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Manoah

Mentioned in 1119 BC traditional (Jones)

Rest, a Danite, the father of Samson (Judg. 13:1-22, and 14:2-4).

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897).

Child
Samson
Tagged in
14 verses

Computed from the data. Years are traditional (Jones).

Family

Two generations up and the children. Gold lines join partners; grey lines run from parent to child; a dotted line marks a parent named in the text but not by descent.

Places

Places named in the same verses as Manoah, with the number of verses they share; a larger marker means more. Locations follow OpenBible.info, which grades each identification.

  1. likely location: Zorah2
  2. possible location: Eshtaol1

Timeline

The strip runs from Creation to AD 100; the shaded part, 1144–1094 BC, is drawn below at a larger scale around these mentions, with 1 contemporary. Years are traditional (Jones), shown as recorded, not as settled fact.

Mentions

14 tagged verses in 1 book. Select a book to read its verses.

  1. Judges14

The name in each translation

TextOccurrences of each name
BSBManoah 16
KJVManoah 18
ASVManoah 18

Whole-word, case-sensitive count of the name string (regex \bName\b, so possessives like "Abraham's" count) across the whole Bible text of each translation; this counts the string, not the person, so other people who share the name are included and pronoun references are not. How Begat counts

Every verse

All 14 tagged verses, by book, in canonical order. The Berean Standard Bible is shown; switch to the King James or American Standard Version.

Judges14 verses
  1. 13:2

    Now there was a man from Zorah named Manoah, from the clan of the Danites, whose wife was barren and had no children.

  2. 13:8

    Then Manoah prayed to the LORD, “Please, O Lord, let the man of God You sent us come to us again to teach us how to raise the boy who is to be born.”

  3. 13:9

    And God listened to the voice of Manoah, and the angel of God returned to the woman as she was sitting in the field; but her husband Manoah was not with her.

  4. 13:11

    So Manoah got up and followed his wife. When he came to the man, he asked, “Are you the man who spoke to my wife?” “I am,” he said.

  5. 13:12

    Then Manoah asked, “When your words come to pass, what will be the boy’s rule of life and mission?”

  6. 13:13

    So the angel of the LORD answered Manoah, “Your wife is to do everything I told her.

  7. 13:15

    “Please stay here,” Manoah said to the angel of the LORD, “and we will prepare a young goat for you.”

  8. 13:16

    And the angel of the LORD replied, “Even if I stay, I will not eat your food. But if you prepare a burnt offering, offer it to the LORD.” For Manoah did not know that it was the angel of the LORD.

  9. 13:17

    Then Manoah said to the angel of the LORD, “What is your name, so that we may honor you when your word comes to pass?”

  10. 13:19

    Then Manoah took a young goat and a grain offering and offered them on a rock to the LORD. And as Manoah and his wife looked on, the LORD did a marvelous thing.

  11. 13:20

    When the flame went up from the altar to the sky, the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame. When Manoah and his wife saw this, they fell facedown to the ground.

  12. 13:21

    And when the angel of the LORD did not appear again to Manoah and his wife, Manoah realized that it had been the angel of the LORD.

  13. 13:22

    “We are going to die,” he said to his wife, “for we have seen God!”

  14. 16:31

    Then Samson’s brothers and his father’s family came down, carried him back, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of his father Manoah. And he had judged Israel twenty years.

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

The full entry, public domain, as printed in 1897.

Rest, a Danite, the father of Samson (Judg. 13:1-22, and 14:2-4).