# H4478 מָן

מָן (mân), Strong’s H4478: literally a whatness (so to speak), i.e. manna (so called from the question about it) KJV: manna.. Occurs 14 times.

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*mân* — literally a whatness (so to speak), i.e. manna (so called from the question about it)

KJV: manna.

Derived from [מָה mâh](https://besorah.bible/word/H4100) (interrogative what?)

Occurs 14 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- 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

## Where it occurs
- [Exodus 16:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/16?v=15) — When the children of Israel saw it, they said to one another, “What is it?” For they didn’t know what it was. Moses…
- [Exodus 16:31](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/16?v=31) — The house of Israel called its name “Manna”, and it was like coriander seed, white; and its taste was like wafers with…
- [Exodus 16:33](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/16?v=33) — 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…
- [Exodus 16:35](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/16?v=35) — The children of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land. They ate the manna until they…
- [Numbers 11:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/11?v=6) — but now we have lost our appetite. There is nothing at all except this manna to look at.”
- [Numbers 11:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/11?v=7) — The manna was like coriander seed, and it looked like bdellium.
- [Numbers 11:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/11?v=9) — When the dew fell on the camp in the night, the manna fell on it.
- [Deuteronomy 8:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/8?v=3) — He humbled you, allowed you to be hungry, and fed you with manna, which you didn’t know, neither did your fathers know…
- [Deuteronomy 8:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/8?v=16) — who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers didn’t know, that he might humble you, and that he might…
- [Joshua 5:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/5?v=12) — The manna ceased on the next day, after they had eaten of the produce of the land. The children of Israel didn’t have…