noun · neuter
manna
Strong’sG3131
manna
stem mann-4 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books1 of 6 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
μάννα, τό,
(in FlJ, also ἡ), indecl. [in LXX: τὸ μάν, Ex 16:31 ff., elsewhere τ. μάννα, Nu 11:6 ff., al. (מָן, Aram. מַנָּא);]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3131 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidman'-nah
manna (i.e. man), an edible gum
Fromof Hebrew origin ();
King Jamesmanna.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
frankincense powder or granules, Refs 1st c.AD+; but μ. λιβανωτοῦ gum of λίβανος, Refs 4th c.BC+; μ. alone, of the powder, Refs 5th c.BC+; ={λιβάνου τὸ λεπτόν}, Refs
II μάννα, τό, = Hebrew mān, manna, LXX+1st c.AD+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject or object direct | manna | manna |
| of, belonging to genitive | manna1×μάννα | manna |
| to, for dative | manna | manna |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
manna“manna”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Revelation 2:17… ekklēsai. to nikarōnto dōami auto teu manna teu kruptorēnteu, kai dōami auto psēfan …… overcomes, I will give the hidden manna. I will also give him a …
manna3×
John 6:31tois patrois nu tem manna esthiala en ta erēma, kathōs atō …Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, as it is …
John 6:49… vu esthiala en ta erēma tem manna kai apothnēskala;Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died.
Hebrews 9:4… en ha stamnas chrusouas echarōntas tem manna kai tas rabdas Aarōn tas blastarantas …… ark were the gold jar of manna, Aaron’s staff that had budded, and …