What does Manna mean in the Bible?

First uses (BSB)

1. Exodus 16:31

   Now the house of Israel called the bread manna. It was white like coriander seed and tasted like wafers made with honey.

2. Exodus 16:32

   Moses said, “This is what the LORD has commanded: ‘Keep an omer of manna for the generations to come, so that they may see the bread I fed you in the wilderness when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.’”

3. Exodus 16:33

   So Moses told Aaron, “Take a jar and fill it with an omer of manna. Then place it before the LORD to be preserved for the generations to come.”

4. Exodus 16:35

   The Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a land where they could settle; they ate manna until they reached the border of Canaan.

5. Numbers 11:6

   But now our appetite is gone; there is nothing to see but this manna!”

6. Numbers 11:7

   Now the manna resembled coriander seed, and its appearance was like that of gum resin.

7. Numbers 11:9

   When the dew fell on the camp at night, the manna would fall with it.

8. Deuteronomy 8:3

   He humbled you, and in your hunger He gave you manna to eat, which neither you nor your fathers had known, so that you might understand that man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.

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