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מִי

miwho?How to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentQuestion word425 occurrences35 books344 verses

Definition

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
Traditional renderings: any (man), × he, × him, O that! what, which, who(-m, -se, -soever), would to God.

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders מִי:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

425 total
  1. Genesis 3:11מִ֚י · Who
    “Who told you that you were naked?” asked the LORD God. “Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?”
  2. Genesis 19:12מִֽי־ · Do
    Then the two men said to Lot, “Do you have anyone else here—a son-in-law, your sons or daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? Get them out of here,
  3. Genesis 21:7מִ֤י · Who
    She added, “Who would have told Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.”
  4. Genesis 21:26מִ֥י · who
    Abimelech replied, “I do not know who has done this. You did not tell me, so I have not heard about it until today.”
  5. Genesis 24:23מִ֣י · Whose
    “Whose daughter are you?” he asked. “Please tell me, is there room in your father’s house for us to spend the night?”
  6. Genesis 24:47מִ֣י · Whose
    Then I asked her, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ She replied, ‘The daughter of Bethuel son of Nahor, whom Milcah bore to him.’ So I put the ring on her nose and the bracelets on her wrists.
  7. Genesis 24:65מִֽי־ · Who
    …and asked the servant, “Who is that man in the field coming to meet us?” “It is my master,” the servant answered. So she took her veil and covered herself.
  8. Genesis 27:18מִ֥י · Which one
    So Jacob went to his father and said, “My father.” “Here I am!” he answered. “Which one are you, my son?”
  9. Genesis 27:32מִי־ · Who
    But his father Isaac replied, “Who are you?” “I am Esau, your firstborn son,” he answered.
  10. Genesis 27:33מִֽי־ · Who
    Isaac began to tremble violently and said, “Who was it, then, who hunted the game and brought it to me? Before you came in, I ate it all and blessed him—and indeed, he will be blessed!”
  11. Genesis 32:17לְמִי־ · To whom; וּלְמִ֖י · and whose
    He instructed the one in the lead, “When my brother Esau meets you and asks, ‘To whom do you belong, where are you going, and whose animals are these before you?’
  12. Genesis 33:5מִי־ · Who
    When Esau looked up and saw the women and children, he asked, “Who are these with you?” Jacob answered, “These are the children God has graciously given your servant.”
  13. Genesis 33:8מִ֥י · What
    “What do you mean by sending this whole company to meet me?” asked Esau. “To find favor in your sight, my lord,” Jacob answered.
  14. Genesis 38:25לְמִ֞י · Whose
    As she was being brought out, Tamar sent a message to her father-in-law: “I am pregnant by the man to whom these items belong.” And she added, “Please examine them. Whose seal and cord and staff are these?”
  15. Genesis 43:22מִי־ · who
    We have brought additional silver with us to buy food. We do not know who put our silver in our sacks.”
  16. Genesis 48:8מִי־ · Who
    When Israel saw the sons of Joseph, he asked, “Who are these?”
  17. Genesis 49:9מִ֥י · who
    Judah is a young lion—my son, you return from the prey. Like a lion he crouches and lies down; like a lioness, who dares to rouse him?
  18. Exodus 2:14מִ֣י · Who
    But the man replied, “Who made you ruler and judge over us? Are you planning to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid and thought, “This thing I have done has surely become known.”
  19. Exodus 3:11מִ֣י · Who
    But Moses asked God, “Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”
  20. Exodus 4:11מִ֣י · Who; מִֽי־ · who
    And the LORD said to him, “Who gave man his mouth? Or who makes the mute or the deaf, the sighted or the blind? Is it not I, the LORD?
  21. Exodus 5:2מִ֤י · Who
    But Pharaoh replied, “Who is the LORD that I should obey His voice and let Israel go? I do not know the LORD, and I will not let Israel go.”
  22. Exodus 10:8מִ֥י · But who exactly; וָמִ֖י
    So Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh. “Go, worship the LORD your God,” he said. “But who exactly will be going?”
  23. Exodus 15:11מִֽי־ · Who; מִ֥י · Who
    Who among the gods is like You, O LORD? Who is like You—majestic in holiness, revered with praises, performing wonders?
  24. Exodus 16:3מִֽי־ · If only
    “If only we had died by the LORD’s hand in the land of Egypt!” they said. “There we sat by pots of meat and ate our fill of bread, but you have brought us into this desert to starve this whole assembly to death!”
  25. Exodus 24:14מִי־ · Whoever
    And he said to the elders, “Wait here for us until we return to you. Aaron and Hur are here with you. Whoever has a dispute can go to them.”
  26. Exodus 32:24לְמִ֣י · Whoever
    So I said to them, ‘Whoever has gold, let him take it off,’ and they gave it to me. And when I threw it into the fire, out came this calf!”
  27. Exodus 32:26מִ֥י · Whoever
    So Moses stood at the entrance to the camp and said, “Whoever is for the LORD, come to me.” And all the Levites gathered around him.
  28. Exodus 32:33מִ֚י · Whoever
    The LORD replied to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against Me, I will blot out of My book.
  29. Numbers 11:4מִ֥י · Who
    Meanwhile, the rabble among them had a strong craving for other food, and again the Israelites wept and said, “Who will feed us meat?
  30. Numbers 11:18מִ֤י · Who
    And say to the people: Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, and you will eat meat, because you have cried out in the hearing of the LORD, saying: ‘Who will feed us meat? For we were better off in Egypt!’ Therefore the LORD will give you meat, and you will eat.
  31. Numbers 11:29וּמִ֨י · account
    But Moses replied, “Are you jealous on my account? I wish that all the LORD’s people were prophets and that the LORD would place His Spirit on them!”
  32. Numbers 22:9מִ֛י · Who
    Then God came to Balaam and asked, “Who are these men with you?”
  33. Numbers 23:10מִ֤י · Who
    Who can count the dust of Jacob or number even a fourth of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous; let my end be like theirs!”
  34. Numbers 24:9מִ֣י · who
    He crouches, he lies down like a lion, like a lioness—who dares to rouse him? Blessed are those who bless you and cursed are those who curse you.”
  35. Numbers 24:23מִ֥י · who
    Once more Balaam lifted up an oracle, saying: “Ah, who can live unless God has ordained it?
  36. Deuteronomy 3:24מִי־ · what
    “O Lord GOD, You have begun to show Your greatness and power to Your servant. For what god in heaven or on earth can perform such works and mighty acts as Yours?
  37. Deuteronomy 4:7מִי־ · what
    For what nation is great enough to have a god as near to them as the LORD our God is to us whenever we call on Him?
  38. Deuteronomy 4:8וּמִי֙ · And what
    And what nation is great enough to have righteous statutes and ordinances like this entire law I set before you today?
  39. Deuteronomy 5:26מִ֣י · who
    For who of all flesh has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the fire, as we have, and survived?
  40. Deuteronomy 5:29מִֽי־ · If only
    If only they had such a heart to fear Me and keep all My commandments always, so that it might be well with them and with their children forever.
  41. Deuteronomy 9:2מִ֣י · Who
    The people are strong and tall, the descendants of the Anakim. You know about them, and you have heard it said, “Who can stand up to the sons of Anak?”
  42. Deuteronomy 20:5מִֽי־ · Has any
    Furthermore, the officers are to address the army, saying, “Has any man built a new house and not dedicated it? Let him return home, or he may die in battle and another man dedicate it.
  43. Deuteronomy 20:6וּמִֽי־ · Has any
    Has any man planted a vineyard and not begun to enjoy its fruit? Let him return home, or he may die in battle and another man enjoy its fruit.
  44. Deuteronomy 20:7וּמִֽי־ · Has any
    Has any man become pledged to a woman and not married her? Let him return home, or he may die in battle and another man marry her.”
  45. Deuteronomy 20:8מִי־ · Is any
    Then the officers shall speak further to the army, saying, “Is any man afraid or fainthearted? Let him return home, so that the hearts of his brothers will not melt like his own.”
  46. Deuteronomy 21:1מִ֥י · who
    If one is found slain, lying in a field in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess, and it is not known who killed him,