מָנַע mânaʻ — to debar (negatively or positively) from benefit or injury
Translated in the KJV as deny, keep, refrain, restrain, withhold.
a primitive root; to debar (negatively or positively) from benefit or injury.
mânaʻ in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 10Imperfect (yiqtol) 6Imperative 3Jussive 3Participle (active) 2Wayyiqtol 1
And Jacob’s anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, Am I in God’s stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?
Therefore now flee thou to thy place: I thought to promote thee unto great honour; but, lo, the Lord hath kept thee back from honour.
Now therefore, my lord, as the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, seeing the Lord hath withholden thee from coming to shed blood, and from avenging thyself with thine own hand, now let thine enemies, and they that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.
Niph'al
Jussive 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1Wayyiqtol 1Perfect (qatal) 1
And they came to Balaam, and said to him, Thus saith Balak the son of Zippor, Let nothing, I pray thee, hinder thee from coming unto me:
And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arm shall be broken.
Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore’s forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›