μάννα
manna
‘manna’ is one of 4 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Hebrew transliteration
- A Hebrew word carried over into Greek letters (e.g. ἀμήν, ἀλληλουϊά).
Every verse where G3131 appears in the Book of Hebrews — 1 distinct verse. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Hebrews
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“manna” is the headline sense of the Greek noun μαννα (mánna). The Greek New Testament uses it only 4 verses. It clusters heavily in John, which alone accounts for 50% of its uses. First canonically at John 6:31, it enters the text early. Catalogued under 4 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3131 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 4
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 4 distinct verses.
- 3 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 3 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,877
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,877 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 4 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- John 2 verses 50%
- Hebrews 1 verse 25%
- Revelation 1 verse 25%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 4 distinct verses.
- Johannine 3 verses · 75%
- Gospels 2 verses · 50%
- Hebrews 1 verse · 25%
- Revelation 1 verse · 25%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Manna 5×
- American Standard Version: Manna 4×
- Berean Standard Bible: Manna 4×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Manna 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3131 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3131 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3131 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3131 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 4 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- manna = "what is it"
- the food that nourished the Israelites for forty years in the wilderness
- of the manna was kept in the ark of the covenant
- symbolically, that which is kept in the heavenly temple for the food of angels and the blessed
Word origin
Derived from מן (mân) (H4478) — manna.
Of hebrew origin [ H4478 ]; manna (that is man ) an edible gum : - manna.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word μαννα appears 9 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 8 verses in 5 books.
- 9
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 8
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 5 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 5 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Numbers 11:6 μαννα
- Deuteronomy 8:3 μαννα
- Joshua 5:12 μαννα
- Ezra 19:20 μαννα
- Psalms 77:24 μαννα
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3131) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Numbers 11:6 μαννα but now our soul is dried away; there is nothing at all save this manna to look on.
- Numbers 11:7 μαννα The manna was like coriander seed, and the appearance of it as the appearance of bdellium.
- Numbers 11:9 μαννα When the dew fell on the camp in the night, the manna fell on it.
- Deuteronomy 8:3 μαννα He humbled you, and allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna, which you didn't know, neither did your fathers know; that he might make you know that man does not live by bread only, but by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of Yahweh does man live.
- Deuteronomy 8:16 μαννα who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers didn't know; that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end:
- Joshua 5:12 μαννα The manna ceased on the next day, after they had eaten of the produce of the land; neither had the children of Israel manna any more; but they ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.
- Ezra 19:20 μαννα
- Psalms 77:24 μαννα
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3131) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
