מָנָה mânâh — properly, to weigh out
Translated in the KJV as appoint, count, number, prepare, set, tell.
a primitive root; properly, to weigh out; by implication, to allot or constitute officially; also to enumerate or enroll.
mânâh in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Infinitive construct 5Perfect (qatal) 2Participle (active) 2Imperative 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1Wayyiqtol 1
And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.
Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!
And again the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah.
Pi'el
Wayyiqtol 5Perfect (qatal) 3Imperative 1
So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
So will I sing praise unto thy name for ever, that I may daily perform my vows.
And the king appointed them a daily provision of the king’s meat, and of the wine which he drank: so nourishing them three years, that at the end thereof they might stand before the king.
Niph'al
Imperfect (yiqtol) 4Infinitive construct 1Perfect (qatal) 1
And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.
And thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude.
And king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel, that were assembled unto him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be told nor numbered for multitude.
Pu'al
Participle (passive) 1
Some of them also were appointed to oversee the vessels, and all the instruments of the sanctuary, and the fine flour, and the wine, and the oil, and the frankincense, and the spices.
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 ›
