# H4513 מָנַע

מָנַע (mânaʻ), Strong’s H4513: to debar (negatively or positively) from benefit or injury KJV: deny, keep (back), refrain, restrain, withhold.. Occurs 28 times.

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*mânaʻ* — to debar (negatively or positively) from benefit or injury

KJV: deny, keep (back), refrain, restrain, withhold.

Occurs 28 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- מָנַע vb. withhold, hold back
- Qal withhold
- Niph. be withholden

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 30:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/30?v=2) — Jacob’s anger burned against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in God’s place, who has withheld from you the fruit of the…
- [Numbers 22:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/22?v=16) — They came to Balaam, and said to him, “Balak the son of Zippor says, ‘Please let nothing hinder you from coming to me,
- [Numbers 24:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/24?v=11) — Therefore, flee to your place, now! I thought to promote you to great honor; but, behold, the LORD has kept you back…
- [1 Samuel 25:26](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/25?v=26) — Now therefore, my lord, as the LORD lives and as your soul lives, since the LORD has withheld you from blood guiltiness…
- [1 Samuel 25:34](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/25?v=34) — For indeed, as the LORD the God of Israel lives, who has withheld me from harming you, unless you had hurried and come…
- [2 Samuel 13:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/13?v=13) — As for me, where would I carry my shame? And as for you, you will be as one of the fools in Israel. Now therefore…
- [1 Kings 20:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/20?v=7) — Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and said, “Please notice how this man seeks mischief; for he…
- [Jeremiah 2:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/2?v=25) — “Keep your feet from being bare, and your throat from thirst. But you said, ‘It is in vain. No, for I have loved…
- [Jeremiah 3:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/3?v=3) — Therefore the showers have been withheld and there has been no latter rain; yet you have had a prostitute’s forehead…
- [Jeremiah 5:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/5?v=25) — “Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good from you.