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Meni (deity: god of fate or destiny)
The name of a deity associated with fate or destiny, mentioned in Isaiah 65:11 alongside Gad (Fortune). Israelites who 'fill cups for Meni' are condemned for apostasy—they're offering drink offerings to this foreign god of fate rather than trusting Yahweh. Related to Arabic deities Maniyyat and Manat, and attested in Nabatean inscriptions, Meni represents the pagan belief that impersonal fate rather than the covenant God controlled destiny.
Senses
1. sense 1 — Isaiah 65:11 condemns those who 'fill mixed wine for Meni,' a deity of fate worshiped alongside Gad (Fortune). The name connects to Arabic Maniyyat and Manat (goddesses of fate/death), and appears in Nabatean as 'his Manat.' Translations consistently transliterate (English 'Meni,' Spanish 'Mení'), recognizing this as a divine name. Worshiping Meni represented abandoning Yahweh's sovereign providence for belief in impersonal destiny. 1×
AR["لِ-مَنِي"]·ben["ভাগ্যের-জন্য"]·DE["[למני]"]·EN["for-Meni"]·FR["[למני]"]·heb["ל-מני"]·HI["मनी-के-लिए"]·ID["bagi-Meni"]·IT["[למני]"]·jav["kangge-Mèni"]·KO["에-메니를-위해"]·PT["para-Meni"]·RU["для-Мени"]·ES["para-Mení"]·SW["kwa-Hatima"]·TR["Meni-icin"]·urd["منی-کے-لیے"]
Related Senses
H3808 1. simple negation (not) (4839×)G1722 1. locative: in, within (2442×)H1004b 1. house, dwelling, building (2015×)G3756 1. not (negation particle) (1635×)H4480a 1. source or separation (1198×)H5892b 1. city, town (1093×)G1519 1. direction: into, to, toward (1061×)H3427 1. Qal: to dwell, inhabit (937×)G1537 1. from, out of (source/origin) (886×)H8034 1. Name (designation / identifier) (856×)G3361 1. subjective negation (not) (834×)G1909 1. on, upon (spatial surface) (757×)H0369 1. existential negation: there is not (738×)H5869a 1. in the eyes/sight of (evaluative) (734×)H5650 1. Servant, attendant, subject (723×)H0408 1. prohibitive negation do-not (712×)G2443 1. so that, in order that (purpose/result) (665×)G0575 1. from (649×)G1223 1. through, by means of (582×)H3541 1. thus, so, in this manner (569×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† מְנִי n.pr.div. Menî, god of fate (award, apportionment; cf. Arabic n.pr. div. Maniyyat, and perhaps Manât, WeSkizzen iii. 22 f. 189, مَنَوَاتٌ NöZMG xl. 1886, 709; in Nab. מנותו EutNab. No. 2, 1. 5, etc.);—מִלֵּא לַמְנִי מִמְסָךְ Is 65:11 (‖ לַגַּד)—v. Che Di BaeSem. Rel. 79.