מָנַע
mânaʻ · maw-nah'
to debar (negatively or positively) from benefit or injury
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to debar (negatively or positively) from benefit or injury
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: deny, keep (back), refrain, restrain, withhold.
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
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
water, chaos, the mighty deep › the seed, life continuing › to see and know
Water, chaos, the mighty deep of the seed, life continuing that works to see and know.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of מָנַע 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
29 occurrences · 29 OT · 0 NT · 27 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- withhold3 · 11%
- is withholden2 · 7%
- stead, who hath withheld1 · 4%
- let nothing, i pray thee, hinder1 · 4%
- hath kept thee back1 · 4%
- hath withholden1 · 4%
- which hath kept me back1 · 4%
- for he will not withhold1 · 4%
- and i denied1 · 4%
- them, and withheldest1 · 4%
- it not; but keep it still1 · 4%
- and thou hast withholden1 · 4%
- if i have withheld1 · 4%
- and hast not withholden1 · 4%
- thing will he withhold1 · 4%
- with them; refrain1 · 4%
- he that withholdeth1 · 4%
- of thee; deny1 · 4%
- not from them, i withheld1 · 4%
- have been withholden1 · 4%
- have withholden1 · 4%
- refrain1 · 4%
- it unto you; i will keep1 · 4%
- back1 · 4%
- be he that keepeth back1 · 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.