Strong’s
H4478bInterrogative1 time in the Hebrew BibleWhere it occurs
Translated as
In the text
- Exodus 16:15מָן
When the Israelites saw it, they asked one another, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was. So Moses told them, “It is the bread that the LORD has given you to eat.
Brown-Driver-Briggs
מָן in Ex 16:15 (with reference to the manna), most prob. ‘What is it?’ the question being intended as a popular etym. of מָן ‘manna’
Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.