,000 gold coins, about 2,500 pounds of silver, and 67 robes for the priests.
- Ezekiel 45:12 The standard unit for weight will be the silver shekel. One shekel will consist of twenty gerahs, and sixty shekels will be equal to one mina.
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).