1. portion, allotment, share — Feminine noun מְנָת (construct form of מָנָה) meaning a portion, allotment, or share — especially of food, offerings, or spoils distributed among recipients. Used in contexts of cultic portions assigned to priests and Levites (2 Chr 31:3,4; Neh 12:44,47, 13:10) and shared food portions (Est 2:9, Ps 16:5). Multilingual evidence converges: eng portion/portions, spa porción/porciones, hin भाग, arb حِصَّة/أَنْصِبَة, kor 몫, swa sehemu. The singular construct and plural forms represent grammatical number variation of the same concept. 7×
AR["أَنصِبَةَ","أَنْصِبَةَ","حِصَّةَ","نَصيبَ","نَصِيبَ","وَ-حِصَّةُ"]·ben["অংশ","অংশগুলি","ও-অংশ","ভাগ"]·DE["[ומנת]","[מנאות]","[מניות]","[מנת]","der-Teil-von","ein-Teil-für"]·EN["a-portion-for","and-portion-of","portion-of","portions","portions-of","the-portion-of"]·FR["[ומנת]","[מנאות]","[מניות]","[מנת]","de-part"]·heb["ו-מנת","מנאות","מניות","מנת"]·HI["और-भाग","भाग"]·ID["bagian","dan-bagian","porsi-porsi"]·IT["[ומנת]","[מנאות]","[מניות]","[מנת]","porzione"]·jav["Lan-bagian","bagean-bagean","bagian","bagéan","bagéyan","pandúm"]·KO["그리고-몶","몫들을","몫들이","몰-이","몶","몶-이"]·PT["E-porção-de","porção","porção-de","porções-de","será-a-porção"]·RU["долю","доля","и-доля","лисиц","порции"]·ES["porciones-de","porción-de","y-porción-de"]·SW["fungu","mnat","sehemu","sehemu-ya","sehemu-za","wּmnat"]·TR["Ve-payı","payları","paylarını","payı","payı-","payını"]·urd["اور-حصہ","حصہ","حصے","حِصّہ"]
Senses
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† [מְנָת] n.f. portion (= מָנָה, chiefly late; on form cf. Ges§ 95 n. LagBN 81, 150);—cstr. מְנָ֫ת 2 Ch 31:3 + 5 times; Pl. cstr. מְנָאוֹת Ne 12:44; מְנָיוֹת Ne 12:47; 13:10;—portion of king, for sacrifice, 2 Ch 31:3; of priest v 4; also Ne 12:44 מְנָאוֹת הַתּוֹרָה לַכּ׳; of Levites 13:10; of singers 12:47; fig. מְנָת כּוֹסָם ψ 11:6 (of judgment of wicked), cf. מ׳ שֻׁעָלִים ψ 63:11; so…