What does manna mean?

Definitions for manna
ˈmæn əman·na

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. mannanoun

    hardened sugary exudation of various trees

  2. miraculous food, manna, manna from heavennoun

    (Old Testament) food that God gave the Israelites during the Exodus

Wiktionary

  1. mannanoun

    Food miraculously produced for the Israelites in the desert in the book of Exodus.

  2. mannanoun

    By extension, any good thing which comes into one's hands by luck or good fortune.

  3. mannanoun

    The sugary sap of the manna gum tree which oozes out from holes drilled by insects and falls to the ground around the tree.

    1966: The icing on the cake was made from manna, which was gathered under the manna gums. Manna mixed with milk made a splendid icing. uE000202085uE001 Bill Beatty, Tales of Old Australia, National Distributors, ISBN 1-86436-013-5, page 14, discussing old Australian foods

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Mannanoun

    Manna is properly a gum, and is honey-like juice concreted into a solid form, seldom so dry but it adheres more or less to the fingers in handling: its colour is whitish, yellowish, or brownish, and it has in taste the sweetness of sugar, and with it a sharpness that renders it very agreeable: we are supplied with manna from Calabria and Sicily, which is the product of two different trees, but which are of the same genus, being both varieties of the ash: when the heats of summer are free from rain, the leaves, the trunks, and branches of both these trees, exsudate a white honey juice, which concretes into what we call manna, forming itself as it runs, and according to its different quantity, into small roundish drops, or long flakes: what flows out of the leaves of these trees is all natural, but the Italians procure a forced kind by wounding the trunks and branches: the finest manna of all is that which oozes naturally out of the leaves in August, after the season of collecting the common manna is over: the French have another sort of manna, produced from the larch tree, of a very different genus of the ash, and the very tree which produces oil of turpentine; this is called Briançon manna, from the country where it is produced: our black thorn, or sloe tree, sometimes yield a true manna from the ribs of the leaves in Autumn, but it is in a very small quantity: there is another sort called the manna Persia, produced from a small prickly shrub about four or five feet high, growing in Egypt, Armenia, Georgia, and Persia. The Hebrews, who had been acquainted with the last mentioned sort of manna, when they found a miraculous food in the desert resembling it, did not scruple to call it manna: this was a conjecture the more natural to them, as they saw plainly that this descended from the heavens in form of a dew, and concreted into the globules in which they found it; and the received opinion at that time was, that the Oriental manna was formed in the same manner; that it was a dew from the clouds concreted on the plant, none supposing, in those early times, that it was the natural juice of the shrub upon which it was found: it is however evident, that this was not of the nature of manna, because it melted away as the sun grew hot, whereas manna hardens in that heat. It is but lately that the world were convinced of the mistake of manna being an aërial produce, by an experiment being made by covering a tree with sheets in the manna season, and the finding as much manna on it afterwards as on those which were open to the air and dew. Manna is celebrated, both by the ancients and moderns, as a gentle and mild cathartick. Hill.

    It would be well inquired, whether manna doth fall but upon certain herbs, or leaves only. Francis Bacon, Nat. Hist.

    The manna in heaven will suit every man’s palate. John Locke.

Wikipedia

  1. Manna

    Manna (Hebrew: מָן, romanized: mān, Greek: μάννα; Arabic: اَلْمَنُّ; sometimes or archaically spelled mana) is, according to the Bible, an edible substance which God provided for the Israelites during their travels in the desert during the 40-year period following the Exodus and prior to the conquest of Canaan. It is also mentioned in the Quran three times.

ChatGPT

  1. manna

    Manna is a substance miraculously supplied as food to the Israelites in the wilderness during their journey to the promised land, according to the Bible. It is often used metaphorically to refer to an unexpected aid, advantage, or assistance. In a broader context, it can also be a type of secretion or resin from certain plants or trees, used in some traditional medicines or foods.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Mannanoun

    the food supplied to the Israelites in their journey through the wilderness of Arabia; hence, divinely supplied food

  2. Mannanoun

    a name given to lichens of the genus Lecanora, sometimes blown into heaps in the deserts of Arabia and Africa, and gathered and used as food

  3. Mannanoun

    a sweetish exudation in the form of pale yellow friable flakes, coming from several trees and shrubs and used in medicine as a gentle laxative, as the secretion of Fraxinus Ornus, and F. rotundifolia, the manna ashes of Southern Europe

  4. Etymology: [L., fr. Gr. ma`nna, Heb. mn; cf. Ar. mann, properly, gift (of heaven).]

Wikidata

  1. Manna

    Manna or al-Mann wa al-Salwa, sometimes or archaically spelled mana, is an edible substance that, according to Abrahamic doctrine, God provided for the Israelites during their travels in the desert according to the Bible and the Qur'an.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Manna

    man′a, n. the food supplied to the Israelites in the wilderness of Arabia: delicious food for body or mind: a sweet juice or gum got from many trees, as the ash of Sicily.—adj. Mannif′erous. [Heb. mān hū, what is it? or from man, a gift.]

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. Manna

    the food with which the Israelites were miraculously fed in the wilderness, a term which means "What is this?" being the expression of surprise of the Israelites on first seeing it.

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. MANNA

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Manna is ranked #9466 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Manna surname appeared 3,437 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Manna.

    81.2% or 2,792 total occurrences were White.
    7.1% or 246 total occurrences were Asian.
    6.8% or 235 total occurrences were Black.
    3.4% or 118 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    1% or 35 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    0.3% or 11 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of manna in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of manna in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of manna in a Sentence

  1. Tyron Edwards:

    Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door.

  2. John Keats:

    Though the most beautiful creature were waiting for me at the end of a journey or a walk; though the carpet were of silk, the curtains of the morning clouds; the chairs and sofa stuffed with cygnet's down; the food manna, the wine beyond claret, the window opening on Winander Mere, I should not feel --or rather my happiness would not be so fine, as my solitude is sublime.

  3. Grover Norquist:

    Taxing businesses is the Democrats' version of manna from heaven: someone else supposedly is paying for the government. But all citizens are hurt through lower growth, higher prices, lower wages, taxes should be transparent. It should be clear who is paying them. The corporate income tax is designed to hide the tax burden.

  4. Tryon Edwards:

    Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

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