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מִי

mi

me

Strong's 1890 spelling: mîy

who? (occasionally, by a peculiar idiom, of things)

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

who? (occasionally, by a peculiar idiom, of things); also (indefinitely) whoever; often used in oblique construction with prefix or suffix

Rendered in the KJV as

any (man), [idiom] he, [idiom] him, [phrase] O that! what, which, who(-m, -se, -soever), [phrase] would to God.

  • 423
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 35 of 39
    Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
  • 51
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 423 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 51

  • מִֽי־74
  • מִ֣י70
  • מִ֥י42
  • מִ֤י41
  • מִי־40
  • מִ֖י23
  • וּמִ֥י21
  • וּמִ֣י19
  • מִ֚י9
  • וּמִֽי־8
  • וּמִ֤י6
  • מִ֗י6

and 39 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 16

  • who?285
  • and who?61
  • whom?45
  • [belongs] to whom?7
  • [belong] to whom?5
  • and whoever4
  • to whom?4
  • whoever3
  • from whom?2
  • and [belong] to whom?1
  • and [belongs] to whom?1
  • and for whom?1

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 5

  • question word333
  • conjunction (“and”) + question word65
  • preposition + question word21
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + question word3
  • preposition + relative particle (“who / which”) + preposition + question word1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HPi · 333
  • HC/Pi · 65
  • HR/Pi · 21
  • HC/R/Pi · 3
  • HR/Tr/R/Pi · 1

All 423, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Job carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Genesis18 occurrences
Exodus14 occurrences
Numbers7 occurrences
Deuteronomy16 occurrences
Joshua2 occurrences
Judges14 occurrences
Ruth3 occurrences
1 Samuel34 occurrences
2 Samuel17 occurrences
1 Kings6 occurrences
2 Kings10 occurrences
1 Chronicles7 occurrences
2 Chronicles6 occurrences
Ezra1 occurrence
Nehemiah1 occurrence
Esther4 occurrences
Job62 occurrences
Psalms42 occurrences
Proverbs19 occurrences
Ecclesiastes17 occurrences
Song of Solomon4 occurrences
Isaiah60 occurrences
Jeremiah27 occurrences
Lamentations3 occurrences
Ezekiel4 occurrences
Hosea1 occurrence
Joel2 occurrences
Amos4 occurrences
Obadiah1 occurrence
Jonah3 occurrences
Micah4 occurrences
Nahum4 occurrences
Haggai1 occurrence
Zechariah2 occurrences
Malachi3 occurrences
Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).