מִין
mîyn · H4327 · Hebrew · 31 occurrences
Meanings
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kind, species
A group of items, such as plants or animals, sharing similar characteristics
ExamplesGenesis 1:11 Then God said, “Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit according to their kind with seed in them”; and it was so.
Genesis 1:12 The earth produced vegetation, plants yielding seed according to their kind, and trees bearing fruit with seed in them, according to their kind; and God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:21 And God created the great sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind; and God saw that it was good.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
31 occurrences in 3 groups
- הוּhis 18
- הּher 12
- הֶםtheir 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
31 occurrences in 1 groups
- לto/for 35
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- γένος génos · G1085 · descendant, offspring, race
- Greek γένος (génos, G1085) serves as the standard LXX rendering of Hebrew מִין (mîyn, H4327) in taxonomic/classificatory contexts, both denoting 'kind/species/type' as a category of living things or abstract grouping, with γένος carrying slightly broader semantic range into kinship/lineage senses that מִין does not grammatically encode.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Description002001
- מִין denotes a kind or species, the classifying category by which creation is repeatedly divided in Genesis 1 ("after their kind," Genesis 1:11-12, 21, 24-25) and by which clean and unclean creatures are distinguished in Leviticus 11.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4327. min [מִין] noun [masculine] kind, species (Late Hebrew id. (Ecclus 43:25 id.),…
[מִין] noun [masculine] kind, species (Late Hebrew id. (Ecclus 43:25 id.), also schismatic, heretic; Jewish-Aramaic מִינָא, species; Palestinian Syriac = nation PS2094 SchwIdioticon 50; yet not Aramaic loan-word in Hebrew; see LagBN 183 f.); — always suffix + preposition לְמִינֵהוּ Gen 1:12 (twice in verse) + 2t.; לְמִינוֺ Gen 1:11 (omitted by ᵐ5) + 3 t.; לְמִינָהּ Gen 1:24 (twice in verse) + 9 t.; לְמִינָהֿ Eze 47:10 (strike out Co); לְמִינֵהֶם Gen 1:21; — kind, species, of plant Gen 1:11-12, (twice in verse); usually of animal (beast, bird, fish, insect) Gen 1:21-22, Gen 1:24 (twice in verse); Gen 1:25 (3 t. in verse); Gen 6:20 (3 t. in verse); Gen 7:14 (4 t. in verse); Lev 11:14-15, Lev 11:16, Lev 11:19, Lev 11:22 (4 t. in verse); Lev 11:29 (all P); also Deu 14:13-14, Deu 14:15, Deu 14:18 (compare Leviticus) Eze 47:10 (on text, compare Co).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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