Midvash

דַּיday

דַּי: sufficiency, enough

Pronunciation: dahee · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1767

Meanings

1. absolute thrice only (Malachi 3:10; Psalms 72:7; Esther 1:18)

2. Combined with בְּ, כְּ, and especially מִן, דַּי (דֵּי) has a tendency to form compound prepositions, used idiomatically in certain applications

a. for, pretii (Nahum 2:13; Habakkuk 2:13; Jeremiah 51:58)

b. according to the sufficiency, abundance, of (Leviticus 25:26; Deuteronomy 25:2; Nehemiah 5:8)

c. out of the abundance of, as often as (1 Samuel 1:7; 1 Samuel 18:30; 1 Kings 14:28)

מַדַּי: see מה 1.e. (2 Chronicles 30:3)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 38 times in the Bible.

  • Exodus 36:5 They went to Moses and reported, “The people have given more than enough materials to complete the job the Lord has commanded us to do!”
  • Exodus 36:7 Their contributions were more than enough to complete the whole project.
  • Leviticus 5:7 “But if you cannot afford to bring a sheep, you may bring to the Lord two turtledoves or two young pigeons as the penalty for your sin. One of the birds will be for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering.
  • Leviticus 12:8 “If a woman cannot afford to bring a lamb, she must bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons. One will be for the burnt offering and the other for the purification offering. The priest will sacrifice them to purify her, and she will be ceremonially clean.”
  • Leviticus 25:26 If there is no close relative to buy the land, but the person who sold it gets enough money to buy it back,
  • Leviticus 25:28 But if the original owner cannot afford to buy back the land, it will remain with the new owner until the next Year of Jubilee. In the jubilee year, the land must be returned to the original owners so they can return to their family land.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).