John 6:49
New Testament • 5 words with Strong's data
"Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead."
Word-by-Word Analysis
אָב
ʼâb
father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application
אָכַל
ʼâkal
to eat (literally or figuratively)
מָן
mân
literally a whatness (so to speak), i.e. manna (so called from the question about it)
מִדְבָּר
midbâr
a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs)
מוּת
mûwth
to die (literally or figuratively); causatively, to kill
Key Terms in This Verse
מָן mân
literally a whatness (so to speak), i.e. manna (so called from the question about it)
Study H4478 →מִדְבָּר midbâr
a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs)
Study H4057 →אָב ʼâb
father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application
Study H1 →Cross References
I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
For the LORD had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.
Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat.
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