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The Gathering of the Manna by James Tissot. Manna (Hebrew: מָן, Greek: μάννα; Arabic: اَلْمَنُّ), sometimes or archaically spelled mana, is described in the Bible and the Quran as an edible substance that God bestowed upon the Israelites while they were wandering the desert during the 40-year period that followed the Exodus and preceded the conquest of Canaan.
Mana (food), archaic name for manna, an edible substance mentioned in the Bible and Quran; Mana (Mandaeism), a term roughly equivalent to the philosophical concept of 'nous' Māna, a Buddhist term for 'pride', 'arrogance', or 'conceit' Mana (Finnish mythology), or Tuonela, the realm of the dead or the underworld
Mana; Pronunciation: Mah-nah (Japanese, feminine), Mah-nah (Persian, feminine) Gender: Female (Japanese), female (Persian) Origin; Word/name: Japanese, Persian, Indian
The name of Mannaea and its earliest recorded ruler Udaki were first mentioned in an inscription from the 30th year of the rule of Shalmaneser III (828 BC). [1] The Assyrians usually called Manna the "land of the Mannites", [2] Manash, [3] while the Urartians called it the land of Manna. [4]
Modern translations imply that Yahweh sent the plague as they were chewing the first meat that fell. [ 5 ] The biblical narrative argues that name of Kibroth-hattaavah , which appears to mean graves of lust , derives from these events, [ 6 ] since the plague killed the people who lusted after meat, who were then buried there. [ 6 ]
Reaching Marah, the place of a well of bitter water, bitterness and murmuring, Israel receives a first set of divine ordinances and the foundation of the Shabbat. The shortage of water there is followed by a shortness of food. Moses throws a log into the bitter water, making it sweet. Later God sends manna and quail. The desert is the ground ...
The Manna, by Poussin, 149 x 200 cm. The Manna (French: La Manne), formerly titled The Israelites Gathering Manna in the Desert (Les Israélites recueillant la manne dans le désert), is an oil painting by Poussin, dated to 1638 or 1639, which is now in the Louvre, in Paris. [1] The work is regarded as one of Poussin's most ambitious. [2]
The biblical episode of the manna describes God as instructing the Israelites to collect an omer for each person in your tent, implying that each person could eat an omer of manna a day. In ritual, the Omer offering (which began the Counting of the Omer ) consisted of an omer's quantity of freshly harvested grain.