mana · portion

What it means

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

The share that falls to someone.

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 part set aside and due to someone, such as his ration of food.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• portion ×7
• portions ×7

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×1
• Leviticus×2
• 1 Samuel×3
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Nehemiah×2
• Esther×3
• Psalms×1
• Jeremiah×1

• Exodus 29:26

  You shall take the breast from the ram of ordination that is for Aaron and wave it as a wave offering before YHWH, and it shall be yours as a portion.

• Leviticus 7:33

  The one among the sons of Aaron who presents the blood of the peace offerings and the fat shall have the right thigh as a portion.

• Leviticus 8:29

  Moses took the breast and waved it as a wave offering before YHWH; from the ram of ordination it was Moses’ portion, as YHWH had commanded Moses.

• 1 Samuel 1:4

  And the day came when Elkanah sacrificed, and he would give portions to Peninnah his wife and to all her sons and her daughters;

• 1 Samuel 1:5

  but to Hannah he would give a double portion, for he loved Hannah, though YHWH had closed her womb.

• 1 Samuel 9:23

  And Samuel said to the cook, “Bring the portion that I gave you, of which I said to you, ‘Put it aside with you.’”

• 2 Chronicles 31:19

  And for the sons of Aaron, the priests, who were in the fields of the pasturelands of their cities, in every city there were men who had been designated by name to give portions to every male among the priests and to everyone enrolled in the genealogy among the Levites.

• Nehemiah 8:10

  And he said to them, “Go, eat rich fatty foods and drink sweet drinks, and send portions to the one for whom nothing is prepared, for holy is the day to our Lord; and do not be grieved, for the joy of YHWH is your stronghold.”

• Nehemiah 8:12

  And all the people went to eat and to drink and to send portions and to make great rejoicing, because they had understood the words that they had made known to them.

• Esther 2:9

  And the young woman seemed good in his eyes, and she won loyal love before him; and he hurried to give her her ointments and her portions, and the seven young women chosen to be given to her from the king’s house; and he moved her and her young women to the best part of the house of the women.

• Esther 9:19

  Therefore the Jews of the open country, who live in the unwalled cities, make the fourteenth day of the month of Adar a day of gladness and banqueting and a good day, and of sending portions each to his companion.

• Esther 9:22

  as the days in which the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month that was turned for them from sorrow into gladness and from mourning into a good day; that they should make them days of banqueting and gladness, and of sending portions each to his companion, and gifts to the needy.

• Psalms 16:5

  YHWH is the portion of my share and of my cup; you uphold my lot.

• Jeremiah 13:25

  This is your lot, the portion of your measures from me, declares YHWH, because you forgot me and trusted in falsehood.