מִנְיָן
number
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H4510 appears — 1 distinct verse 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.
Ezra 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.
The Hebrew noun מנין centers on the idea of “number.” It is rare — just 1 verse in the entire Hebrew Bible. The word gravitates to Ezra (100%). Found nowhere else but Ezra 6:17. It clusters with מנא and מנא under a shared root. 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 H4510 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 →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Ezra 1 verse 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 1 distinct verse.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: According to the number 1×
- American Standard Version: According to the number 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: not separately translated
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: According to the number of 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H4510 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H4510 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Does not render H4510 with a distinct English word (not separately translated in its 1 tagged occurrence).
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H4510 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense 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.
- number
Word origin
מִנְיָן n.[m.] number;—cstr. Ezr 6:17.
— 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.
מִנַּיִן
- , v. מִן h.
מִנְיָן
- number, count; ballot, vote. B. Mets. 6ᵇ; Bekh. 59ᵇ, a. e. מ׳ הראוי פוטר a count properly begun redeems, i.e. if one began to count ten or more animals for tithing purposes, and during the count one animal died or ran off, those which passed the rod are redeemed. Ib. איפטרו להו במ׳ הראוי they were redeemed by means of the (interrupted) count properly begun.—רוב המ׳, רוב מִנְיָנוֹ, v. בִּנְיָן.—Bets. 3ᵇ דבר שישנו במ׳ Ms. M. (ed. דבר שבמ׳); Zeb. 73ᵃ דבר שיש בו מ׳ objects sold by the piece.—Y. Ber. I, 3ᵃ top נעמוד על המ׳ let us decide by vote; Tosef. Ohol. IV, 2 נעמוד למ׳. Eduy. I, 5, a. fr. גדול … בחכמה ובמ׳ superior to a previous meeting of scholars in learning and numbers. Bets. 5ᵃ כל דבר שבמ׳ צריך מ׳ וכ׳ a prohibitory measure passed by ballot, requires another ballot to be abrogated (although the reason for the measure has ceased to exist). Snh. 26ᵃ קשר … אינו מן המ׳ a measure passed in a meeting of wicked men does not count (deserves no consideration on the part of successors). Ḥull. 97ᵇ אין … מן המ׳ does not count, is not included.—Num. R. s. 1 במִנְיַן ישראל at the census of the Israelites in the desert; a. fr.—[In later Hebrew: מ׳ the requisite number of males for congregational worship.]
מִנְיַן
- Targ. Gen. XXXIV, 30. Targ. Num. I, 2; a. fr.—Sabb. 73ᵇ מ׳ למה לי why does the Mishnah state the number (39)?; Kerith. 2ᵇ; a. fr.—Bekh. 60ᵃ bot. הואיל ואיתיה במ׳ פרסאה וכ׳ because it occurs in the Persian (?) system of counting that they call ten one.—Snh. 36ᵃ; Gitt. 59ᵃ אנא הואי במ׳ I was one of the voters in the school of Rabbi, and with me they commenced. Y. Snh. I, 18ᶜ top [read:] אין אנא סלקית ממ׳ וכ׳ whether or not I was counted in (to make up the required number); a. fr.—Pl. מִנְיָנַיָּא, מִנְיָינֵי, מִי׳. Targ. Num. I, 44; a. fr.—Gitt. l. c.; כולהו מִנְיָנַיְיהוּ וכ׳ in all their ballots they began their vote from the side benches (with the juniors).—Sabb. 66ᵇ כל מ׳ וכ׳ all incantations which are repeated several times, must contain the name of the patient’s mother; a. e.
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.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H4510, 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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Shares the same root
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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