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Lexicon :: Strong's H4310 - mî

Strong's

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מִי

Transliteration

mî

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Part of Speech

interrogative pronoun

Root Word (Etymology)

An interrogative pronoun of persons, as מָה (H4100) is of things, who? (occasionally, by a peculiar idiom, of things

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TWOT Reference: 1189

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Strong’s Definitions

מִי mîy, me; an interrogative pronoun of persons, as H4100 is of things, who? (occasionally, by a peculiar idiom, of things); also (indefinitely) whoever; often used in oblique construction with prefix or suffix:—any (man), × he, × him, O that! what, which, who(-m, -se, -soever), would to God.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 12x

The KJV translates Strong's H4310 in the following manner: who, any, whose, what, if any, whom.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 12x

The KJV translates Strong's H4310 in the following manner: who, any, whose, what, if any, whom.

Outline of Biblical Usage [?]

who?, whose?, whom?, would that, whoever, whosoever

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)

Brown-Driver-Briggs Lexicon [?] (Jump to Scripture Index)

STRONGS H4310: Abbreviations

מִי ₄₂₃ pronoun interrogative who? of persons, as מָה (which see) of things (Ethiopic bdb056601

but only = What ? and How ? Assyrian mî, me (rare) Jäger^{BAS. ii. 277}, the usual Semitic form for Who? has n, namely Assyrian mannu, manu (Dl^{HWB 419}), Ethiopic bdb056602

manū, Aramaic bdb056603

Arabic

, Vulgar Arabic min, mīn, from a form resembling which, by rejection of n, probably Hebrew מִי : W^{SG 123 f.}): — who ? (τίς; quis ?) Genesis 3:11 הִגִּיד לְךָ מִי who told thee ? Genesis 24:65 מִי הָאִישׁ הַלָּזֶה who is this man ? Genesis 27:18 מי אתה בני who art thou, my son ? Numbers 22:9; Judges 1:1; Judges 6:29; Judges 15:6; Judges 18:3; Judges 20:18; 2 Samuel 1:8 + often; Ruth 3:9 מִי אָ֑תְּ who art thou, (feminine) ? Isaiah 51:12; of more than one, מִי אֵלָּה who are these ? Genesis 33:5; Genesis 48:8; Isaiah 60:8; מי אתם 2 Kings 10:13; once, more explicitly, מִי זָמִי הַהֹלְכִים Exodus 10:8; = as who ? (i.e. in what condition, or capacity), Amos 7:2 יעקב מי יקום vAmos 7:5; Isaiah 51:19 מִי אֲנַחֲמֵךְ (but Vrss Che Lag Brd Du מִי יְ׳, as || מִי יָנוּד), Ruth 3:16 (Be Ke Kö^{iii. 388}). Note in particular:

a. מִי is rarely used of things, and usually where persons are understood or implied: Genesis 33:8 מי לך כלהֿמחנה הזה who (or what) to thee is all this camp ? Deuteronomy 4:7; Judges 9:28 שְׁכֶם מִי who is Shechem (i.e. the Shechemites) ? Micah 1:5 מִיפֶֿשַׁע יַעֲקֹב הֲלֹא שֹׁמְרוֺן, Micah 1:5b, Songs 3:6; Judges 13:17 מִי שְׁמֶ֑ךָ (but מה Genesis 32:28; Exodus 3:13: with מי compare מַן in Aramaic Ezra 5:4; Genesis, Exodus ll. cc. Targum

; and see Nö^{M. p. 341}). On 1 Samuel 18:18, see II. חַי

b. in the genitive, בַּתמִֿי אַתְּ whose daughter art thou ? Genesis 24:23, 47; 1 Samuel 12:3 (3 times in verse); 1 Samuel 17:55; Jeremiah 44:28; Job 26:4; Job 33:28; after various prepositions, as אַחֲרֵי מִי 1 Samuel 24:15 (twice in verse); אֶלמִֿי 1 Samuel 6:20; 2 Kings 9:5 +; בְּמִי by whom ? † 1 Kings 20:14, לְמִי ₂₀ to whom ? whose ? Genesis 32:18 לְמִי אַתָּה, Genesis 38:25; Proverbs 20:20 (6 times) +; מִמִּי Ezekiel 32:19; Psalm 27:1 (twice in verse); עַלמִֿי 2 Kings 18:20; 2 Kings 19:22; Isaiah 57:4 +; אֶתמִֿי (so always in accusative), 1 Samuel 12:3 (twice in verse); 1 Samuel 28:11; Isaiah 6:8; = with whom ? Job 12:3.

c. in an indirect question, as Genesis 21:26; Genesis 43:22 לא ידענו מי שׂם we do not know who put, etc., Deuteronomy 21:1; Psalm 39:7; Joshua 24:15 בַּחֲרוּ ֗֗֗ אֶתמִֿי תַעֲבֹד֑וּן choose whom ye will serve, after ראה 1 Samuel 14:17, שׁאל 1 Samuel 17:56, הגיד 1 Kings 1:20, הודיע 1 Kings 1:27.

d. מי ב׳ who among...? 1 Samuel 22:14; Isaiah 36:20; Isaiah 43:9; Isaiah 48:14 (בהם) Isaiah 42:23; Isaiah 50:10; Haggai 2:3 (all בכם); מי מן who of... ? Judges 21:8; 2 Kings 6:11; Isaiah 50:1.

e. strengthened and emphatic forms of interrogative:

(a) מי זה (see זה 4b), מי הוא (see הוא 4b β), הוא זה מי Psalm 24:10; Jeremiah 30:21; Esther 7:5 (see ibid.);

(b) אֶחָד מִי what single one... ? Judges 21:8, compare 2 Samuel 7:23 (= 1 Chronicles 17:21).

f. various rhetorical uses (often repeated in || clause, as Psalm 15:1; Psalm 18:32; Isaiah 28:9; Isaiah 29:15): —

(a) followed by imperfect it expresses a wish (the question implying a desire that the person asked for were present), 2 Samuel 15:4 מִי יְשִׂמֵנִי שֹׁפֵט who will set me judge ? i.e. would that some one would make me judge ! 2 Samuel 23:15 מִי יַשְׁקֵנִי מַיִם = O that one would give me to drink, etc. ! compare Numbers 11:4, 18; Malachi 1:10; Psalm 4:7; Psalm 60:11; Psalm 94:16; Isaiah 42:23, and very often in the phrase מִי יִתֵּן who will give? i.e. would that there were... ! as Numbers 11:29 נביאים ומי יתן כל עם י׳ = and would that all י׳'s people were prophets! Deuteronomy 28:67 מי יתן ערב = would it were even! Judges 9:29 + (see נָתַן).

(b) it expresses contempt (who ? implying the answer no one at all), Exodus 5:2 אשׁר אשׁמע בקולו מי י׳ who is י׳ that I should listen to his voice ? Judges 9:28 מִי אֲבִימֶלֶךְ וּמִי שְׁכֶם כִּי נַעַבְדֶנּוּ, Judges 9:38; 1 Samuel 17:26 who is this Philistine that he should have reproached, etc.? 1 Samuel 25:10 מי דוד ומי בן ישׁי Isaiah 28:9; Job 26:4; Proverbs 30:9 מי י׳; or modesty (real or assumed), Exodus 3:11 אֶל־פַּרְעֹה אֵלֵךְ כִּי אָנֹכִי מִי 1 Samuel 18:18 ומי חיי מי אנכי who am I, and who is my clan (חַיִּי), that I should be the king's son-in-law ? 2 Samuel 7:18; 1 Chronicles 29:14; 2 Chronicles 2:5; or surprise, Isaiah 44:10; Isaiah 49:21.

(c) in impassioned prose, and especially in poetry, implying the answer few or none, it is equivalent to a rhetorical negative, Deuteronomy 9:2 מִי יִתְיַצֵּב לִפְנֵי בְנֵי עֲנָק who can stand, etc.? Deuteronomy 30:12 מִי יַעֲלֶהלָּֿנוּ הַשָּׁמַיְמָה Deuteronomy 30:13; 1 Samuel 4:8 מִי יַצִּילֵנוּ וג׳, 1 Samuel 6:20; 1 Samuel 22:14; 1 Samuel 26:9, 15; 2 Samuel 16:10; מי יאמר who shall (or can) say ? Job 9:12; Proverbs 20:9; Ecclesiastes 8:4; with the perfect (of experience), who has ever... ? Numbers 23:10; Deuteronomy 5:23; Isaiah 36:20; Isaiah 66:8 (twice in verse); Jeremiah 18:13 מִי שָׁמַע כָּאֵלֶּה, Jeremiah 23:18 (MT), Jeremiah 30:21; Job 4:7; Job 9:4 מִי הִקְשָׁה אֵלָיו וַיִּשְׁלָ֑ם, Job 41:3; Proverbs 30:4; Lamentations 3:37; in poetry, very often, as Genesis 49:9 מִי יְקִימֶנּוּ וּכְלָבִיא who can rouse him up ? (i.e. no one), Exodus 15:11 (twice in verse) מִי כָמוֺךָ (so Psalm 35:10 and elsewhere), Numbers 24:9, 23; 1 Samuel 2:25 מי יתפלל לו who shall intercede for him ? (i.e. no one), Isaiah 1:12; Isaiah 10:3; Isaiah 40:13, 14, 18; Isaiah 41:26; Isaiah 42:19; Isaiah 43:9; Isaiah 48:14; Isaiah 50:1; Isaiah 53:1 מִי הֶאֱמִין לִשְׁמֻעָתֵנוּ (i.e. few or none), etc.; Psalm 18:32 מִי אֱלוֺהַּ מִבַּלְעֲדֵי י׳, Psalm 76:8; Psalm 89:7; Psalm 130:3; Job 21:31; Job 34:29; Jeremiah 17:9; Joel 2:11; Malachi 3:2; מִי לֹא ֗֗֗ Amos 3:8; Jeremiah 10:7; Job 12:9 (compare Job 25:3; Nahum 3:19); (יְשִׁיבֶנָּה) מִי יְשִׁיבֶנּוּ who shall (can) turn it back ? † Job 9:12; Job 11:10; Job 23:13; Isaiah 14:27; Isaiah 43:13; Jeremiah 2:24; implying the answer, no one but God, Isaiah 40:12; Isaiah 41:2; Job 38:5; Job 35:6; Job 35:25, etc.; defiantly, Isaiah 50:9 מִי הוּא יַרְשִׁיעֵנִי, Jeremiah 21:13; Jeremiah 49:4 מִי יָבוֺא אֵלַי, Jeremiah 49:19; Obadiah 3; Psalm 12:5 מִי אָדוֺן לָנוּ, Psalm 59:8; Psalm 64:6; Job 9:19 לְמִשְׁפָּט וְאִם יוֺעִידֵנִי מִי, Job 13:19 מִי הוּא יָרִיב עִמָּדִי who is he that will contend with me ? Job 17:3; Job 41:2. Notice in examples of this kind the frequent order of words: Proverbs 20:6 ואישׁ אמוּנים מי ימצא, Proverbs 24:22 יודע ופיד שׁניהם מי, Proverbs 31:10; Nahum 1:6 לפני זעמו מי יעמד, Psalm 147:17 קֹרָתוֺ מי יעמד לפני, Job 4:2 וַעְצֹר בְּמִלִּין מִי יוּכ֑ל, Job 26:14; Job 38:37; Job 39:5; Job 41:5; Job 41:6; Psalm 6:6 בִּשְׁאוֺל מִי יוֺדֶהלָּֿ֑ךְ, Psalm 19:13; and with the nom. pendens, Jeremiah 2:24 תַּאֲנָתָהּ מִי יְשִׁיבֶנָּה, Proverbs 18:14; Job 17:15 וְתִקְוָתִי מִי יְשׁוּרֶנָּה, Job 38:29 וּכְפֹר שָׁמַיִם מִי יְלָדוֺ.

(d) מִי יוֺדֵעַ who knoweth ? (Psalm 90:11; Proverbs 24:22), followed by a verbal clause, becomes (compare nescio an) = it may be, perchance, † 2 Samuel 12:22 מִי יוֺדֵעַ יְחָנֵּנִי י׳ (Qr וְחַנַּנִי), Joel 2:14 (= Jonah 3:9) מי יודע ישׁוב ונחם, Esther 4:14 יודע אם מי.

(e) especially in poetry, a question with מי, to which the answer follows, is an effective mode of affirming a fact, or introducing a description: Psalm 15:1 (twice in verse) (see Psalm 15:2); Psalm 24:3; Psalm 24:8; Psalm 24:10; Isaiah 23:8 מי יעץ זאת וג׳ (Isaiah 23:9 the answer, יְעָצָהּ צ׳ י׳), Isaiah 33:14 (see Isaiah 33:15f.), Isaiah 37:23; Isaiah 41:2, 4; Isaiah 60:8; Isaiah 63:1; Jeremiah 46:7; Songs 3:6, compare Songs 6:10; Songs 8:3; answered by הֲלֹא Exodus 4:11; Isaiah 42:24; Isaiah 45:21; Micah 1:5 (twice in verse).

g. מִי may sometimes be rendered whosoever, though, as the examples will shew, it does not really mean it: Exodus 24:14 מי בעל דברים יִגַּשׁ אליהם, literally Who hath a cause ? let him draw nigh unto them, i.e. whoso hath a cause, let him, etc., Isaiah 50:8b אֵלַי יִגַּשׁ מִשְׁפָּטִי בַעַל מִי, Isaiah 54:15; Judges 7:3 מִי יָרֵא וְחָרֵד יָשֹׁב וג׳ who is fearful and trembling ? let him return, Proverbs 9:4, 16 מִיפֶֿ֖תִי יָסֻר הֵגָּה, Ezra 1:3 (compare with וְ in apodosis Jeremiah 9:11; Hosea 14:10; Psalm 107:43; Zechariah 4:10 is dubious, on account of anomalous tense and construction); so with מי האישׁ אשׁר ֗֗֗ Deuteronomy 20:5, 6, 7; Judges 10:18, compare Psalm 25:12. With 1person in apodosis, Exodus 32:33 חָטָא לִי אֶמְחֶגּוּ מִסִּפְרִי מִי אֲשֶׁר, Jeremiah 49:19 (= Jeremiah 50:44) אֵלָיהָ אֶפְקֹד וּמִי בָחוּר and who is chosen? I will appoint him over her! Isaiah 50:8a; with an imperative in the apodosis Exodus 32:24 (against accents; see Ra) התפרקו למי זהב who hath gold ? break it off you! Genesis 19:12; 1 Samuel 11:12, compare Psalm 34:13f.; without a verb, Exodus 32:26 אלי מי לי׳ who is on J.'s side ? (let him come) to me! so 2 Samuel 20:11 (מי אשׁר); Ecclesiastes 5:9; Ecclesiastes 9:4 (מי אשׁר).

h. once, following a verb (compare מָה 3), any one, 2 Samuel 18:12 שִׁמְרוּמִֿי בַּנַּעַר באבשׁלום Have a care, whosoever ye be, of, etc. (but Greek Version of the LXX

Bu לִי; compare 2 Samuel 18:5).

See related Aramaic BDB entry H4479.

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Genesis

3:11; 19:12; 21:26; 24:23; 24:47; 24:65; 27:18; 32:18; 32:28; 33:5; 33:8; 38:25; 43:22; 48:8; 49:9

Exodus

3:11; 3:13; 4:11; 5:2; 10:8; 15:11; 24:14; 32:24; 32:26; 32:33

Numbers

11:4; 11:18; 11:29; 22:9; 23:10; 24:9; 24:23

Deuteronomy

4:7; 5:23; 9:2; 20:5; 20:6; 20:7; 21:1; 28:67; 30:12; 30:13

Joshua

24:15

Judges

1:1; 6:29; 7:3; 9:28; 9:28; 9:29; 9:38; 10:18; 13:17; 15:6; 18:3; 20:18; 21:8; 21:8

Ruth

3:9; 3:16

1 Samuel

2:25; 4:8; 6:20; 6:20; 11:12; 12:3; 12:3; 14:17; 17:26; 17:55; 17:56; 18:18; 18:18; 22:14; 22:14; 24:15; 25:10; 26:9; 26:15; 28:11

2 Samuel

1:8; 7:18; 7:23; 12:22; 15:4; 16:10; 18:5; 18:12; 20:11; 23:15

1 Kings

1:20; 1:27; 20:14

2 Kings

6:11; 9:5; 10:13; 18:20; 19:22

1 Chronicles

17:21; 29:14

2 Chronicles

2:5

Ezra

1:3; 5:4

Esther

4:14; 7:5

Job

4:2; 4:7; 9:4; 9:12; 9:12; 9:19; 11:10; 12:3; 12:9; 13:19; 17:3; 17:15; 21:31; 23:13; 25:3; 26:4; 26:4; 26:14; 33:28; 34:29; 35:6; 38:5; 38:29; 38:37; 39:5; 41:2; 41:3; 41:5; 41:6

Psalms

4:7; 6:6; 12:5; 15:1; 15:1; 15:2; 18:32; 18:32; 19:13; 24:3; 24:8; 24:10; 24:10; 25:12; 27:1; 34:13; 35:10; 39:7; 59:8; 60:11; 64:6; 76:8; 89:7; 90:11; 94:16; 107:43; 130:3; 147:17

Proverbs

9:4; 9:16; 18:14; 20:6; 20:9; 20:20; 24:22; 24:22; 30:4; 30:9; 31:10

Ecclesiastes

5:9; 8:4; 9:4

Song of Songs

3:6; 3:6; 6:10; 8:3

Isaiah

1:12; 6:8; 10:3; 14:27; 23:8; 23:9; 28:9; 28:9; 29:15; 33:14; 33:15; 36:20; 36:20; 37:23; 40:12; 40:13; 40:14; 40:18; 41:2; 41:2; 41:4; 41:26; 42:19; 42:23; 42:23; 42:24; 43:9; 43:9; 43:13; 44:10; 45:21; 48:14; 48:14; 49:21; 50:1; 50:1; 50:8; 50:8; 50:9; 50:10; 51:12; 51:19; 53:1; 54:15; 57:4; 60:8; 60:8; 63:1; 66:8

Jeremiah

2:24; 2:24; 9:11; 10:7; 17:9; 18:13; 21:13; 23:18; 30:21; 30:21; 44:28; 46:7; 49:4; 49:19; 49:19; 50:44

Lamentations

3:37

Ezekiel

32:19

Joel

2:11; 2:14

Amos

3:8; 7:2

Obadiah

1:3

Jonah

3:9

Micah

1:5; 1:5; 1:5

Nahum

1:6; 3:19

Haggai

2:3

Zechariah

4:10

Malachi

1:10; 3:2

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