man · manna

What it means

man (מָן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “manna”.

The food God gave Israel in the desert for forty years. The name comes from the question "What is it?" (man hu).

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The food God gave Israel in the wilderness.
2. "Man hu?", the question they asked on seeing it, from which it got its name.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• manna ×13
• What ×1

Where it appears

• Exodus×5
• Numbers×3
• Deuteronomy×2
• Joshua×2
• Nehemiah×1
• Psalms×1

• Exodus 16:15

  When the sons of Israel saw it, they said to one another, “What is it?” for they did not know what it was. Moses said to them, “It is the bread that YHWH has given you to eat.

• Exodus 16:31

  The house of Israel called its name manna. It was like coriander seed, white, and its taste was like wafers with honey.

• Exodus 16:33

  Moses said to Aaron, “Take a jar, and put in it a full omer of manna, and set it before YHWH, to be kept throughout your generations.”

• Exodus 16:35

  The sons of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land; they ate the manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.

• Numbers 11:6

  But now our soul is dried up; there is nothing at all before our eyes but the manna.”

• Numbers 11:7

  And the manna was like coriander seed, and its appearance like the appearance of bdellium.

• Numbers 11:9

  And when the dew fell on the camp at night, the manna would fall with it.

• Deuteronomy 8:3

  He afflicted you and let you hunger and fed you the manna, which you did not know and your fathers did not know, in order to make you know that not by bread alone does a human being live, but by everything that comes out of the mouth of YHWH does a human being live.

• Deuteronomy 8:16

  who fed you manna in the wilderness, which your fathers did not know, in order to afflict you and in order to test you, to do you good in the end;

• Joshua 5:12

  The manna ceased on the day after, when they ate of the produce of the land; and there was no longer manna for the sons of Israel, but they ate of the harvest of the land of Canaan that year.

• Nehemiah 9:20

  And your good spirit you gave to give them understanding, and your manna you did not withhold from their mouth, and water you gave them for their thirst.

• Psalms 78:24

  and rained down upon them manna to eat, and the grain of the heavens he gave them.

And 2 more times.