Lexical Definition

‎מָן‎ mân (mawn) who? ^A:Intg
(Aramaic) from ‎מָה‎

what, who(-msoever, [phrase] -so).

• who or what (properly, interrogatively, hence, also indefinitely and relatively)

1) who?, what?, whoever, whosoever

Extended Information

Aramaic of: מָה

• Aramaic of mah (‎מ‎ָ‎ה‎ "what?" מָה)

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Hebrew form: מִי
‎מַן‎ (so Gi, with most MSS., supported by Syriac , Arabic ; see K^{§ 22, 1}), ‎מָן‎ (Baer: see on Dan 3:6), interrogative pronoun who? (Old Aramaic, Nabataean, Palmyrene ‎מן‎ Lzb³¹² Cooke¹⁸⁸), ᵑ7 ‎מן‎, Syriac , Ethiopic Arabic W^{CG 123:} Biblical Hebrew ‎מִי‎); —

1. who? Ezra 5:3; Ezra 5:9 strengthened by ‎הוּא‎, Dan 3:15 ‎וּמַןהֿוּא אֱלָהּ דִּי‎ who is the God who . . . ? (compare Syriac contracted from , and ‎מַנּוּ‎ in the Syriacizing ᵑ7 to Proverbs: also Biblical Hebrew ‎מִי הוּא‎, ‎הוּא‎ 4 b β); so in the plural Ezra 5:4 ‎מִןאִֿנוּן שְׁמָהָת‎ what (literally who: compare ‎מִי‎ 1 a, and Gen 32:28*; Exod 3:13 ᵑ7) are the names of . . .?

2. ‎מַןדּֿי‎ whosoever (literally who is there that . . .? see Biblical Hebrew ‎מִי‎ g) Dan 3:6; Dan 3:11 ‎מִןדִּֿי לָא יִפֵּל‎, Dan 4:14* ‎וּלְמִן דִּי יִצְבֵּא יִתְּנִנַּהּ‎ to whomsoever he willeth, he giveth it, v.Dan 4:22* v.Dan 4:29*; Dan 5:21 (so Nabataean ‎מן די‎, Cooke^{241, 325 ff.}; ᵑ7 ‎מַן דְּ‎; Syriac ; compare Egyptian Aramaic S-C^{Pap. K 7, 12} ‎ולמן זי צבית תנתן‎).

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