מִין min

Hebrew word for “kind” · Strong’s H4327 · used 31 times in 18 verses

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Meaning

kind, sometimes a species (usually of animals)

How it is translated

Glosses given for min in context, with how often each is used:

• kind 31

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Leviticus 11 (6), Genesis 1 (5), Deuteronomy 14 (4), Genesis 6 (1), Genesis 7 (1), Ezekiel 47 (1)

Forms

• למינהו 14
• למינה 12
• למינו 4
• למינהם 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with min more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• רֶמֶשׂ remes “creeping” 4
• בְּהֵמָה behemah “animal” 4
• טוֹב tov “be pleasing” 3
• שַׁחַף shachaph “gull” 2
• תַּחְמָס tachmas “ostrich” 2
• דּוּכִיפַת dukhiphat “hoopoe” 2
• אֲנָפָה anaphah “heron” 2
• אַיָּה ayyah “falcon” 2
• עֲטַלֵּף atalleph “bat” 2
• עוֹף oph “bird” 3
• נֵץ nets “hawk” 2
• חֲסִידָה chasidah “stork” 2

Key verses

The verses using min that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Genesis 1:11 — And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the…
• Genesis 1:12 — And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw…
• Genesis 1:21 — And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after…
• Genesis 1:24 — And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
• Genesis 1:25 — And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that…
• Genesis 6:20 — Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep…
• Genesis 7:14 — They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl…
• Leviticus 11:15 — Every raven after his kind;
• Leviticus 11:16 — And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,
• Leviticus 11:22 — Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind.
• Leviticus 11:29 — These also shall be unclean unto you among the creeping things that creep upon the earth; the weasel, and the mouse, and the tortoise after his kind,
• Ezekiel 47:10 — And it shall come to pass, that the fishers shall stand upon it from En-gedi even unto En-eglaim; they shall be a place to spread forth nets; their fish shall…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.