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Psalm 78

Psa. 78:24 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And had rained down
matar (Hebrew #4305)
to rain
KJV usage: (cause to) rain (upon).
Pronounce: maw-tar'
Origin: a primitive root
manna
man (Hebrew #4478)
literally, a whatness (so to speak), i.e. manna (so called from the question about it)
KJV usage: manna.
Pronounce: mawn
Origin: from 4100
upon them to eat
'akal (Hebrew #398)
to eat (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: X at all, burn up, consume, devour(-er, up), dine, eat(-er, up), feed (with), food, X freely, X in...wise(-deed, plenty), (lay) meat, X quite.
Pronounce: aw-kal'
Origin: a primitive root
, and had given
nathan (Hebrew #5414)
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
KJV usage: add, apply, appoint, ascribe, assign, X avenge, X be ((healed)), bestow, bring (forth, hither), cast, cause, charge, come, commit, consider, count, + cry, deliver (up), direct, distribute, do, X doubtless, X without fail, fasten, frame, X get, give (forth, over, up), grant, hang (up), X have, X indeed, lay (unto charge, up), (give) leave, lend, let (out), + lie, lift up, make, + O that, occupy, offer, ordain, pay, perform, place, pour, print, X pull , put (forth), recompense, render, requite, restore, send (out), set (forth), shew, shoot forth (up), + sing, + slander, strike, (sub-)mit, suffer, X surely, X take, thrust, trade, turn, utter, + weep, + willingly, + withdraw, + would (to) God, yield.
Pronounce: naw-than'
Origin: a primitive root
them of the corn
dagan (Hebrew #1715)
properly, increase, i.e. grain
KJV usage: corn ((floor)), wheat.
Pronounce: daw-gawn'
Origin: from 1711
of heaven
shamayim (Hebrew #8064)
from an unused root meaning to be lofty; the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies revolve)
KJV usage: air, X astrologer, heaven(-s).
Pronounce: shaw-mah'-yim
Origin: dual of an unused singular shameh {shaw-meh'}
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Cross References

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had rained.
Psa. 68:9• 9Thou, O God, didst pour a plentiful rain upon thine inheritance, and when it was weary thou strengthenedst it. (Psa. 68:9)
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Psa. 105:40• 40They asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of heaven. (Psa. 105:40)
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Ex. 16:4,14• 4Then said Jehovah to Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather the daily need on its day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or not.
 14And when the dew that lay round it was gone up, behold, on the face of the wilderness there was something fine, granular, fine as hoar-frost, on the ground. (Ex. 16:4,14)
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Deut. 8:3• 3And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with the manna, which thou hadst not known, and which thy fathers knew not; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread alone, but by everything that goeth out of the mouth of Jehovah doth man live. (Deut. 8:3)
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Neh. 9:15,20• 15And thou gavest them bread from the heavens for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and didst say to them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them.
 20Thou gavest also thy good Spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst. (Neh. 9:15,20)
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John 6:31‑71• 31Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, as it is written, He gave them bread out of heaven to eat.
 32Jesus therefore said to them, Verily, verily, I say to you, It is not Moses that has given you the bread out of heaven; but my Father gives you the true bread out of heaven.
 33For the bread of God is he who comes down out of heaven and gives life to the world.
 34They said therefore to him, Lord, ever give to us this bread.
 35And Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life: he that comes to me shall never hunger, and he that believes on me shall never thirst at any time.
 36But I have said to you, that ye have also seen me and do not believe.
 37All that the Father gives me shall come to me, and him that comes to me I will not at all cast out.
 38For I am come down from heaven, not that I should do *my* will, but the will of him that has sent me.
 39And this is the will of him that has sent me, that of all that he has given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up in the last day.
 40For this is the will of my Father, that every one who sees the Son, and believes on him, should have life eternal; and I will raise him up at the last day.
 41The Jews therefore murmured about him, because he said, I am the bread which has come down out of heaven.
 42And they said, Is not this Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we have known? how then does *he* say, I am come down out of heaven?
 43Jesus therefore answered and said to them, Murmur not among yourselves.
 44No one can come to me except the Father who has sent me draw him, and I will raise him up in the last day.
 45It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every one that has heard from the Father himself, and has learned of him, comes to me;
 46not that any one has seen the Father, except he who is of God, he has seen the Father.
 47Verily, verily, I say to you, He that believes on me has life eternal.
 48I am the bread of life.
 49Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness and died.
 50This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that one may eat of it and not die.
 51I am the living bread which has come down out of heaven: if any one shall have eaten of this bread he shall live for ever; but the bread withal which I shall give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
 52The Jews therefore contended among themselves, saying, How can he give us this flesh to eat?
 53Jesus therefore said to them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Unless ye shall have eaten the flesh of the Son of man, and drunk his blood, ye have no life in yourselves.
 54He that eats my flesh and drinks my blood has life eternal, and I will raise him up at the last day:
 55for my flesh is truly food and my blood is truly drink.
 56He that eats my flesh and drinks my blood dwells in me and I in him.
 57As the living Father has sent me and I live on account of the Father, *he* also who eats me shall live also on account of me.
 58This is the bread which has come down out of heaven. Not as the fathers ate and died: he that eats this bread shall live for ever.
 59These things he said in the synagogue, teaching in Capernaum.
 60Many therefore of his disciples having heard it said, This word is hard; who can hear it?
 61But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples murmur concerning this, said to them, Does this offend you?
 62If then ye see the Son of man ascending up where he was before?
 63It is the Spirit which quickens, the flesh profits nothing: the words which I have spoken unto you are spirit and are life.
 64But there are some of you who do not believe. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe, and who would deliver him up.
 65And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no one can come to me unless it be given to him from the Father.
 66From that time many of his disciples went away back and walked no more with him.
 67Jesus therefore said to the twelve, Will ye also go away?
 68Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast words of life eternal;
 69and we have believed and known that thou art the holy one of God.
 70Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you the twelve? and of you one is a devil.
 71Now he spoke of Judas the son of Simon, Iscariote, for he it was who should deliver him up, being one of the twelve. (John 6:31‑71)
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1 Cor. 10:3• 3and all ate the same spiritual food, (1 Cor. 10:3)
the corn of heaven.The manna fell about their camp in the form of seeds; and as it appeared to come down from the clouds, it was not improperly termed {degan shamayim,} the corn of heaven or heavenly grain.
See notes on Ex 16:22, 31.

J. N. Darby Translation

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And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them the corn of the heavens.