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מִן־

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hebrewOld TestamentPreposition1,189 occurrences38 books1,057 verses

Definition

or מִנִּי; or מִנֵּי; (constructive plural) (Isaiah 30:11); for H4482; properly, a part of; hence (prepositionally), from or out of in many senses
Traditional renderings: above, after, among, at, because of, by (reason of), from (among), in, × neither, × nor, (out) of, over, since, × then, through, × whether, with.

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders מִן־:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

1,189 total
  1. Judges 11:34מִמֶּ֛נּוּ · besides her
    And when Jephthah returned home to Mizpah, there was his daughter coming out to meet him with tambourines and dancing! She was his only child; he had no son or daughter besides her.
  2. Judges 11:37מִמֶּ֜נִּי
    She also said to her father, “Let me do this one thing: Let me wander for two months through the mountains with my friends and mourn my virginity.”
  3. Judges 12:9מִן־ · from
    He had thirty sons, as well as thirty daughters whom he gave in marriage to men outside his clan; and for his sons he brought back thirty wives from elsewhere. Ibzan judged Israel seven years.
  4. Judges 13:5מִן־ · from
    For behold, you will conceive and give birth to a son. And no razor shall touch his head, because the boy will be a Nazirite to God from the womb, and he will begin the deliverance of Israel from the hand of the Philistines.”
  5. Judges 13:7מִן־ · from
    But he said to me, ‘Behold, you will conceive and give birth to a son. Now, therefore, do not drink wine or strong drink, and do not eat anything unclean, because the boy will be a Nazirite to God from the womb until the day of his death.’”
  6. Judges 15:2מִמֶּ֔נָּה · than she
    “I was sure that you thoroughly hated her,” said her father, “so I gave her to one of the men who accompanied you. Is not her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please take her instead.”
  7. Judges 15:13מִן־ · from
    “No,” they answered, “we will not kill you, but we will tie you up securely and hand you over to them.” So they bound him with two new ropes and led him up from the rock.
  8. Judges 15:19מִמֶּ֤נּוּ · of it
    So God opened up the hollow place in Lehi, and water came out of it. When Samson drank, his strength returned, and he was revived. That is why he named it En-hakkore, and it remains in Lehi to this day.
  9. Judges 16:17מִמֶּ֣נִּי · me
    Samson told her all that was in his heart: “My hair has never been cut, because I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If I am shaved, my strength will leave me, and I will become as weak as any other man.”
  10. Judges 18:26מִמֶּ֔נּוּ · for him
    So the Danites went on their way, and Micah turned to go back home, because he saw that they were too strong for him.
  11. Judges 19:16מִֽן־ · from; מִן־ · in
    That evening an old man from the hill country of Ephraim, who was residing in Gibeah (the men of that place were Benjamites), came in from his work in the field.
  12. Judges 20:14מִן־ · And from
    And from their cities they came together at Gibeah to go out and fight against the Israelites.
  13. Judges 20:21מִן־ · of
    And the Benjamites came out of Gibeah and cut down 22,000 Israelites on the battlefield that day.
  14. Judges 20:25מִֽן־ · from
    That same day the Benjamites came out against them from Gibeah and cut down another 18,000 Israelites, all of them armed with swords.
  15. Judges 20:31מִן־ · from
    The Benjamites came out against them and were drawn away from the city. They began to attack the people as before, killing about thirty men of Israel in the fields and on the roads, one of which led up to Bethel and the other to Gibeah.
  16. Judges 20:32מִן־ · from
    “We are defeating them as before,” said the Benjamites. But the Israelites said, “Let us retreat and draw them away from the city onto the roads.”
  17. Judges 20:38מִן־ · from
    The men of Israel had arranged a signal with the men in ambush: When they sent up a great cloud of smoke from the city,
  18. Judges 20:40מִן־ · from
    But when the column of smoke began to go up from the city, the Benjamites looked behind them and saw the whole city going up in smoke.
  19. Judges 20:45מִמֶּ֖נּוּ
    Then the Benjamites turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, and Israel cut down 5,000 men on the roads. And they overtook them at Gidom and struck down 2,000 more.
  20. Judges 21:1מִמֶּ֔נּוּ · of us
    Now the men of Israel had sworn an oath at Mizpah, saying, “Not one of us will give his daughter in marriage to a Benjamite.”
  21. Judges 21:21מִן־ · from
    …and watch. When you see the daughters of Shiloh come out to perform their dances, each of you is to come out of the vineyards, catch for himself a wife from the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.
  22. Judges 21:23מִן־ · they needed from
    The Benjamites did as instructed and carried away the number of women they needed from the dancers they caught. They went back to their own inheritance, rebuilt their cities, and settled in them.
  23. Ruth 1:7מִן־
    Accompanied by her two daughters-in-law, she left the place where she had been living and set out on the road leading back to the land of Judah.
  24. Ruth 2:14מִן־ · some
    At mealtime Boaz said to her, “Come over here; have some bread and dip it into the vinegar sauce.” So she sat down beside the harvesters, and he offered her roasted grain, and she ate and was satisfied and had some left over.
  25. Ruth 2:16מִן־ · [some stalks] from
    Rather, pull out for her some stalks from the bundles and leave them for her to gather. Do not rebuke her.”
  26. Ruth 3:10מִן־ · than
    Then Boaz said, “May the LORD bless you, my daughter. You have shown more kindness now than before, because you have not run after the younger men, whether rich or poor.
  27. Ruth 3:12מִמֶּֽנִּי׃ · than I
    Yes, it is true that I am a kinsman-redeemer, but there is a redeemer nearer than I.
  28. Ruth 4:12מִן־ · because of; מִן־ · by
    And may your house become like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, because of the offspring the LORD will give you by this young woman.”
  29. 1 Samuel 1:1מִן־ · [who was] from
    Now there was a man named Elkanah who was from Ramathaim-zophim in the hill country of Ephraim. He was the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.
  30. 1 Samuel 2:15מִמְּךָ֛ · from
    Even before the fat was burned, the servant of the priest would come and say to the man who was sacrificing, “Give the priest some meat to roast, because he will not accept boiled meat from you, but only raw.”
  31. 1 Samuel 2:20מִן־ · by
    And Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife, saying, “May the LORD give you children by this woman in place of the one she dedicated to the LORD.” Then they would go home.
  32. 1 Samuel 2:29מִמֶּ֔נִּי · more than Me
    Why then do you kick at My sacrifice and offering that I have prescribed for My dwelling place? You have honored your sons more than Me by fattening yourselves with the best of all the offerings of My people Israel.’
  33. 1 Samuel 3:17מִמֶּ֑נִּי · it from me; מִמֶּ֙נִּי֙ · from me
    “What was the message He gave you?” Eli asked. “Do not hide it from me. May God punish you, and ever so severely, if you hide from me anything He said to you.”
  34. 1 Samuel 3:18מִמֶּ֑נּוּ · [a thing] from him
    So Samuel told him everything and did not hide a thing from him. “He is the LORD,” replied Eli. “Let Him do what is good in His eyes.”
  35. 1 Samuel 4:16מִן־ · from; מִן־ · from
    “I have just come from the battle,” the man said to Eli. “I fled from there today.” “What happened, my son?” Eli asked.
  36. 1 Samuel 7:8מִמֶּ֔נּוּ · for us
    …and said to Samuel, “Do not stop crying out to the LORD our God for us, that He may save us from the hand of the Philistines.”
  37. 1 Samuel 7:11מִן־ · of
    Then the men of Israel charged out of Mizpah and pursued the Philistines, striking them down all the way to an area below Beth-car.
  38. 1 Samuel 9:2מִמֶּ֑נּוּ · among
    And he had a son named Saul, choice and handsome, without equal among the Israelites—a head taller than any of the people.
  39. 1 Samuel 9:5מִן־ · about
    When they reached the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant, “Come, let us go back, or my father will stop worrying about the donkeys and start worrying about us.”
  40. 1 Samuel 11:5מִן־ · from
    Just then Saul was returning from the field, behind his oxen. “What troubles the people?” asked Saul. “Why are they weeping?” And they relayed to him the words of the men from Jabesh.
  41. 1 Samuel 13:15מִן־ · from
    Then Samuel set out from Gilgal and went up to Gibeah in Benjamin. And Saul numbered the troops who were with him, about six hundred men.
  42. 1 Samuel 14:11מִן־ · of
    So the two of them showed themselves to the outpost of the Philistines, who exclaimed, “Look, the Hebrews are coming out of the holes in which they were hiding!”
  43. 1 Samuel 15:28מִמֶּֽךָּ׃ · than you
    So Samuel said to him, “The LORD has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today and has given it to your neighbor who is better than you.
  44. 1 Samuel 17:40מִן־ · from
    And David took his staff in his hand, selected five smooth stones from the brook, and put them in the pouch of his shepherd’s bag. And with his sling in hand, he approached the Philistine.
  45. 1 Samuel 17:50מִן־ · over
    Thus David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and a stone; without a sword in his hand he struck down the Philistine and killed him.
  46. 1 Samuel 20:2מִמֶּ֛נִּי · from me
    “Far from it!” Jonathan replied. “You will not die. Indeed, my father does nothing, great or small, without telling me. So why would he hide this matter from me? This cannot be true!”