מָאֵן
mâʼên · maw-ane'
to refuse
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to refuse
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: refuse, [idiom] utterly.
Letters
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- אAlef1
Picture: ox head
- Concrete
- ox · bull · cattle
- Extended
- strength · leader · first · the one in front
- נNun50
Picture: a sprouting seed, or a fish in water
- Concrete
- seed · sprout · fish · offspring
- Extended
- life · continuation · heir · to perpetuate
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
water, chaos, the mighty deep › strength, the leader › the seed, life continuing
Water, chaos, the mighty deep of strength, the leader of the seed, life continuing.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of מָאֵן above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
41 occurrences · 41 OT · 0 NT · 32 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- refused8 · 21%
- refuseth3 · 8%
- him; but he refused2 · 5%
- but he refused2 · 5%
- refuse2 · 5%
- and refused2 · 5%
- they refuse2 · 5%
- me: and if thou refuse1 · 3%
- he refuseth1 · 3%
- wilt thou refuse1 · 3%
- how long refuse1 · 3%
- utterly1 · 3%
- howbeit he refused1 · 3%
- which he refused1 · 3%
- it; but he refused1 · 3%
- and ye refused1 · 3%
- them; because they refuse1 · 3%
- but if ye refuse1 · 3%
- thou refusedst1 · 3%
- them, but they have refused1 · 3%
- they have refused1 · 3%
- which refused1 · 3%
- which refuseth1 · 3%
- and it shall be, if they refuse1 · 3%
- they refused1 · 3%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.