mana · count

What it means

mana (מָנָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “count”.

Number how many there are; also appoint.

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. To work out how many there are, counting them one by one.
2. To appoint or assign something to someone: God appointed a fish, or the king assigned the food.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• count ×7
• appointed ×6
• counted ×4
• assigned ×3
• numbered ×3
• He counts ×1
• I will destine ×1
• appoint ×1
• number ×1
• one who counts them ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• Numbers×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×3
• 2 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×4
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×3
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×1
• Daniel×3
• Jonah×4

• Genesis 13:16

  I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone can count the dust of the earth, your offspring also can be counted.

• Numbers 23:10

  Who can count the dust of Jacob, or number the fourth part of Israel? Let my soul die the death of the upright, and let my end be like his!”

• 2 Samuel 24:1

  Again the anger of YHWH burned against Israel, and he incited David against them, saying, “Go, count Israel and Judah.”

• 1 Kings 3:8

  And your servant is in the midst of your people whom you have chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered or counted for multitude.

• 1 Kings 8:5

  And King Solomon and all the community of Israel who had gathered to him were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and cattle that could not be counted or numbered for multitude.

• 1 Kings 20:25

  And you, count for yourself troops like the troops that fell from you, horse for horse and chariot for chariot; and let us fight against them on the plateau, and surely we will be stronger than they.” He listened to their voice and did so.

• 2 Kings 12:10

  And it happened, whenever they saw that there was much silver in the chest, that the king’s scribe and the high priest went up and tied it up and counted the silver that was found in the house of YHWH.

• 1 Chronicles 9:29

  And some of them were appointed over the utensils, and over all the holy utensils, and over the fine flour, the wine, the oil, the frankincense, and the spices.

• 1 Chronicles 21:1

  Satan stood up against Israel and incited David to count Israel.

• 1 Chronicles 21:17

  David said to Elohim, “Was it not I who said to count the people? It is I who have sinned and done great evil; but these sheep, what have they done? YHWH my Elohim, please let your hand be against me and against the house of my father, but not against your people, for a plague.”

• 1 Chronicles 27:24

  Joab son of Zeruiah began to count, but did not finish; and because of this there came wrath on Israel, and the number was not entered in the account of the chronicles of King David.

• 2 Chronicles 5:6

  King Solomon and all the community of Israel, who had gathered to him, were before the ark, sacrificing sheep and cattle that could not be counted or numbered for multitude.

• Job 7:3

  so I have been given as my inheritance months of emptiness, and nights of suffering have been assigned to me.

• Psalms 61:7

  He will sit forever before Elohim; loyal love and truth appoint, that they may guard him.

• Psalms 90:12

  To number our days, so teach us, and we will bring a heart of wisdom.

• Psalms 147:4

  He counts the number of the stars; to all of them he calls by names.

• Ecclesiastes 1:15

  What is crooked cannot be made straight, and what is lacking cannot be counted.

• Isaiah 53:12

  Therefore I will give him a portion with the many, and with the strong he will divide the spoil, because he poured out to death his soul, and with the transgressors he was counted; and he carried the sin of many, and for the transgressors he intercedes.

• Isaiah 65:12

  I will destine you to the sword, and all of you will bow down to the slaughter; because I called, and you did not answer; I spoke, and you did not listen; and you did what was evil in my eyes, and you chose what I did not delight in.”

• Jeremiah 33:13

  In the cities of the hill country, in the cities of the Shephelah, and in the cities of the Negev, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the surroundings of Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, the flock will again pass under the hands of the one who counts them, says YHWH.

• Daniel 1:5

  And the king assigned them a daily portion each day from the delicacies of the king and from the wine he drank, and ordered that they be brought up three years, and at the end of them they would stand before the king.

• Daniel 1:10

  And the chief of the officials said to Daniel, “I fear my lord the king, who assigned your food and your drink; for why should he see your faces more downcast than the youths who are your age? Then you would make my head guilty to the king.”

• Daniel 1:11

  And Daniel said to the steward whom the chief of the officials had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,

• Jonah 1:17

  And YHWH appointed a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the inner parts of the fish three days and three nights.

• Jonah 4:6

  And YHWH Elohim appointed a castor-oil plant, and it grew up over Jonah to be shade over his head, to deliver him from his evil; and Jonah rejoiced over the plant with great joy.

• Jonah 4:7

  But Elohim appointed a worm when the dawn came up the next day, and it struck the plant, and it withered.

• Jonah 4:8

  And it happened, when the sun rose, that Elohim appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun struck on the head of Jonah, and he grew faint; and he asked that his soul die, and said, “Better is my death than my life.”

And 1 more times.