What is the meaning of manna from heaven?

noun

  • Old Testament. ( food that God gave the Israelites during the Exodus)
  • A sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money. )
    • usage: "the demand for testing has created a boom for those unregulated laboratories where boxes of specimen jars are processed like an assembly line"
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