מְנֵא
mina
‘mina’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Every verse where H4484 appears — 2 distinct verses across 1 book. 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.
Daniel 2 verses
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.
The Hebrew noun מנא centers on the idea of “mina.” The Hebrew Bible uses it only 2 verses. Daniel dominates its distribution — 2 of 2 verses. Its earliest occurrence is Daniel 5:25. BDB distinguishes 2 senses for it. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H4484 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 →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,179
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,179 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Daniel 2 verses 100%
By section of the Old Testament
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 2 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 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: Mene 3×
- American Standard Version: Mene 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Mene 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Mene 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H4484 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H4484 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H4484 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H4484 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB 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.
- (Peal) mina, maneh
- a weight or measurement; usually 50 shekels but maybe 60 shekels
Word origin
מְנֵא n.[m.] maneh, mina, a weight
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from מנא (mᵉnâʼ) (H4483) — to number.
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 3 distinct written forms H4484 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| מְנֵ֕א | Noun, x, Absolute | Daniel 5:26 | 1 |
| מְנֵ֖א | Noun, x, Absolute | Daniel 5:25 | 1 |
| מְנֵ֥א | Noun, x, Absolute | Daniel 5:25 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H4484, 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.
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