מן
from
also: out of, on account of, off, since fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Preposition
- A relational word (e.g. “in,” “to,” “from”) governing a noun.
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H4480 appears in the Book of 1 Samuel — 31 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
1 Samuel
- 1 Samuel 1:1 מִן prep Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim Zophim, of the hill-country of Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite:
- 1 Samuel 2:15 מִמְּ/ךָ֛ prep + sfx pers 2ms Yes, before they burnt the fat, the priest's servant came, and said to the man who sacrificed, Give flesh to roast for the priest; for he will not have boiled flesh of you, but raw.
- 1 Samuel 2:20 מִן prep Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, Yahweh give you seed of this woman for the petition which was asked of Yahweh. They went to their own home.
- 1 Samuel 2:29 מִמֶּ֔/נִּי prep + sfx pers 1cs Why kick you at my sacrifice and at my offering, which I have commanded in [my] habitation, and honor your sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the best of all the offerings of Israel my people?
- 1 Samuel 3:17 מִמֶּ֑/נִּי מִמֶּ֨/נִּי֙ prep + sfx pers 1cs prep + sfx pers 1cs He said, "What is the thing that [Yahweh] has spoken to you? Please don't hide it from me. God do so to you, and more also, if you hide anything from me of all the things that he spoke to you."
- 1 Samuel 3:18 מִמֶּ֑/נּוּ prep + sfx pers 1cp Samuel told him every whit, and hid nothing from him. He said, It is Yahweh: let him do what seems him good.
- 1 Samuel 4:16 מִן מִן prep prep The man said to Eli, I am he who came out of the army, and I fled today out of the army. He said, How went the matter, my son?
- 1 Samuel 6:3 מִ/כֶּֽם prep + sfx pers 2mp They said, "If you send away the ark of the God of Israel, don't send it empty; but by all means return him a trespass-offering: then you shall be healed, and it shall be known to you why his hand is not removed from you."
- 1 Samuel 7:8 מִמֶּ֔/נּוּ prep + sfx pers 1cp The children of Israel said to Samuel, "Don't cease to cry to Yahweh our God for us, that he will save us out of the hand of the Philistines."
- 1 Samuel 7:11 מִן prep The men of Israel went out of Mizpah, and pursued the Philistines, and struck them, until they came under Beth Kar.
- 1 Samuel 9:2 מִמֶּ֑/נּוּ prep + sfx pers 1cp He had a son, whose name was Saul, an impressive young man; and there was not among the children of Israel a better person than he. From his shoulders and upward he was higher than any of the people.
- 1 Samuel 9:5 מִן prep When they had come to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant who was with him, Come, and let us return, lest my father leave off caring for the donkeys, and be anxious for us.
- 1 Samuel 11:5 מִן prep Behold, Saul came following the oxen out of the field; and Saul said, What ails the people that they weep? They told him the words of the men of Jabesh.
- 1 Samuel 13:15 מִן prep Samuel arose, and got him up from Gilgal to Gibeah of Benjamin. Saul numbered the people who were present with him, about six hundred men.
- 1 Samuel 14:11 מִן prep Both of them disclosed themselves to the garrison of the Philistines: and the Philistines said, Behold, the Hebrews come forth out of the holes where they had hid themselves.
- 1 Samuel 15:28 מִמֶּֽ/ךָּ prep + sfx pers 2ms Samuel said to him, Yahweh has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this day, and has given it to a neighbor of yours who is better than you.
- 1 Samuel 17:40 מִן prep He took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in the shepherd's bag which he had, even in his wallet; and his sling was in his hand: and he drew near to the Philistine.
- 1 Samuel 17:50 מִן prep So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and struck the Philistine, and killed him; but there was no sword in the hand of David.
- 1 Samuel 20:2 מִמֶּ֛/נִּי prep + sfx pers 1cs He said to him, "Far from it; you shall not die: behold, my father does nothing either great or small, but that he discloses it to me; and why should my father hide this thing from me? It is not so."
- 1 Samuel 20:6 מִמֶּ֤/נִּי prep + sfx pers 1cs If your father miss me at all, then say, David earnestly asked leave of me that he might run to Bethlehem his city; for it is the yearly sacrifice there for all the family.
- 1 Samuel 20:21 מִמְּ/ךָ֣ prep + sfx pers 2ms Behold, I will send the boy, [saying], Go, find the arrows. If I tell the boy, Behold, the arrows are on this side of you; take them, and come; for there is peace to you and no hurt, as Yahweh lives.
- 1 Samuel 20:22 מִמְּ/ךָ֣ prep + sfx pers 2ms But if I say thus to the boy, Behold, the arrows are beyond you; go your way; for Yahweh has sent you away.
- 1 Samuel 20:37 מִמְּ/ךָ֥ prep + sfx pers 2ms When the boy was come to the place of the arrow which Jonathan had shot, Jonathan cried after the boy, and said, Isn't the arrow beyond you?
- 1 Samuel 22:8 מִ/כֶּ֛ם prep + sfx pers 2mp that all of you have conspired against me, and there is none who discloses to me when my son makes a league with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you who is sorry for me, or discloses to me that my son has stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?
- 1 Samuel 24:8 מן prep David also arose afterward, and went out of the cave, and cried after Saul, saying, My lord the king. When Saul looked behind him, David bowed with his face to the earth, and did obeisance.
- 1 Samuel 24:12 מִמֶּ֑/ךָּ prep + sfx pers 2ms Yahweh judge between me and you, and Yahweh avenge me of you; but my hand shall not be on you.
- 1 Samuel 24:17 מִמֶּ֑/נִּי prep + sfx pers 1cs He said to David, You are more righteous than I; for you have rendered to me good, whereas I have rendered to you evil.
- 1 Samuel 27:1 מִמֶּ֤/נִּי prep + sfx pers 1cs David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: there is nothing better for me than that I should escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to seek me any more in all the borders of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.
- 1 Samuel 28:9 מִן prep The woman said to him, Behold, you know what Saul has done, how he has cut off those who have familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land: why then lay you a snare for my life, to cause me to die?
- 1 Samuel 28:13 מִן prep The king said to her, Don't be afraid: for what do you see? The woman said to Saul, I see a god coming up out of the earth.
- 1 Samuel 30:19 מִן prep There was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither sons nor daughters, neither spoil, nor anything that they had taken to them: David brought back all.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“from” is the headline sense of the Hebrew word מן (min). Scripture first uses it in Genesis 2:6. It appears 1,094 verses across 38 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its most common vocabulary. Not a single-sense word, it carries 2 senses, among them “out of”, “on account of”, and “off”. It shares a root with מן, מן and מנית. See the sense tree, 1,094-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H4480 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1,094
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1,094 distinct verses.
- 38 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 38 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #29
- by frequency
- Top 50 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 29 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1,094 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1,094 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 421 verses · 38%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 340 verses · 31%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 333 verses · 30%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: From 2×, Of 2×
- American Standard Version†: From 3×, Of 2×
- Berean Standard Bible†: From 380×, Of 91×, Me 61×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: From 617×, It 83×, You 80×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H4480 across 25† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 21 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H4480 across 24† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 19 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H4480 across 983† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 82 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 199 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H4480 across 1,217† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 68 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 0 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
מן I div. Menî, god of fate (award, apportionment
מן II region of Armenia
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
I. n.pr.div. Menî, god of fate (award, apportionment; cf. Arabic n.pr. div. Maniyyat, and perhaps Manât, WeSkizzen iii. 22 f. 189, مَنَوَاتٌ NöZMG xl. 1886, 709; in Nab. מנותו EutNab. No. 2, 1. 5, etc.);—מִלֵּא לַמְנִי מִמְסָךְ Is 65:11 (‖ לַגַּד)—v. Che Di BaeSem. Rel. 79.
I. n.pr.terr. region of Armenia;—Je 51:27 (‖ אֲרָרָט, אַשְׁכְּנַז);=Assyrian Mannai Schr.COT ad loc.; KGF 174, 212, 520.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from מן (mên) (H4482) — string.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
מִן
- (b. h.) from, of; more (or less) than. Ab. Zar. 18ᵃ מן השמים ירחמו from heaven they will have mercy (on me), i.e. I trust in God. Sabb. 21ᵇ המהדרין מן המהדרין v. הָדַר.—מן המובחר, v. בָּחַר; מן המומחה, v. מוּמְחֶה.—Tem. 28ᵃ מן הבהמה להוציא וכ׳ ‘of the cattle’ (Lev. I, 2) intimates the exclusion of &c.; a. v. fr.—Prefix מִ־, מָי־, מֵ־, מֵי־ q. v.—מִנַּיִן, מִנַּיִין, מִינַּיִין (= b. h. מֵאַיִן, v. אַיִן) whence?, whence is it proven?—Yoma 32ᵃ מ׳ לחמש וכ׳ whence is derived the regulation about five immersions &c.? Ib. ומ׳ שכל טבילה וכ׳ and whence is the rule derived that each immersion requires &c.? Ib. 44ᵃ אין לי אלא … מ׳ this would prove to me only in favor of …, whence do you derive that the same applies to …?; a. v. fr. e.g. Leviticus 1:2
מִן ²
- Targ. Gen. I, 2; a. v. fr.—With suffixes of pers. pron. מִנִּי, מִי׳ from me; מִנָּךְ, מִי׳ from thee; מִנֵּיה, מִי׳ from him, it &c. Ib. XXII, 12. Ib. III, 3; a. fr.—Y. Ber. II, 5ᵃ bot. מן הן דסלק to where he had come from. Sabb. 80ᵇ מן דיליה דא ליה this came to him from his own doing. Sot. 40ᵃ ומאי נפקא ליך מִינָּהּ and what difference does it make? מִנִּי ומִנֵּיה יתקלס וכ׳ through myself and him the Most High is exalted. B. Kam. 18ᵃ קאזיל מיניה מיניה it was lost through its (the chicken’s) action alone. Y. Peah VII, 20ᵇ מיניה וביה הוא (the sweetness) is entirely its own (no honey has been added). Snh. 39ᵇ, v. אִבָּא; a. fr.—לא כולא מיניה, לא כל כמיניה it is not at all in his power; v. כּוֹלָא.—מן ד־ from the time that, after; from the fact that; when; because. Lam. R. to II, 2 מן דאכלון after they had eaten; a. v. fr.; v. מִדְּ־.
מָן I
- portion, food. Num. R. s. 12 (play on א̇ר̇ג̇מ̇ן̇) the sun שיצרו הקב"ה לארוג מן וכ׳ whom the Lord has created to weave (ripen) food for creatures; ואין מן אלא פירות וכ׳ man means fruits and food (with ref. to וימן, Dan. I, 5).—Esp. מָּן(הַ) the manna of the desert. Ex. R. s. 25. Tanḥ. B’shall. 20; Mekh. ib., Vayassa, s. 2 אוכלי המן those eating manna (not troubling themselves about to-morrow). Yoma 75ᵃ; a. fr. e.g. Daniel 1:5
מַן I
- (a day’s) support. Succ. 39ᵇ בכדי מן for as much only as is needed for the day. Ib. דהאי מ׳ וכ׳ that man means support, v. preced.—Esp. מַנָּא the manna. Targ. Ex. XVI, 31. Targ. Y. ib. 27; a. e. (some ed. מָנָא).
מַן
- who?, what?, v. מַאן. Targ. Gen. XXIV, 23. Ib. XXXIII, 8 (ed. Berl. מָא; oth. ed. מאן); a. fr.—Emphatic. (מָנָא) מְנָא. Targ. Ps. XXXIX, 5. Targ. Prov. IV, 19; a. fr.
מָן III
- thing, vessel, garment; coulter, v. מָאן.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 115 distinct written forms H4480 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| מִן | Preposition | Amos 3:5 | 607 |
| וּ/מִן | Preposition | Daniel 1:3 | 95 |
| מִמֶּ֖/נּוּ | Preposition | Deuteronomy 22:3 | 35 |
| מִמֶּֽ/נּוּ | Preposition | Deuteronomy 9:14 | 31 |
| מִמֶּ֔/נּוּ | Preposition | Amos 5:11 | 25 |
| מִמֶּ֑/נּוּ | Preposition | Deuteronomy 2:36 | 25 |
| מִמֶּֽ/נִּי | Preposition | Ecclesiastes 2:25 | 23 |
| מִנִּי | Preposition | Isaiah 46:3 | 23 |
| מִמֶּ֑/נִּי | Preposition | Deuteronomy 7:17 | 20 |
| מִמֶּ֨/נּוּ֙ | Preposition | Deuteronomy 26:14 | 16 |
| מִמֶּֽ/נָּה | Preposition | Esther 1:19 | 15 |
| מִֽן | Preposition | Ecclesiastes 6:8 | 12 |
| לְ/מִן | Preposition | Deuteronomy 4:32 | 11 |
| מִמֶּ֖/נָּה | Preposition | Ezekiel 14:13 | 11 |
| מִמֶּֽ/ךָּ | Preposition | Deuteronomy 7:1 | 11 |
| מִמְּ/ךָ֖ | Preposition | Deuteronomy 4:38 | 10 |
| מִמֶּ֛/נּוּ | Preposition | Exodus 12:10 | 9 |
| מִ/כֶּ֖ם | Preposition | Hosea 5:13 | 8 |
| מִמֶּ֑/נָּה | Preposition | Exodus 25:35 | 8 |
| מִמֶּ֔/נִּי | Preposition | Genesis 23:13 | 8 |
| מִמֶּ֔/נָּה | Preposition | Ecclesiastes 7:26 | 8 |
| מִמֶּ֣/נּוּ | Preposition | Daniel 11:31 | 8 |
| מִמֶּ֗/נּוּ | Preposition | Deuteronomy 26:14 | 7 |
| מִ/כֶּ֔ם | Preposition | Deuteronomy 1:17 | 6 |
| מִ/כֶּֽם | Preposition | Deuteronomy 11:23 | 6 |
| מִ/כֶּם֙ | Preposition | Deuteronomy 1:23 | 6 |
| מִמְּ/ךָ֙ | Preposition | Deuteronomy 14:24 | 6 |
| מִ֝מֶּ֗/נִּי | Preposition | Job 7:16 | 5 |
| מִ֝מֶּ֗/נּוּ | Preposition | Proverbs 4:23 | 5 |
| מִמֵּ֖/ךְ | Preposition | Ezekiel 21:3 | 5 |
| מִמֶּ֑/ךָּ | Preposition | Deuteronomy 9:1 | 5 |
| מִמֶּ֨/נִּי֙ | Preposition | Deuteronomy 9:14 | 5 |
| מִ֭מֶּ/נִּי | Preposition | Job 13:13 | 4 |
| מִמְּ/ךָ֛ | Preposition | Ezekiel 24:16 | 4 |
| מִמְּ/ךָ֣ | Preposition | 1 Chronicles 29:14 | 4 |
| מִמְּ/ךָ֥ | Preposition | Genesis 17:6 | 4 |
| מִמֵּ֑/ךְ | Preposition | Ezekiel 16:42 | 4 |
| מִמֵּ֔/ךְ | Preposition | Ezekiel 16:61 | 4 |
| מִמֶּ֛/נָּה | Preposition | Genesis 17:16 | 4 |
| מִמֶּ֥/נָּה | Preposition | Exodus 25:31 | 4 |
| הֲ/מִן | Preposition | Genesis 3:11 | 3 |
| וּ/מִ֨ן | Preposition | Genesis 7:8 | 3 |
| וּ/מִֽן | Preposition | Ezra 10:23 | 3 |
| מִ/כֶּ֗ם | Preposition | Ezekiel 20:38 | 3 |
| מִ/כֶּ֜ם | Preposition | Amos 4:7 | 3 |
| מִ֭מְּ/ךָ | Preposition | Job 15:11 | 3 |
| מִמְּ/ךָ֔ | Preposition | Deuteronomy 20:1 | 3 |
| מִמֶּ֖/נִּי | Preposition | Exodus 8:8 | 3 |
| מִמֶּ֗/נִּי | Preposition | Job 30:1 | 3 |
| מִמֶּ֜/נּוּ | Preposition | 1 Chronicles 18:4 | 3 |
| מִמֶּ֣/נִּי | Preposition | Judges 16:17 | 3 |
| מִמֶּ֤/נּוּ | Preposition | Judges 15:19 | 3 |
| מִמֶּ֥/נִּי | Preposition | Jeremiah 44:28 | 3 |
| מִנִּ֣י | Preposition | Judges 5:14 | 3 |
| מֶֽ/נִּי | Preposition | Job 21:16 | 3 |
| מִ/כֶּ֛ם | Preposition | 1 Samuel 22:8 | 2 |
| מִ/נִּ֖י | Preposition | Isaiah 22:4 | 2 |
| מִ֥ן | Preposition | Job 38:1 | 2 |
| מִ֫מֶּ֥/נִּי | Preposition | Psalms 28:1 | 2 |
| מִמְּ/ךָ֗ | Preposition | Genesis 27:45 | 2 |
The 60 most common forms are shown; 55 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H4480, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Derived from this word
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. 2 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1,027 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1,094 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 2:6
- Exodus 1:9
- Leviticus 1:2
- Numbers 5:2
- Deuteronomy 1:17
- Joshua 1:7
- Judges 1:13
- Ruth 1:7
- 1 Samuel 1:1
- 2 Samuel 1:2
- 1 Kings 1:39
- 2 Kings 1:4
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
