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title: מָנַע — withhold · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מָנַע (4513), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 29 times: withhold. BDB 1906: vb. withhold, hold back. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מָנַע

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«מָנַע» in the Tanakh dictionary: **withhold** — 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:** 29 times · **Key:** 4513 · **BDB:** מָנַע

### Glosses

he (5); restrain (3); I.restrained (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

withhold [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4513/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. withhold, hold back [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4513/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. withhold, hold back (NH id.; Zinj. מנע DHMSendsch. 60; Arabic مَنَعَ; Sab. מנע Levy-OsZMG xix. 1865, 268; Aramaic מְנַע);— Pf. מ׳ Gn 30:2; sf. מְנָעַ֫נִי 1 S 25:34; מָנַ֫עְתָּ ψ 21:3 Ne 9:20, etc.; Impf. יִמְנַע־ ψ 84:12; sf. יִמְנָעֵ֫נִי 2 S 13:13 etc.; Imv. מְנַע Pr 1:15; מִנְעִי Je 2:25; 31:16; Pt. מֹנֵעַ Pr 11:26 Je 48:10;—withhold, sq. מִן Gn 30:2 (obj. פְּרִי־בֶטֶן), Am 4:7 (rain), Ne 9:20 (manna; all subj. י׳); Jb 22:7 (bread), 1 K 20:7 (obj. om.; both hum. subj.), so Je 48:10 (sword), Ec 2:10 (heart), Je 5:25 (good), Pr 3:27 (id.), 1:15 (foot); Je 2:25 (id.) 31:16 (voice); further, 2 S 13:13 (woman), Je 42:4 (דָּבָר), Jb 31:16 (מן part.), Pr 23:13 (correction), obj. om. י׳ subj. Pr 30:7; מִן om. Pr 11:26 (obj. corn); cf. ψ 21:3 subj. י׳ (obj. אֲרֶשֶׁת שְׂפָתָיו ‖ נָתַן תַּאֲוַת לֵב), Jb 20:13 fig. (wickedness), Ez 31:15 י׳ subj. (obj. rivers); obj. pers. י׳ subj. sq. מן Nu 24:11; sq. מִן + inf. 1 S 25:26, 34; sq. לְ, subj. י׳ ψ 84:12 (good). Pf. נִמְנַע Jo 1:13; Impf. יִמָּנַע Jb 38:15, etc.; be withholden sq. מִן, subj. מִנְחָה etc. Jo 1:13; light from wicked Jb 38:15; Nu 22:16 (sq. מִן + inf.); subj. showers (רְבִבִים) Je 3:3.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 29 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מָנַע» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4513/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 22:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.22.7/)

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לֹא־מַ֭יִם עָיֵ֣ף תַּשְׁקֶ֑ה וּ֝מֵרָעֵ֗ב תִּֽמְנַֽע־לָֽחֶם׃

*Word for word:* not water \[the\].weary you.have.given.to.drink and from.\[the\] hungry you.have.withheld bread

*JPS 1917:* Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.

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[Job 31:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.31.16/)

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אִם־אֶ֭מְנַע מֵחֵ֣פֶץ דַּלִּ֑ים וְעֵינֵ֖י אַלְמָנָ֣ה אֲכַלֶּֽה׃

*Word for word:* if I.restrained from desire poor.\[people\] and.\[the\] eyes of.a.widow I.caused.to.fail

*JPS 1917:* If I have withheld aught that the poor desired, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

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