Strong's Concordance manna: manna Original Word: μάννα, τόPart of Speech: Hebrew Form (Indclinable) Transliteration: manna Phonetic Spelling: (man'-nah) Short Definition: manna Definition: (Hebrew), manna, the supernatural food eaten by the Israelites in the desert: of spiritual food. HELPS Word-studies 3131 mánna – literally, "What is it?" – the question asked by the wandering Israelites in the OT when God gave them manna (divinely-sent bread wafers) (see Nu 11:6). 3131 /mánna ("necessary provisions") refers to what God provides to live in His preferred-will (cf. 2307 /thélēma). [G. H. C. MacGregor, "There is evidence to show that Jewish theology regarded the giving of the manna as the miracle par excellence, the non plus ultra even for the Messiah. In fact, the Rabbis taught that Messiah would prove his authority by repeating just this miracle by which, they held, Moses had proved his. 'As was the first Redeemer,' so ran the Midrash, 'so shall be the final Redeemer; as the first Redeemer caused the manna to fall from heaven, even so shall the second Redeemer cause the manna to fall' " (The Gospel of John, London, 1928, pp 142-43; cf. Ecclesiastes Rabbah 1.9).] Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 3131: μάνναμάννα, τό, indeclinable; (also) ἡ μάννα in Josephus (Antiquities 3, 13, 1 (etc.; ἡ μαννη, Sibylline Oracles 8, 411)); the Sept. τό μαν (also τό μάννα, a, Numbers 11:7) for Hebrew מָן (from the unused מָנַן, Arabic d. seances de l'acad. des sciences. Paris 1861, 2de semestre (30 the Sept.), p. 583ff); especially Ritter, Erdkunde Part xiv. pp. 665-695 (Gage's translation, vol. i., pp. 271-292, where a full list of references is given); especially E. Renaud and E. Lacour, De la manne du desert etc. (1881). Against the indentification of the natural manna with the miraculous, see BB. DD., under the word; especially Riehm in his HWB; Carruthers in the Bible Educator ii. 174ff). In the N. T. mention is made of a. that manna with which the Israelites of old were nourished: John 6:31, 49, and R L in 58; b. that which was kept in the ark of the covenant: Hebrews 9:4(Exodus 16:33); c. that which in the symbolic language of Revelation 2:17 is spoken of as kept in the heavenly temple for the food of angels and the blessed; (see δίδωμι, B. I., p. 146a). Of Hebrew origin (man); manna (i.e. Man), an edible gum -- manna. see HEBREW man Englishman's Concordance Strong's Greek 31314 Occurrences μάννα — 4 Occ. John 6:31 Heb GRK: ἡμῶν τὸ μάννα ἔφαγον ἐν NAS: ate the manna in the wilderness; KJV: fathers did eat manna in the desert; INT: of us the manna ate in John 6:49 Heb Hebrews 9:4 Heb Revelation 2:17 Heb |