Lexicon man: who? Original Word: מַן־Part of Speech: interrogative pronoun Transliteration: man Phonetic Spelling: (mawn) Short Definition: whomever NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origin(Aramaic) corresponding to manDefinitionwho? NASB Translationwhat (2), who (2), whoever (2), whom* (1), whomever* (3).
Brown-Driver-Briggs מַן (so Gi, with most MSS., supported by Syriac  , Arabic  ; see K § 22, 1), מָן (Baer: see on Daniel 3:6), interrogative pronoun who? (Old Aramaic, Nabataean, Palmyrene מן Lzb312 Cooke188), ᵑ7 מן, Syriac  , Ethiopic  Arabic  WCG 123: Biblical Hebrew מִי); — 1 who? Ezra 5:3,9; strengthened by הוּא, Daniel 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 4b β); so in the plural Ezra 5:4 מִןאִֿנוּן שְׁמָהָת what (literally who: compare מִי 1a, and Genesis 32:28; Exodus 3:13 ᵑ7) are the names of . . .? 2 מַןדּֿי whosoever (literally who is there that . . .? see Biblical Hebrew מִי g) Daniel 3:6,11 מִןדִּֿי לָא יִמֵּל, Daniel 4:14 וּלְמִן דִּי יִצְבֵּא יִתְּנִנַּהּ to whomsoever he willeth, he giveth it, Daniel 4:22; Daniel 4:29; Daniel 5:21 (so Nabataean מן די, Cooke241, 325 ff.; ᵑ7 מַן דְּ; Syriac  ; compare Egyptian Aramaic S-CPap. K 7, 12 ולמן זי צבית תנתן).
Strong's what, whomsoever, (Aramaic) from mah; who or what (properly, interrogatively, hence, also indefinitely and relatively) -- what, who(-msoever, + -so). see HEBREW mah |
    |