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# מִין

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4327

**kind** — used 31 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

kind [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4327/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִין: kind, species [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4327/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] kind, species (NH id. (Ecclus 43:25 id.), also schismatic, heretic; Jewish-Aramaic מִינָא, species, so Syriac (Edessa) ܡܺܝܢܳܐ; del. ‘so Syriac (Edessa) ܡܺܝܢܳܐ,’ ref. due to early textual error (GFM, privately, Dec. 28, 1899). Palest. Syriac = nation PS2094 SchwallyIdioticon 50; yet not Aramaic loan-wd. in Heb.; v. LagBN 183 f.);—always sf. + prep. לְמִינֵהוּ Gn 1:12(×2) + 2 times; לְמִינוֹ Gn 1:11 (om. 𝔊) + 3 times; לְמִינָהּ Gn 1:24(×2) + 9 times; לְמִינָהֿ Ez 47:10 (del. Co); לְמִינֵהֶם Gn 1:21;—kind, species, of plant Gn 1:11, 12(×2); usually of animal (beast, bird, fish, insect) Gn 1:21(×2), 24(×2), 25(×3); 6:20(×3); 7:14(×4); Lv 11:14, 15, 16, 19, 22(×4), 29 (all P); also Dt 14:13, 14, 15, 18 (cf. Lv) Ez 47:10 (on text, cf. Co).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 18 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (13 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (9 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: kind (31).

## In the verses

[Leviticus 11:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.11.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.11.15/#tree)

אֵ֥ת כָּל־עֹרֵ֖ב לְמִינֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* (et) every raven to kind its

*JPS 1917:* every raven after its kinds;

[Deuteronomy 14:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.14.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.14.14/#tree)

וְאֵ֥ת כָּל־עֹרֵ֖ב לְמִינֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and (et) every raven to kind its

*JPS 1917:* and every raven after its kinds;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4327.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4327/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).