The corpus record — Hebrew

מָנַ֥ע

mana

motor, engine

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Distribution

Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) 29 · 0.95/10k

Senses

1. מֶנְע

motor, engine

2. מנע

to keep back, withhold

3. מנע

to motorize

4. מָנַע

withhold, hold back

5. מָנַע

to debar (negatively or positively) from benefit or injury

Attestations

מָנַ֥ע Genesis 30:2 (BHS)
תִמָּנַ֖ע Numbers 22:16 (BHS)
מְנָעֲ/ךָ֥ Numbers 24:11 (BHS)
מְנָעֲ/ךָ֤ 1 Samuel 25:26 (BHS)
מְנָעַ֔/נִי 1 Samuel 25:34 (BHS)
יִמְנָעֵ֖/נִי 2 Samuel 13:13 (BHS)

6 of 29 attestations shown.

Deep etymology

Authority pointers, pending review

These are the etymology authorities that treat this word, with their exact locators. They are bibliographic pointers, not a published word history: no root, reconstruction, derivation, cognate, or origin is asserted here.

Klein, A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language (Carta 1987) scan p. 382; entry #9314 Review: Under source audit

The authorities' own wording is withheld pending review. Each source's identity, locator, and review status are cited above.

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Hebrew text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology and lemmatization from the OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible (OSHB), CC BY 4.0. Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) lexicon, public domain.