{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H4478",
  "lemma": "מָן",
  "transliteration": "mân",
  "definition": "literally a whatness (so to speak), i.e. manna (so called from the question about it)",
  "kjv": "manna.",
  "occurrences": 14,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "builtFrom": [
    {
      "id": "H4100",
      "lemma": "מָה",
      "transliteration": "mâh",
      "meaning": "interrogative what?",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/word/H4100"
    }
  ],
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "מָן in Ex 16:15 (with reference to the manna), most prob. ‘What is it?’ the question being intended as a popular etym. of מָן ‘manna’",
    "מָן n.m",
    "מָן n.m. manna"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 16:15",
      "text": "When the children of Israel saw it, they said to one another, “What is it?” For they didn’t know what it was. Moses…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/16?v=15"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 16:31",
      "text": "The house of Israel called its name “Manna”, and it was like coriander seed, white; and its taste was like wafers with…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/16?v=31"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 16:33",
      "text": "Moses said to Aaron, “Take a pot, and put an omer-full of manna in it, and lay it up before the LORD, to be kept…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/16?v=33"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 16:35",
      "text": "The children of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land. They ate the manna until they…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/16?v=35"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Numbers 11:6",
      "text": "but now we have lost our appetite. There is nothing at all except this manna to look at.”",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/11?v=6"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Numbers 11:7",
      "text": "The manna was like coriander seed, and it looked like bdellium.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/11?v=7"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Numbers 11:9",
      "text": "When the dew fell on the camp in the night, the manna fell on it.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/11?v=9"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 8:3",
      "text": "He humbled you, allowed you to be hungry, and fed you with manna, which you didn’t know, neither did your fathers know…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/8?v=3"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 8:16",
      "text": "who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers didn’t know, that he might humble you, and that he might…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/8?v=16"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Joshua 5:12",
      "text": "The manna ceased on the next day, after they had eaten of the produce of the land. The children of Israel didn’t have…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/5?v=12"
    }
  ],
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