Strong's Lexicon

H4327

H4327 — מִין

Hebrew / Aramaic entry for Bible study and original-language reference.

Hebrewmiynnoun mascOccurrences: 31TWOT: 1191a

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:	H4327
Word:	מִין
Part of Speech:	noun masc
Etymology:	from an unused root meaning to portion out
Language:	Hebrew
Occurrences:	31
Transliteration:	miyn
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:	meen
Meaning:	1. a sort, i.e. species
KJV Renderings:	kind.

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced

BDB4629

[מִין] noun [masculine] kind, species (Late Hebrew id. ( Eccl 43:25 id.), also schismatic, heretic; Jewish-Aramaic מִינָא , species; Palestinian Syriac = nation PS²⁰⁹⁴ Schw^{Idioticon 50}; yet not Aramaic loan-word in Hebrew; see Lag^{BN 183 f.}); — always suffix + preposition לְמִינֵהוּ Gen 1:12 (twice in verse) + 2 t.; לְמִינוֺ Gen 1:11 (omitted by ᵐ5 ) + 3 t.; לְמִינָהּ Gen 1:24 (twice in verse) + 9 t.; לְמִינָהֿ Ezek 47:10 (strike out Co); לְמִינֵהֶם Gen 1:21 — kind, species, of plant Gen 1:11; Gen 1:12 (twice in verse); usually of animal (beast, bird, fish, insect) Gen 1:21; Gen 1:22; 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; Lev 11:15; Lev 11:16; Lev 11:19; Lev 11:22 (4 t. in verse); Lev 11:29 (all P ); also Deut 14:13; Deut 14:14; Deut 14:15; Deut 14:18 (compare Leviticus) Ezek 47:10 (on text, compare Co).

Other Resources

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

מין (meen)

Genesis 1:11

KJV: And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.grass: Heb. tender grass

EHCC: iilog Sa ig be Bed -

Genesis 6:20

KJV: Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.

EHCC: O0f fowls after te kind, and of cattle

Genesis 7:14

KJV: They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.sort: Heb. wing

EHCC: every beast after his kind, and all the cattle

Leviticus 11:14

KJV: And the vulture, and the kite after his kind;

EHCC: the kite after his kind;