מָן
mân · mawn
who or what (properly, interrogatively, hence, also indefinitely and relatively)
Lexicon
Derivation: (Aramaic) from H4101 (מָה);
who or what (properly, interrogatively, hence, also indefinitely and relatively)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: what, who(-msoever, [phrase] -so).
Letters
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- 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 › the seed, life continuing
Water, chaos, the mighty deep of the seed, life continuing.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of מָן 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
10 occurrences · 10 OT · 0 NT · 3 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- it to whomsoever3 · 30%
- who2 · 20%
- and whoso2 · 20%
- what1 · 10%
- and who1 · 10%
- it whomsoever1 · 10%
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.