manna
IPA: mˈænʌ
noun
- (biblical) Food miraculously produced for the Israelites in the desert in the book of Exodus.
- (by extension) Any boon which comes into one's hands by good luck.
- The sugary sap of the manna gum tree which oozes out from holes drilled by insects and falls to the ground around the tree.http://www.museum.vic.gov.au/forest/plants/gum.html
- A surname from Italian.
- A surname from Bengali.
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Examples of "manna" in Sentences
- It was manna from heaven, so to speak .
- Manna from heaven and the airborne rangers.
- The more manna, the more upgrade possibilities.
- Bdellium is whitish in colour, similar to manna.
- The Manna is the dessert sustained them in their journey.
- There is no connection whatsoever between manna and mana.
- This verse is in the context of collecting the Manna bread.
- What we call manna croup is also used in a variety of ways.
- It seems to me to assert that manna is the excretion of bugs.
- Operation Manna, last month or so of the war in the Netherlands.
- And the Manna ceased on the morrow when they ate of the produce of the land...
- They also took some oil they consider holy manna from a chinese place w/o asking for permission and were ribbed for stealing.
- But because everyone was asking the same question, the strange milky white ground cover was called manna in ancient Hebrew, manna means “What is it?” as noted in Exodus 16:15, 31.
- In Republican legend, there was once a great warrior who could drink a quart of vodka, play 18 holes of golf and still be able to deny humanity while receiving much manna from the Wall Street demons.
- She participated in her early days as a web designer in some of the same lists that I do, and she was so eager to learn it was something to watch — she sucked up new information like it was manna from the gods.
- But as to the derivation of the word manna, whether from man, which Josephus says then signified What is it or from mannah, to divide, i.e., a dividend or portion allotted to every one, it is uncertain: I incline to the latter derivation.
- Fair ladies, you drop manna in the way Of starved people] [Shakespeare is not more exact in any thing, than in adapting his images with propriety to his speakers; of which he has here given an instance in making the young Jewess call good fortune, _manna_.