mana · withhold

What it means

mana (מָנַע) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “withhold”.

Refuse, hold back.

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 not give something that was expected, or to keep something from coming.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• withheld ×9
• withhold ×6
• keep back ×2
• I held back ×1
• Keep ×1
• Whoever withholds ×1
• deny them ×1
• has held you back ×1
• has kept me back ×1
• has kept you ×1
• others ×5

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Numbers×2
• 1 Samuel×2
• 2 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×1
• Nehemiah×1
• Job×4
• Psalms×2
• Proverbs×5
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Jeremiah×6
• Ezekiel×1
• Joel×1
• Amos×1

• Genesis 30:2

  Jacob’s anger burned against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in the place of Elohim, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”

• Numbers 22:16

  And they came to Balaam and said to him, “Thus says Balak son of Zippor: ‘Please do not let anything hold you back from coming to me;

• Numbers 24:11

  So now flee to your place. I said, ‘I will greatly honor you’; but look, YHWH has held you back from honor.”

• 1 Samuel 25:26

  Now, my lord, as YHWH lives and as your soul lives, since YHWH has kept you from entering into guilt of blood and from saving yourself with your own hand, now let your enemies be like Nabal, and those who seek evil for my lord.

• 1 Samuel 25:34

  For indeed, as YHWH lives, the Elohim of Israel, who has kept me back from harming you, if you had not hurried and come to meet me, surely there would not have been left to Nabal, by the light of morning, so much as one who urinates against a wall.”

• 2 Samuel 13:13

  As for me, where could I carry my reproach? And you would be like one of the fools in Israel. Now then, please speak to the king, for he will not withhold me from you.”

• 1 Kings 20:7

  The king of Israel called all the elders of the land and said, “Know, please, and see that this man is seeking evil; for he sent to me for my wives and for my sons, and for my silver and for my gold, and I did not refuse him.”

• 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.

• Job 20:13

  though he has compassion on it and does not let it go, and holds it back in the middle of his palate,

• Job 22:7

  You did not give the weary water to drink, and from the hungry you withheld bread.

• Job 31:16

  If I withheld the poor from their desire, or wore out the eyes of the widow,

• Job 38:15

  And from the wicked their light is withheld, and the raised arm is broken.

• Psalms 21:2

  The desire of his heart you have given him, and the entreaty of his lips you have not withheld. Selah.

• Psalms 84:11

  For a sun and shield is YHWH Elohim; favor and glory YHWH will give; he will not withhold good from those who walk blamelessly.

• Proverbs 1:15

  my son, do not walk in the way with them; hold back your foot from their path;

• Proverbs 3:27

  Do not withhold good from its owners, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.

• Proverbs 11:26

  Whoever withholds grain, the people will curse him, but blessing is on the head of the one who sells it.

• Proverbs 23:13

  Do not withhold correction from a young man; if you strike him with the rod, he will not die.

• Proverbs 30:7

  Two things I have asked of you; do not deny them to me before I die:

• Ecclesiastes 2:10

  And whatever my eyes asked for I did not withhold from them; I did not keep back my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced from all my toil, and this was my portion from all my toil.

• Jeremiah 2:25

  Keep your foot from going barefoot and your throat from thirst. But you said, ‘It is hopeless! No, for I love strangers, and after them I will go.’

• Jeremiah 3:3

  And the showers have been withheld, and there has been no late rain; yet the forehead of a prostitute woman you have had; you refused to be ashamed.

• Jeremiah 5:25

  Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good from you.

• Jeremiah 31:16

  Thus says YHWH: “Keep back your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears; for there is a wage for your work, declares YHWH, and they will return from the land of the enemy.

• Jeremiah 42:4

  And Jeremiah the prophet said to them, “I have heard. Look, I will pray to YHWH your Elohim according to your words; and it will be that every word that YHWH answers you I will tell you; I will not withhold from you a word.”

• Jeremiah 48:10

  Cursed is the one who does the work of YHWH negligently, and cursed is the one who holds back his sword from blood.

• Ezekiel 31:15

  Thus says Adonai YHWH: ‘On the day it went down to Sheol I caused mourning; I covered the deep over it, and I held back its streams, and the many waters were restrained; and I put Lebanon in mourning for it, and all the trees of the field fainted for it.

• Joel 1:13

  Put on sackcloth and lament, priests; wail, ministers of the altar; come, spend the night in sackcloth, ministers of my Elohim; for grain offering and libation are withheld from the house of your Elohim.

• Amos 4:7

  And I also withheld from you the rain when there were still three months to the harvest; and I would send rain on one city, and on another city I would not send rain; one field would be rained on, and the field on which it did not rain would dry up.