manna from heaven

Questions about manna from heaven

What does manna from heaven mean?

manna from heaven means "(Old Testament) food that God gave the Israelites during the Exodus". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for manna from heaven?

Close synonyms include miraculous food, manna, boom, bonanza, gold rush. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is manna from heaven a common word?

manna from heaven is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.