מָנוֹחַ
resting place
‘resting place’ is one of 4 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Both
- Attested as both masculine and feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
1 distinct verse where H4494 appears in the Construct state, across 1 book. 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.
1 Chronicles 1 verse
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.
“resting place” is the headline sense of the Hebrew noun מנוח (mânôwach). Its meaning spans more than one sense — see its full sense range. It turns up in 6 verses across 6 books, an uncommon footprint. Its earliest occurrence is Genesis 8:9. It clusters with נוח, הנחה and נוח under a shared root. See the sense tree, 6-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H4494 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 →
- 6
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 6 distinct verses.
- 6 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 6 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #3,040
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,040 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 6 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Genesis 1 verse 17%
- Deuteronomy 1 verse 17%
- Ruth 1 verse 17%
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 6 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 3 verses · 50%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 2 verses · 33%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 17%
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).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Rest 4×
- American Standard Version†: Rest 4×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Place to rest 2×, Resting place 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Resting place 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H4494 across 7† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H4494 across 6† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H4494 across 7† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H4494 across 6† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in the full BDB
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 3 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.
מנוח I resting-place, state, or condition of rest
- 1. resting-place לְכַף רֶגֶל Gn 8:9 (J), cf. Dt 28:65 La 1:3; Is 34:14 (cf. also מְנֻחָה Gn 49:15). e.g. Genesis 8:9
- 2. rest, repose of soul ψ 116:7 (pl. abstr. vel intens.); condition of rest and security attained by marriage Ru 3:1. e.g. Psalms 116:7
- 3. with force of inf. (cf. Aramaic inf. c. מ pref.) מִמְּנוֹחַ הָאָרוֹן 1 Ch 6:16 from the coming to rest of the ark. e.g. 1 Chronicles 6:16
מנוח II m. father of Samson Ju 13
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
II. n.m. resting-place, state, or condition of rest;—abs. מ׳ Gn 8:9 + 4 times; cstr. מְנוֹחַ 1 Ch 6:16; pl. sf. 2 fs. מְנוּחָ֑יְכִי ψ 116:7 (Ges§ 91 l);—
III. n.pr.m. father of Samson Ju 13:2, 8 + 15 times Ju 13, 16:31, 𝔊 Μανωε.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from נוח (nûwach) (H5117) — to rest.
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.
מָנוֹחַ I
- (b. h.) pr. n. m. Manoah,
- 1. the father of Samson. Ber. 61ᵃ. Num. R. s. 10. B. Bath. 91ᵃ; a. fr.
- 2. M., father of R. Huna. Taan. 9ᵃ
מָנוֹחַ II
- rest. Sabb. 152ᵇ יש להן מ׳ (Ms. M. מנוחה) find rest. Lam. R. to I, 3 אילו מצאה מ׳ וכ׳ if she (Judah) had found rest (among the nations), she would not have returned (to the Lord); a. e.
נוּחַ
- (b. h.) to rest, lie; to be at ease, rest satisfied.—Sabb. 7ᵇ זרק … והלכה ונָחָה וכ׳ if one threw an object higher than ten handbreadths, and in its course it came to rest in a little hole. Ib. וזרק ונָח על גביו and he threw an object and it came to rest on it. Gen. R. s. 25 כיון שעמד נֹחַ נָחוּ when Noah rose, they rested (submitted to man’s rulership; Yalk. Chr. 1072 נִינּוֹחוּ; Yalk. Gen. 42 נִחֲמָן he appeased them); ib. וכיון שעמד נֹחַ נחו and when Noah rose, they remained undisturbed in their graves; Yalk. Chr. l. c. נינוחו.—Meg. 25ᵇ, a. fr. יָנוּחוּ לו ברכות וכ׳ blessings rest upon his head. Sabb. 152ᵇ, a. e. תָּנוּחַ … שהנחת וכ׳ let thy mind be at rest, for thou hast set my mind at rest; a. fr.—Part. נָח, נוֹחַ, f. נוֹחָה; pl. נוֹחִים, נוֹחִין; נוֹחוֹת a) resting. Gen. R. s. 11 אתם נוחין you rest. Y. Erub. III, end, 21ᶜ, a. fr. נוֹחֵי נפש whose souls are at rest; a. fr.—b) pleased. Ab. III, 10 כל שרוח הבריות נ׳ הימנו וכ׳ in whom the mind of man finds pleasure, the mind of God finds pleasure. Shebi. X, 9; a. fr.—V. נוֹחַ.
- (fr. יָנַח)
- 1. to set at rest; to set down, place. Gen. R. l. c. (ref. to Gen. V, 29) או נח זה יְנִיחֵנוּ וכ׳ either let him be called Noaḥ, then it ought to read, ‘he shall set us at rest’, or Naḥman &c. Sabb. l. c. שהֵנַחְתָּ, v. supra; (Snh. 30ᵇ שהתנחת, v. תָּנַח; v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 20). Ḥull. 91ᵇ עלי יַנִּיחַ צדיק וכ׳ let this righteous man rest his head on me.—B. Kam. III, 1. B. Mets. VI, 6 הַנַּח לפני put it down before me (I will take charge of it). Sabb. 21ᵇ להַנִּיחָהּ על פתח וכ׳ to place it over the entrance &c.; a. fr. e.g. Genesis 5:29
- 2. to leave; to leave alone; to allow. B. Bath. IX, 1 מי שמת וה׳ בנים וכ׳ if a person died and left sons and daughters. Ib. 3 ראו מה שה׳ לנו וכ׳ see what our father left us. Snh. 30ᵃ מעות שה׳ לו אביו money which his father had left him (without telling him where it was deposited). Pesik. R. s. 26; Yalk. Ps. 884 אבינו ירמיה הרי אתה מַנִּיחֵנוּ שם J., our father, wilt thou leave us there (in Babylonia, without a prophet)?—Bets. 30ᵃ, a. fr. הַנַּח להם לישראל leave Israel alone (let them do as they please). Yoma I, 4 לא היו מְנִיחִים אותו וכ׳ they did not let him eat much. Ab. Zar. 10ᵇ יַנִּיחֶנָּה, v. נוֹמִי. Ib. 17ᵃ לא ה׳ זונה וכ׳ he did not forego a single prostitute &c. Ex. R. s. 30 לא ה׳ שלא היה מצערו he allowed no opportunity to pass without tormenting him; a. v. fr.
- 3. to relieve, remit. Ab. Zar. 13ᵃ יום שע"א מֵנַחַת בו וכ׳ a day on which the idol grants a remission of duties. Ib. כל מי … ויָנִיחַ … יָנִיחַ וכ׳ to him who will take a wreath and place it on his head (in honor of the deity), he will allow a remission &c.; a. fr.
- 4. to wish rest (to a deceased); to bless the memory of. Yalk. Ex. 411 מזכירין ומניחין there are those who are mentioned and blessed (opp. משחקין); Ex. R. s. 48 מדכרין ומניחין; (Tanḥ. Vayakh. 4 מזכירין ומשבחים;) [Midr. Sam. ch. I מדכרין ומניחין we mention and let alone, neither praising nor blaming by mentioning the ancestry].
- 5. to give pleasure. Gen. R. s. 16 לַהֲנִיחוֹ וכ׳ to give him pleasure, to protect him &c.
- to be put down, rested. Sabb. 4ᵃ, a. fr. קלוטה כמי שהוּנְחָה דמיא an object intercepted in the air (crossing an area, v. רָשׁוּת) is considered as having rested there, v. הַנָּחָה. B. Mets. III, 4, a. e. יהא מוּנָח וכ׳, v. אֵלִיָּהוּ. Yoma 72ᵇ עדיין מונח הוא וכ׳ still lies (undisposed of), whosoever desires to obtain it &c. Kidd. 66ᵃ הרי כרוכה ומוּנַחַת וכ׳ it (the Law) is wrapped up and lies in the corner, whosoever wishes to study &c.; a. fr.
- to be released; to be rested. Cant. R. to VII, 5 והגליות באות ונִינּוֹחוֹת וכ׳ and the exiles will come and rest under it; (Yalk. Is. 334 ונוֹחוֹת; Yalk. Zech. 575 וחָנוֹת). Y. Ber. V, end, 9ᵈ בטוח אני שנ׳ בנו וכ׳ I am confident that the son of … will recover from his illness. Gen. R. s. 13 נִינּוֹחוּ they are relieved (out of danger). Yalk. Chr. 1072, v. supra; a. e.
נוּחַ ²
- Targ. Gen. II, 2 ונַח. Targ. II Sam. XXI, 10 לִמְנָח; a. fr.—Part. נְיָיח, נְיָח. Targ. Y. Num. XXIII, 24. Targ. Job III, 25 נְיָיחִית (Ms. נָחִית); a. fr.—B. Mets. 86ᵃ נַח זעפא the storm subsided. Ib. כי הוה נָיְחָא נפשיה when his soul was at rest (when he was dead). Ib. תִּינַח נפשיה וכ׳ let me rather die, than be delivered &c. Ib. ההוא יומא דנח נפשיה on the day when he died. Keth. 104ᵃ, a. fr. נח נפשיה ד־—is dead. Yoma 20ᵇ נִינַח מר leave it alone, sir (be no longer my interpreter). Sabb. 3ᵃ bot. גופו מֵינַח נָיֵיח Ms. M. (v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note) his body had been resting (and he lifted it from the ground in moving). Ib. 5ᵇ מים מי עבידי דנָיְיחֵי is it possible that water (running down an incline) is at rest at any time?; a. v. fr.
- , אַנַּח
- 1. to give rest, to assuage. Targ. O. Deut. III, 20 דִּינִיחַ (ed. Vien. דִּי יְנִיחַ); Y. דְּיָנִיחַ. Targ. Ezek. XXIV, 13; a. fr.—Targ. II Chr. XV, 15; XX, 30 אַנְיָיח (ed. Lag. אניח; fr. נְיָיח, v. supra).—Ber. 28ᵇ לַאֲנוּחֵי דעתיה וכ׳ to quiet the mind of &c.—[Lev. R. s. 32, a. e. מדכרין ומניחין, v. preced.]
- 2. to rest, put down; to leave alone. Targ. Ex. XXXII, 10 אַנַּח (O. ed. Vien. הַנַּחַ; ed. Berl. אָ׳). Targ. Jud. VI, 18; a. fr.—Sabb. 6ᵃ כי מַנַּח ליה when he sets it down. Keth. 47ᵇ אֲנוּחֵי נַנְחִינְהוּ he must let them lie (store them); a. fr.—Part. pass. מַנַּח; f. מַנְּחָא; pl. מַנְּחֵי. Ḥull. 46ᵃ bot. דמ׳ ביה וכ׳, v. וַרְדָּא. Keth. 84ᵇ דמנחי היכא where were they placed (at the time of death)?; a. fr.
- to be relieved, recover. Targ. Y. Lev. XXVI, 35.
- 1. to be laid down, placed. B. Bath. 14ᵇ דמִתְנַח ליה וכ׳ (Rashi דמַנַּח, v. supra) it was placed by the side; a. e.
- 2. (v. נִיחָא) to be satisfactory. Kidd. 45ᵇ אִיתְנוּחֵי אִיתְנָחָא ליה it was agreeable to him. B. Bath. 129ᵃ אִיתְנָחַת לן חדא Ms. R. (v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 60; ed. אנחתת, v. נְחַת) one of thy arguments has been satisfactorily disposed of for us.—Contr. אִינַּח.—תִּינַּח, הָתִינַּח (a dialectical term) this might be right, acceptable, might do well. Sabb. 5ᵃ הת׳ ברשות היחיד וכ׳ this might be acceptable with regard to a covered private ground, but &c. Ib. 132ᵇ ת׳ גדול וכ׳ this may apply to an adult, but &c.; a. fr.
נוֹחַ
- preced.) rest; satisfaction. Tosef. Sot. XIV, 10 ואין נ׳ בעולם לישראל and there is no rest in the world for Israel; Sot. 47ᵇ אין נ׳ בעולם there is no satisfaction (to the Lord) in the world.
נוֹחַ II
- (preced. wds.)
- 1. pleasing, kind. Ab. III, 12 הוי קל לראש ונ׳ לתשחורת be quick (to serve) to thy superior, and kind to youth; Y. Taan. II, 65ᵇ bot. ונ׳ תשח׳ (corr. acc.).
- 2. easy. Gen. R. s. 17 מפני מה האיש נ׳ להתפתות וכ׳ why is man easily pacified, and woman not? Ab. V, 11 נ׳ לכעוס ונ׳ וכ׳ easily angered and easily reconciled, opp. קשה. Yalk. Deut. 845 נֹחַ לקנות שונא וכ׳ it is easy to acquire an enemy, but hard to acquire a friend; נח לעלות לבימה וכ׳ it is easy to be brought up to the platform of the court, but hard to come down (be acquitted); a. fr.—Pl. נוֹחִים, נוֹחוֹת, נֹח׳. Gen. R. s. 90 ונח׳; Yalk. ib. 148 ונוח׳, v. יָפַע.
- 3. נ׳ לו it is good (better) for. Erub. 13ᵇ נ׳ לו לאדם שלא נברא יותר וכ׳ it would have been better for man not to have been born at all than &c. Sabb. 56ᵇ נ׳ לו לאותו … ואל וכ׳ it would have been better for that pious man, had he been a slave in an idolatrous temple, only that it might not be written about him &c.; a. fr.
נוֹחַ III
- pr. n. m., v. נֹחַ
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Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms H4494 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| מָנ֖וֹחַ | Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute | Deuteronomy 28:65 | 2 |
| מִ/מְּנ֖וֹחַ | Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Construct | 1 Chronicles 6:31 | 1 |
| מָנ֑וֹחַ | Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute | Lamentations 1:3 | 1 |
| מָנ֜וֹחַ | Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute | Genesis 8:9 | 1 |
| מָנֽוֹחַ | Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 34:14 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H4494, 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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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 6 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 6 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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