מִןmin

1. with verbs expressing (or implying) separation or removal, whether from a person or place, or in any direction, also from guilt, calamity, etc.

a. from (Exodus 19:14; Deuteronomy 22:8; Isaiah 14:12)

b. by the bowmen, of position, away from, far from (Proverbs 20:3; Numbers 15:24; Judges 5:11)

2. Out of

a. out of (Genesis 3:23; Genesis 34:26; Genesis 40:15)

b. of the material out of which anything is formed, or from which it is derived (Genesis 2:19; Genesis 2:23; Exodus 39:1)

c. of the source or origin (Genesis 16:2; Genesis 30:3; Genesis 17:16)

d. of the source or author of an action, counsel, or event (1 Samuel 24:14; 2 Samuel 3:37; Genesis 24:50)

e. in consequence of, at, by, of the immediate, or efficient, cause (chiefly in poetry) (Genesis 19:36; Genesis 49:25; 1 Samuel 31:3)

f. of the remoter cause, the ultimate ground on account of which something happens or is done (Exodus 2:23; Exodus 6:9; Exodus 15:23)

g. the cause being conceived as regulative, מן occasionally approaches in sense to according to (Jonah 3:7; Ezra 6:14; Daniel 2:8)

3. Partitively (a sense connecting with 2.a. (c), above)

a. two out of, from (Genesis 6:19; Genesis 7:8; Genesis 39:11)

b. some of, the number being omitted, מִן is used indefinitely (Exodus 16:27; Leviticus 25:49; 2 Samuel 11:17)

4. of time

a. from, since, as marking the terminus a quo, the anterior limit of a continuous period (Deuteronomy 9:24; 1 Samuel 7:2; 1 Samuel 8:8)

b. after, as marking the period immediately succeeding the limit (Genesis 38:24; Joshua 23:1; Ezekiel 38:8)

c. in such phrases, however, מִן sometimes (compare 1.c.) loses its significance, not from former time, but in former time, formerly (2 Samuel 15:34; Isaiah 16:13; Genesis 6:4)

5. (וְעַד) מִן ֗֗֗ עַד from... even, to: very often

a. in geography or local sense (Genesis 10:19; Genesis 15:18; Genesis 25:18)

b. metaphor not of actual space, but of classes of objects, to express idiomatically the idea ofcomprehension, so that the two prepositions may be often represented by both... and (Genesis 19:4; Genesis 19:11; 1 Samuel 5:9)

c. of time (Genesis 46:34; 1 Samuel 12:2; Jeremiah 3:25)

d. there occur further (Joshua 15:21; Exodus 26:28; Exodus 36:33)

6. than, In comparisons, beyond, above

a. when an object is compared with another distinct from itself (Judges 14:18; Leviticus 21:10; Numbers 14:12)

b. c: ex in eximius, egregius, when an object is compared with a group or multitude of which it forms one (Genesis 3:1; Genesis 3:14; Genesis 37:3)

c. sometimes in poetry the idea on which מן is logically dependent, is unexpressed, and must be understood by the reader (Isaiah 10:10; Micah 7:4; Job 11:7)

d. not unfrequently expresses the idea of a thing being too much for a person, or surpassing his powers (Genesis 18:14; Deuteronomy 17:8; Psalms 131:1)

7. prefixed to an infinitive

a. from, on account of, through, with a causal force (rare) (Deuteronomy 7:7; Deuteronomy 7:8; Deuteronomy 9:28)

b. after verbs implying restraint, prevention, cessation, etc. (Genesis 16:2; Genesis 29:35; Genesis 30:9)

c. with a temporal force, since, after (compare 4) (Numbers 24:23; Isaiah 44:7; Hosea 7:4)

8. Once Deut 33:11 as a conjunction before a finite verb (Deuteronomy 33:11)

9. In compounds (Ecclesiastes 4:17; Judges 8:13)

b. from, terminus a quo (Micah 7:12; Deuteronomy 4:32; Judges 20:1)

מִנִּי: see מִן (Psalms 45:9)