מָנַע

Genesis 30:2 מָנַ֥ע he has withheld

Jacob became angry with Rachel and said, “Am I in the place of God, who has withheld children from you?”

Here: The perfect tense presents this as a settled fact: God has held back what would otherwise come. The verb does not in itself say God is punishing her.

Numbers 22:16 תִמָּנַ֖ע let yourself be restrained

They came to Balaam and said, “This is what Balak son of Zippor says: ‘Please let nothing hinder you from coming to me,

Numbers 24:11 מְנָעֲךָ֥ he has withheld you

Therefore, flee at once to your home! I said I would reward you richly, but instead the LORD has denied your reward.”

1 Samuel 25:26 מְנָעֲךָ֤ he has restrained you

Now, my lord, as surely as the LORD lives and you yourself live, since the LORD has held you back from bloodshed and from avenging yourself with your own hand, may your enemies and those who seek harm for my lord be like Nabal.

Here: A past-tense verb, though David has not actually turned back yet. Abigail talks as if God has already done it, and so invites David to make it true.

1 Samuel 25:34 מְנָעַ֔נִי he has restrained me

Otherwise, as surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, who has restrained me from harming you, if you had not come quickly to meet me, then surely no male belonging to Nabal would have been left alive by morning light.”

2 Samuel 13:13 יִמְנָעֵ֖נִי he will withhold me

Where could I ever take my shame? And you would be like one of the fools in Israel! Please speak to the king, for he will not withhold me from you.”

1 Kings 20:7 מָנַ֖עְתִּי I withheld [them]

Then the king of Israel summoned all the elders of the land and said, “Please take note and see that this man is looking for trouble, for when he demanded my wives, my children, my silver, and my gold, I did not deny him.”

Nehemiah 9:20 מָנַ֣עְתָּ you withheld

You gave Your good Spirit to instruct them. You did not withhold Your manna from their mouths, and You gave them water for their thirst.

Here: To hold back or deny something. It echoes 'manna' in sound (man… mānaʿ): the manna (man) was not withheld (mānaʿ).

Job 20:13 וְ֝יִמְנָעֶ֗נָּה and he withholds it

though he cannot bear to let it go and keeps it in his mouth,

Job 22:7 תִּֽמְנַֽע־ you have withheld

You gave no water to the weary and withheld food from the famished,

Here: To keep back something you could have given. It assumes Job had the bread and chose to refuse it. Like the first verb, it describes a pattern of behaviour.

Job 31:16 אֶ֭מְנַע I withheld

If I have denied the desires of the poor or allowed the widow’s eyes to fail,

Here: "I held back / refused." The Hebrew form describes ongoing or repeated action, so the sense is "if I was the kind of man who refused." It means deliberately keeping back something one could have given.

Job 38:15 וְיִמָּנַ֣ע so it may be withheld

Light is withheld from the wicked, and their upraised arm is broken.

Here: A passive verb ('is held back, is kept from'), joined by 'and' to the dawn scene of vv.12–14. It carries on the purpose of God's command to the morning: when dawn comes, something is taken away from the wicked. The verb form describes something that happens again and again: every morning.

Psalm 21:2 מָנַ֥עְתָּ you have withheld

You have granted his heart’s desire and have not withheld the request of his lips. Selah

Psalm 84:11 יִמְנַע־ he withholds

For the LORD God is a sun and a shield; the LORD gives grace and glory; He withholds no good thing from those who walk with integrity.

Here: To keep back or refuse something one could give, as rain is 'withheld' in Jer 3:3 and Amos 4:7. Like 'gives', it describes YHWH's settled habit.

Proverbs 1:15 מְנַ֥ע restrain

my son, do not walk the road with them or set foot upon their path.

Here: A command: 'hold back!' The verb assumes something is moving or wants to move, and you check it. The father expects the young man to feel the pull, and tells him to hold himself back.

Proverbs 3:27 תִּמְנַע־ you withhold

Do not withhold good from the deserving when it is within your power to act.

Here: "You hold back." The verb pictures keeping back something that would otherwise go to someone. It is about refusing or delaying, not about failing to think of it.

Proverbs 11:26 מֹ֣נֵֽעַ [one who] withholds

The people will curse the hoarder of grain, but blessing will crown the one who sells it.

Here: A participle describing a habit or role: 'the one who holds back.' Hebrew puts him first in the sentence like a heading ('The grain-withholder: the people curse him'). This shows who is being talked about. The verb means keeping back something that could or should go out to others, as in Proverbs 3:27, 'Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due.'

Proverbs 23:13 תִּמְנַ֣ע you withhold

Do not withhold discipline from a child; although you strike him with a rod, he will not die.

Here: "Hold back" something that is owed or needed, as rain is withheld (Jer 3:3) or good is withheld from someone who deserves it (Prov 3:27). It treats correction as something the young person is owed, and assumes the adult is tempted to hold it back out of softness or reluctance.

Proverbs 30:7 תִּמְנַ֥ע you withhold [them]

Two things I ask of You—do not refuse me before I die:

Here: 'Do not hold back.' The verb pictures someone keeping back something he could give. The speaker assumes the two things are in God's hand to give or keep, and asks God not to keep them.

Ecclesiastes 2:10 מָנַ֨עְתִּי I restrained

Anything my eyes desired, I did not deny myself. I refused my heart no pleasure. For my heart took delight in all my work, and this was the reward for all my labor.

Here: "I withheld, I kept back." The common verb for refusing something to someone (e.g. Gen 30:2; Ps 84:11). He never put a brake on his own inner drive.

Jeremiah 2:25 מִנְעִ֤י restrain

You should have kept your feet from going bare and your throat from being thirsty. But you said, ‘It is hopeless! For I love foreign gods, and I must go after them.’

Here: A command addressed to a woman (feminine singular): 'hold back, rein in.' God is urging his people, pictured as a wife, to stop the frantic running described in vv. 23–24.

Jeremiah 3:3 וַיִּמָּנְע֣וּ and they have been withheld

Therefore the showers have been withheld, and no spring rains have fallen. Yet you have the brazen look of a prostitute; you refuse to be ashamed.

Here: A passive verb ('were held back') that follows on from the narrative. It presents the drought as the result of the infidelity in verse 2, which is why most English versions say 'Therefore'. Nobody is named as the one who held the rain back, but in Israel's covenant thinking that was understood to be God (compare Amos 4:7, 'I withheld the rain from you').

Jeremiah 5:25 מָנְע֥וּ they have withheld

Your iniquities have diverted these from you; your sins have deprived you of My bounty.

Here: 'Have withheld': kept something back that would otherwise have been given. Jeremiah used the same verb for the rains already: 'the showers have been withheld' (3:3).

Jeremiah 31:16 מִנְעִ֤י restrain

This is what the LORD says: “Keep your voice from weeping and your eyes from tears, for the reward for your work will come, declares the LORD. Then your children will return from the land of the enemy.

Here: A feminine singular command addressed to Rachel. The verb means to hold something back or keep it in, like rain withheld (Jer 3:3) or a foot kept from a road (Jer 2:25). This is not a rebuke for grieving. Rachel is told she can let go of her weeping because a reason (kî, 'for') follows.

Jeremiah 42:4 אֶמְנַ֥ע I will withhold

“I have heard you,” replied Jeremiah the prophet. “I will surely pray to the LORD your God as you request, and I will tell you everything that the LORD answers. I will not withhold a word from you.”

Jeremiah 48:10 מֹנֵ֥עַ [one who] withholds

Cursed is the one who is remiss in doing the work of the LORD, and cursed is he who withholds his sword from bloodshed.

Here: 'The one holding back', who keeps something from where it should go. Elsewhere the same verb is used for rain withheld or good withheld. The sword is meant for one use, and this person keeps it from that use.

Ezekiel 31:15 וָֽאֶמְנַע֙ and I withheld

This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘On the day it was brought down to Sheol, I caused mourning. I covered the deep because of it; I held back its rivers; its abundant waters were restrained. I made Lebanon mourn for it, and all the trees of the field fainted because of it.

Joel 1:13 נִמְנַ֛ע it has been withheld

Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests; wail, O ministers of the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God, because the grain and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God.

Here: A passive verb in a completed form: the offerings 'have been held back' and are now missing. No one is named as holding them back. The cause is the destroyed harvest described in 1:4–12, not people refusing to give.

Amos 4:7 מָנַ֨עְתִּי I withheld

“I also withheld the rain from you when the harvest was three months away. I sent rain on one city but withheld it from another. One field received rain; another without rain withered.

Here: 'I held back.' A deliberate refusal to hand over something that was due or expected. The form presents it as a completed act.