מָנָה
mânâh · maw-naw'
properly, to weigh out; by implication, to allot or constitute officially; also to enumerate or enroll
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
properly, to weigh out; by implication, to allot or constitute officially; also to enumerate or enroll
- properly, to weigh out
- by implication, to allot or constitute officially
- also, to enumerate or enroll
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: appoint, count, number, prepare, set, tell.
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
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
water, chaos, the mighty deep › the seed, life continuing › to reveal, behold
Water, chaos, the mighty deep of the seed, life continuing that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of מָנָה 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
28 occurrences · 28 OT · 0 NT · 24 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- prepared3 · 11%
- number2 · 7%
- nor numbered2 · 7%
- to number2 · 7%
- also be numbered1 · 4%
- who can count1 · 4%
- that cannot be numbered1 · 4%
- and number1 · 4%
- and told1 · 4%
- some of them also were appointed1 · 4%
- to be numbered1 · 4%
- are appointed1 · 4%
- o prepare1 · 4%
- us to number1 · 4%
- he telleth1 · 4%
- be numbered1 · 4%
- and he was numbered1 · 4%
- therefore will i number1 · 4%
- of him that telleth1 · 4%
- appointed1 · 4%
- who hath appointed1 · 4%
- had set1 · 4%
- had prepared1 · 4%
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.