מְנָת
mᵉnâth · men-awth'
an allotment (by courtesy, law or providence)
Lexicon
Derivation: from H4487 (מָנָה);
an allotment (by courtesy, law or providence)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: portion.
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
- תTav400
Picture: a crossed mark
- Concrete
- mark · sign · cross · signature
- Extended
- a covenant · to seal · to sign · the end · monument
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
water, chaos, the mighty deep › the seed, life continuing › the mark, the covenant sign
Water, chaos, the mighty deep of the seed, life continuing of the mark, the covenant sign.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of מְנָת 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
8 occurrences · 8 OT · 0 NT · 8 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- the portions2 · 29%
- portion1 · 14%
- the portion1 · 14%
- that the portions1 · 14%
- this shall be the portion1 · 14%
- they shall be a portion1 · 14%
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.