מָן
man
“manna”
Definition
literally a whatness (so to speak), i.e. manna (so called from the question about it)
from H4100 (מָה);
- manna 1a) the bread from Heaven that fed the Israelites for 40 years of wilderness wanderings
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logos (G3056)
word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Masculine)
H:N-M
H:N-M
Occurrences
מָן appears 12 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
He humbled you, and in your hunger He gave you manna to eat, which neither you nor your fathers had known, so that you might understand that man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.
When the Israelites saw it, they asked one another, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was.So Moses told them, “It is the bread that the LORD has given you to eat.
So Moses told Aaron, “Take a jar and fill it with an omer of manna. Then place it before the LORD to be preserved for the generations to come.”
And the day after they had eaten from the produce of the land, the manna ceased. There was no more manna for the Israelites, so that year they began to eat the crops of the land of Canaan.
But now our appetite is gone; there is nothing to see but this manna!”
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