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title: מִין — kind · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מִין (4327), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 31 times: kind. BDB 1906: kind, species. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מִין

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«מִין» in the Tanakh dictionary: **kind** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 31 times · **Key:** 4327 · **BDB:** מִין

### Glosses

kind (31)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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).

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מִין» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4327/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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אֵ֥ת כָּל־עֹרֵ֖ב לְמִינֽוֹ׃

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

*JPS 1917:* every raven after its kinds;

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[Deuteronomy 14:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.14.14/)

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וְאֵ֥ת כָּל־עֹרֵ֖ב לְמִינֽוֹ׃

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

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

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