מְנָה
to number
‘to number’ is one of 3 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Stem
- Piel
- An intensive or resultative active stem.
- Qal
- The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”).
Form
- Perfect
- A completed action or state — Hebrew marks aspect (completeness) more than strict tense (“he wrote”).
- Imperative
- A direct command (“write!”).
Person
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 2nd Person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
4 distinct verses where H4483 appears in the Piel stem, across 2 books. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew 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 Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Ezra 1 verse
Daniel 3 verses
- Daniel 2:24 מַנִּ֣י Piel pf 3ms Therefore Daniel went in to Arioch, whom the king had appointed to destroy the wise men of Babylon; he went and said thus to him: Don't destroy the wise men of Babylon; bring me in before the king, and I will show to the king the interpretation.
- Daniel 2:49 וּ/מַנִּ֗י conj + Piel pf 3ms Daniel requested of the king, and he appointed Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, over the affairs of the province of Babylon: but Daniel was in the gate of the king.
- Daniel 3:12 מַנִּ֤יתָ Piel pf 2ms There are certain Jews whom you have appointed over the affairs of the province of Babylon: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego; these men, O king, have not regarded you: they don't serve your gods, nor worship the golden image which you have set up.
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.
מנא — transliterated mᵉnâʼ — is a Hebrew verb carrying the sense “to number.” With only 5 verses it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in Daniel. It first appears in Ezra 7:25. As a verb its force shifts by stem, across 2 stems (Peal, Pael, and more). Dig into 5-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H4483 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 5
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 5 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #3,337
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,337 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 5 occurrences in the concordance →
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 5 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 5 verses · 100%
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: Had ordained 1×, Hath numbered 1×, He set 1×
- American Standard Version: Appoint 1×, Had appointed 1×, Hath numbered 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Appointed 1×, Are to appoint 1×, Had appointed 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Appoint 1×, Had appointed 1×, Has numbered 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H4483 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H4483 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H4483 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H4483 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in the full BDB
Hebrew verbs can shift meaning by stem (binyan): Qal is the basic action, Niphal is often passive or reflexive, Piel often intensifies or makes it factitive, and Hiphil is typically causative. The senses below are grouped under the stem BDB assigns to each. This entry also uses Peal (the basic Aramaic stem, parallel to Qal) and Pael (the intensive Aramaic stem, parallel to Piel).
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 2 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
Peal
- . God has numbered
Pael
- . appoint
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
מְנָה vb. number, reckon
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from מנה (mânâh) (H4487) — to count.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
מְנָא II
- (apocop. of מִן אָן = h. מִנַּיִן; v. מְנָן) whence?; whence is it proven? B. Kam. 117ᵃ ומ׳ תימרא דמקנסא וכ׳ but whence will you prove that we draw no analogy from fines? Ib. 44ᵃ bot. ומ׳ ידעינן וכ׳ and how do we know &c.? Snh. 61ᵇ מ׳ אמינא לה whence (on what evidence) do I say so?; a. fr.—מנא הני מילי, מְנָהַנֵּי מילי, v. מִילָּא II.—מְנָאן. Gen. R. s. 11, v. יְדַע.—מנא לן, מְנָלָן whence do we have this?, how do we know? Ber. 7ᵃ. Meg. 2ᵃ מ׳ מ׳ כדבעינן וכ׳ whence do we derive this?—Whence we derive this? (you ask, as if it were a law requiring an intimation in the Biblical text, while it is merely a measure of accommodation,) as we were going to explain further on. Ib. 20ᵃ; a. v. fr.
מַן I
- (a day’s) support. Succ. 39ᵇ בכדי מן for as much only as is needed for the day. Ib. דהאי מ׳ וכ׳ that man means support, v. preced.—Esp. מַנָּא the manna. Targ. Ex. XVI, 31. Targ. Y. ib. 27; a. e. (some ed. מָנָא).
מָן III
- thing, vessel, garment; coulter, v. מָאן.
מְנָא I
- who?, what?, v. מַן II.
מַנָּא
- manna, v. מַן I.
מְנֵא
- to count, v. מְנִי.
מָנָא III
- Mana (Mona), name of several Amoraim. Y. Sabb. I, 2ᶜ top. Y. Dem. IV, 24ᵃ top; Taan. 23ᵇ מָנִי.—Y. Ab. Zar. II, 42ᵃ top; a. fr.—V. Fr. M’bo, p. 114ᵇ, sq.
מָנָא IV
- a weight, v. מָנֶה.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms H4483 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that stem’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| וּ/מַנִּ֗י | Verb, Piel, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Daniel 2:49 | 1 |
| מְנָֽה | Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Daniel 5:26 | 1 |
| מֶ֣נִּי | Verb, Piel, Imperative, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular | Ezra 7:25 | 1 |
| מַנִּ֣י | Verb, Piel, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Daniel 2:24 | 1 |
| מַנִּ֤יתָ | Verb, Piel, Perfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular | Daniel 3:12 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H4483, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Derived from this word
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 10 — not the complete family. 2 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 4 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 5 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
