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However, the manna is also associated with dew ( "When the dew descended upon the camp, the manna would descend upon it" -- Numbers 11: 9), which connotes an utterly unilateral initiative from Above

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  1. noun In the Bible, the food miraculously provided for the Israelites in the wilderness during their flight from Egypt.
  2. noun Spiritual nourishment of divine origin.
  3. noun Something of value that a person receives unexpectedly: viewed the bonus as manna from heaven.
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  • However, the manna is also associated with dew ( "When the dew descended upon the camp, the manna would descend upon it" -- Numbers 11: 9), which connotes an utterly unilateral initiative from Above —  Chabad.org Weekly Magazine [ Korach 5769 - June 26, 2009 ]
  • Thy peace and love and righteousness is conceived and realized amid earthly environments as it is in the highest state of harmony Give to us each day the hidden manna, the living word that sustains us, and give us the truth for error as we in our divine likeness to Thee, give truth for error to those who err against us Leave or let us not in temptation, but preserve us from all thoughts that would dishonor Thee, for Thine is the kingdom and power and glory forever That is wonderful. —  The Right Knock A Story
  • Many workingmen imagine, in fact, that--without doing anything to form themselves into a class-conscious party--they will win some day the capital prize, the social revolution, just as the manna is said to have come down from heaven to feed the Hebrews Scientific socialism has pointed out that the transforming power decreases as we descend the scale from one process to another, that of revolution being less than that of evolution, and that of rebellion being less than that of revolution, and individual violence having the least of all. —  Socialism and Modern Science (Darwin, Spencer, Marx)
  • And in the tomb of Saint John is nought but manna, that is clept angels' meat. —  The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure
  • It occurs abundantly in manna, which is the partly dried sap of the manna-ash (_Fraxinus ornus_). —  Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise
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  1. Middle English, from Old English, from Late Latin, from Greek, from Aramaic mannā, from Hebrew mān; see mnn in Semitic roots.

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  1. from Middle English manna, manne, from Anglo-Saxon manna, monna = D. G. Danish Swedish Gothic (Moesogothic) manna = French manne = Spanish maná = Portuguese maná, manná = Italian manna, from Latin manna, feminine (Pliny), Late Latin (Vulgate) manna, and man, neuter or indeclinable, from Greek μάννα, a concrete vegetable exudation, a grain, in the Old Testament manna, from Hebrew mān (= Arabic mann), manna, described, as found by the Israelites, as “a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground. And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna [in the Vulgate: “Manhu? quod significat: Quid est hoc?”]: for they wist not what it was” (Ex. xvi. 14, 15), implying that the name thus arose from the question, Hebrew mān hū, ‘what is this?’; but this is doubtless a popular etymology. The name is otherwise referred to Hebrew man, a gift, Arabic mann, favor.
 

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