מָנוֹחַMânôwach
proper name, masculine: father of Samson (Judges 13:2; Judges 13:8; Judges 13:1-200; Judges 16:31)
Pronunciation: maw-no'-akh · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4495
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 18 times in the Bible.
- Judges 13:2 In those days a man named Manoah from the tribe of Dan lived in the town of Zorah. His wife was unable to become pregnant, and they had no children.
- Judges 13:8 Then Manoah prayed to the Lord, saying, “Lord, please let the man of God come back to us again and give us more instructions about this son who is to be born.”
- Judges 13:9 God answered Manoah’s prayer, and the angel of God appeared once again to his wife as she was sitting in the field. But her husband, Manoah, was not with her.
- Judges 13:11 Manoah ran back with his wife and asked, “Are you the man who spoke to my wife the other day?” “Yes,” he replied, “I am.”
- Judges 13:12 So Manoah asked him, “When your words come true, what kind of rules should govern the boy’s life and work?”
- Judges 13:13 The angel of the Lord replied, “Be sure your wife follows the instructions I gave her.
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).