מְנָא mᵉnâʼ — to count, appoint
Translated in the KJV as number, ordain, set.
(Aramaic) or מְנָה; (Aramaic), corresponding to H4487; to count, appoint.
mᵉnâʼ in each stem
Pa'el
Perfect (qatal) 3Imperative 1
And thou, Ezra, after the wisdom of thy God, that is in thine hand, set magistrates and judges, which may judge all the people that are beyond the river, all such as know the laws of thy God; and teach ye them that know them not.
Therefore Daniel went in unto Arioch, whom the king had ordained to destroy the wise men of Babylon: he went and said thus unto him; Destroy not the wise men of Babylon: bring me in before the king, and I will shew unto the king the interpretation.
Then Daniel requested of the king, and he set Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed–nego, over the affairs of the province of Babylon: but Daniel sat in the gate of the king.
Pe'al
Perfect (qatal) 1
This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.
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 ›