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title: מָנֶה — maneh · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מָנֶה (4488), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 5 times: maneh. BDB 1906: n.m. maneh, mina. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מָנֶה

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«מָנֶה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **maneh** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 5 times · **Key:** 4488 · **BDB:** מָנֶה

### Glosses

minas (4); mina (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

maneh [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4488/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. maneh, mina [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4488/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. maneh, mina, a weight (perhaps orig. a specific part; NH id.; Assyrian manû DlHWB 417; Aramaic ܡܰܢܝܳܐ, מַנְיָא);—מ׳ Ez 45:12; מָנִים 1 K 10:17 + 3 times;=50 shekels Ez 45:12 (on חֲמִשִּׁים for חֲמִשָּׁה v. Hi Co); of gold 1 K 10:17; of silver Ezr 2:69 Ne 7:71, 72.—The weight of the mina was 1/60 of talent; i.e. according to older (Bab.) standard, 982.2 grammes (=60 shekels at c. 16.37 g.)=c. 2 lbs.; in Ezekiel’s time the mina=50 shekels=818.6 g.=c. 1 2/3 lb. (cf. כִּכָּר, שֶׁקֶל). Vid. BenzArch. 187 ff. 194 NowArch. i. 208 f.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מָנֶה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4488/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Nehemiah 7:70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.7.70/)

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וּמֵֽרָאשֵׁ֣י הָֽאָב֗וֹת נָֽתְנוּ֙ לְאוֹצַ֣ר הַמְּלָאכָ֔ה זָהָ֕ב דַּרְכְּמוֹנִ֖ים שְׁתֵּ֣י רִבּ֑וֹת וְכֶ֕סֶף מָנִ֖ים אַלְפַּ֥יִם וּמָאתָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* and some of.the.heads of the.fathers they.gave to the.treasury of the.work gold drachmas two ten.thousands and silver minas two.thousand and two.hundred

*JPS 1917:* And some from among the heads of fathers' houses gave unto the work. The Tirshatha gave to the treasury a thousand darics of gold, fifty basins, five hundred and thirty priests' tunics.

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[Nehemiah 7:71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.7.71/)

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וַאֲשֶׁ֣ר נָתְנוּ֮ שְׁאֵרִ֣ית הָעָם֒ זָהָ֗ב דַּרְכְּמוֹנִים֙ שְׁתֵּ֣י רִבּ֔וֹא וְכֶ֖סֶף מָנִ֣ים אַלְפָּ֑יִם וְכָתְנֹ֥ת כֹּֽהֲנִ֖ים שִׁשִּׁ֥ים וְשִׁבְעָֽה׃פ

*Word for word:* and.\[that\] which they.gave the.remainder of the.people \[was\].gold drachmas two ten.thousand and silver minas two.thousand and tunics of.priests sixty and seven

*JPS 1917:* And some of the heads of fathers' houses gave into the treasury of the work twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand and two hundred pounds of silver.

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