STRONGS NUMBER H4479


Word Summary
man: who?
Original Word: מָן
Transliteration: man
Phonetic Spelling: (mawn)
Part of Speech: interrogative pronoun
Short Definition: who?
Meaning: who, what
Strong's Concordance
what, whomsoever,

(Aramaic) from mah; who or what (properly, interrogatively, hence, also indefinitely and relatively) -- what, who(-msoever, + -so).

see HEBREW mah

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H4479. man

מַן‎ (so Gi, with most MSS., supported by Syriac , Arabic ; see K§ 22, 1), מָן‎ (Baer: see on Daniel 3:6),

interrogative pronoun who? (Old Aramaic, Nabataean, Palmyrene מן‎ Lzb312 Cooke188), מן ᵑ7‎, Syriac , Ethiopic Arabic WCG 123: Biblical Hebrew מִי‎); —

1 who? Ezra 5:3, 9; strengthened by הוּא‎, Daniel 3:15 דִּי אֱלָהּ וּמַןהֿוּאwho is the God who . . . ? (compare Syriac contracted from , and מַנּוּ‎ in the Syriacizing ᵑ7‎ to Proverbs: also Biblical Hebrew הוּא הוּא, מִי4b β); so in the plural Ezra 5:4 שְׁמָהָת מִןאִֿנוּןwhat (literally who: compare מִי1a, and Genesis 32:28; Exodus 3:13 ᵑ7‎) are the names of . . ..

2 מַןדּֿיwhosoever (literally who is there that . . .? see Biblical Hebrew מִי

g) Daniel 3:6, 11 יִמֵּל לָא מִןדִּֿי‎, 4:14 יִתְּנִנַּהּ יִצְבֵּא דִּי וּלְמִן‎ to whomsoever he willeth, he giveth it, 4:22; 4:29; 5:21 (so Nabataean די מן‎, Cooke241, 325 ff.; דְּ מַן ᵑ7‎; Syriac ; compare Egyptian Aramaic S-CPap. K 7, 12 תנתן צבית זי ולמן‎).