Strong's Lexicon: H4479 מָן | AI Bible Commentary

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:	H4479
Word:	מָן
Part of Speech:	interrogative
Etymology:	(Aramaic) from H4101
Language:	Aramaic
Occurrences:	10
Transliteration:	man
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:	mawn
Meaning:	1. who or what (properly, interrogatively, hence, also indefinitely and relatively)
KJV Renderings:	what, who(-msoever, + -so).

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מַן (so Gi, with most MSS ., supported by Syriac [untranscribed source text 6079], Arabic [untranscribed source text 6080]; see K^{§ 22, 1}), מָן ( Baer: see on Dan 3:6), pronoun interrogative who? (Old Aramaic, Nabataean, Palmyrene מן Lzb³¹² Cooke¹⁸⁸), ᵑ7 מן, Syriac [untranscribed source text 6081], Ethiopic [untranscribed source text 6082] Arabic [untranscribed source text 6083] W^{CG 123:} Biblical Hebrew מִי ); —

1. who? Ezra 5:3; Ezra 5:9 strengthened by הוּא, Dan 3:15 וּמַןהֿוּא אֱלָהּ דִּי who is the God who . . . ? (compare Syriac [untranscribed source text 6084] contracted from [untranscribed source text 6085], and מַנּוּ in the Syriacizing ᵑ7 to Proverbs: also Biblical Hebrew מִי הוּא, הוּא 4.b. β); so in the plural Ezra 5:4 מִןאִֿנוּן שְׁמָהָת what (literally who: compare מִי 1.a., and Gen 32:28; Exod 3:13 ᵑ7 ) are the names of . . .?

2. מַןדּֿי whosoever (literally who is there that . . .? see Biblical Hebrew מִי g) Dan 3:6; Dan 3:11 מִןדִּֿי לָא יִפֵּל, Dan 4:14 וּלְמִן דִּי יִצְבֵּא יִתְּנִנַּהּ to whomsoever he willeth, he giveth it, v.Dan 4:22 v.Dan 4:29; Dan 5:21 (so Nabataean מן די, Cooke^{241, 325 ff.}; ᵑ7 מַן דְּ; Syriac [untranscribed source text 6086]; compare Egyptian Aramaic S-C^{Pap. K 7, 12} ולמן זי צבית תנתן).

Other Resources

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

מן (mahn)

Exodus 16:15

KJV: And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the Lord hath given you to eat.It is…: or, What is this? or, It is a portion

EHCC: said one to another, It (is) manna;

Numbers 11:6

KJV: But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.

EHCC: (there is) nothing at all, beside this

Deuteronomy 8:3

KJV: And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.

EHCC: fed thee with maana,

Joshua 5:12

KJV: And the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the old corn of the land; neither had the children of Israel manna any more; but they did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.

EHCC: And the manna ceased on the morrow

Nehemiah 9:20

KJV: Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst.

EHCC: and withheldest not thy manna from their

Psalms 78:24

KJV: And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven.

EHCC: had rained down manna upon them

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