מָנוֹחַ
Manoah
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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
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H4495 appears — 14 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.
Judges 14 verses
- Judges 13:2 מָנ֑וֹחַ n Proper There was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and didn't bear.
- Judges 13:8 מָנ֛וֹחַ n Proper Then Manoah entreated Yahweh, and said, Oh, Lord, please let the man of God whom you did send come again to us, and teach us what we shall do to the child who shall be born.
- Judges 13:9 מָנ֑וֹחַ וּ/מָנ֥וֹחַ n Proper conj + n Proper God listened to the voice of Manoah; and the angel of God came again to the woman as she sat in the field: but Manoah, her husband, wasn't with her.
- Judges 13:11 מָנ֖וֹחַ n Proper Manoah arose, and went after his wife, and came to the man, and said to him, Are you the man who spoke to the woman? He said, I am.
- Judges 13:12 מָנ֔וֹחַ n Proper Manoah said, Now let your words happen: what shall be the ordering of the child, and [how] shall we do to him?
- Judges 13:13 מָנ֑וֹחַ n Proper The angel of Yahweh said to Manoah, Of all that I said to the woman let her beware.
- Judges 13:15 מָנ֖וֹחַ n Proper Manoah said to the angel of Yahweh, I pray you, let us detain you, that we may make ready a kid for you.
- Judges 13:16 מָנ֗וֹחַ מָנ֔וֹחַ n Proper n Proper The angel of Yahweh said to Manoah, Though you detain me, I won't eat of your bread; and if you will make ready a burnt offering, you must offer it to Yahweh. For Manoah didn't know that he was the angel of Yahweh.
- Judges 13:17 מָנ֛וֹחַ n Proper Manoah said to the angel of Yahweh, What is your name, that when your words happen, we may honor you?
- Judges 13:19 מָנ֜וֹחַ וּ/מָנ֥וֹחַ n Proper conj + n Proper So Manoah took the kid with the meal-offering, and offered it on the rock to Yahweh: and [the angel] did wondrously, and Manoah and his wife looked on.
- Judges 13:20 וּ/מָנ֤וֹחַ conj + n Proper For it happened, when the flame went up toward the sky from off the altar, that the angel of Yahweh ascended in the flame of the altar: and Manoah and his wife looked on; and they fell on their faces to the ground.
- Judges 13:21 מָנ֣וֹחַ מָנ֔וֹחַ n Proper n Proper But the angel of Yahweh did no more appear to Manoah or to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was the angel of Yahweh.
- Judges 13:22 מָנ֛וֹחַ n Proper Manoah said to his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God.
- Judges 16:31 מָנ֣וֹחַ n Proper Then his brothers and all the house of his father came down, and took him, and brought him up, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the burying-place of Manoah his father. He judged Israel twenty years.
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At its core, מנוח (Mânôwach) means “Manoah.” Its uses cluster heavily in Judges (100% of all occurrences). Spanning 14 verses in 1 book, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Hebrew Bible. It first appears in Judges 13:2. Dig into 14-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
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About this word
Strong's H4495 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 →
- 14
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 14 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,612
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,612 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 14 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Judges 14 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 14 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 14 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).
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†: Manoah 17×
- American Standard Version†: Manoah 17×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Manoah 16×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Manoah 17×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H4495 across 18† 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.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H4495 across 18† 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.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H4495 across 17† 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. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H4495 across 18† 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 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 מנוח (mânôwach) (H4494) — resting place.
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
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 9 distinct written forms H4495 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| מָנ֑וֹחַ | Noun, Proper | Judges 13:2 | 3 |
| מָנ֔וֹחַ | Noun, Proper | Judges 13:12 | 3 |
| מָנ֛וֹחַ | Noun, Proper | Judges 13:8 | 3 |
| וּ/מָנ֥וֹחַ | Noun, Proper | Judges 13:9 | 2 |
| מָנ֖וֹחַ | Noun, Proper | Judges 13:11 | 2 |
| מָנ֣וֹחַ | Noun, Proper | Judges 13:21 | 2 |
| וּ/מָנ֤וֹחַ | Noun, Proper | Judges 13:20 | 1 |
| מָנ֗וֹחַ | Noun, Proper | Judges 13:16 | 1 |
| מָנ֜וֹחַ | Noun, Proper | Judges 13:19 | 1 |
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Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Manoah). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
Rest, a Danite, the father of Samson (Judg. 13:1-22, and 14:2-4).
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(rest), the father of Samson; a Danite, native of the town of Zorah. (Judges 13:2) (B.C. 1161) [Samson]
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
rest; a present
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 14 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 14 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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