King James Version
Exodus 16:31 in the King James Version says “And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was li...” — study this verse from Exodus chapter 16 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.”
Exodus 16:31 · KJV
See, for that the LORD hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.
So the people rested on the seventh day.
And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.
And Moses said, This is the thing which the LORD commandeth, Fill an omer of it to be kept for your generations; that they may see the bread wherewith I have fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt.
And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pot, and put an omer full of manna therein, and lay it up before the LORD, to be kept for your generations.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“called”
H7121to call out to (i.e., properly, address by name, but used in a wide variety of applications)
“And the house”
H1004a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
“of Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“the name”
H8034an appellation, as a mark or memorial of individuality; by implication honor, authority, character
“thereof Manna”
H4478literally a whatness (so to speak), i.e., manna (so called from the question about it)
he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demo
“and the taste”
H2940properly, a taste, i.e., (figuratively) perception; by implication, intelligence; transitively, a mandate
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