מִין
mîyn · meen
a sort, i.e. species
Lexicon
Derivation: from an unused root meaning to portion out;
a sort, i.e. species
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: kind. Compare H4480 (מִן).
Letters
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- יYod10
Picture: arm and closed hand
- Concrete
- hand · arm · work
- Extended
- a deed · to make · to work · to throw or worship
- נNun50
Picture: a sprouting seed, or a fish in water
- Concrete
- seed · sprout · fish · offspring
- Extended
- life · continuation · heir · to perpetuate
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
water, chaos, the mighty deep › the hand that works › the seed, life continuing
Water, chaos, the mighty deep of the hand that works of the seed, life continuing.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of מִין above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
31 occurrences · 31 OT · 0 NT · 12 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- after his kind22 · 71%
- after their kind5 · 16%
- after her kind2 · 6%
- was in itself, after his kind1 · 3%
- shall be according to their kinds1 · 3%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.