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 Ecclesiastes — 15 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.
Ecclesiastes
- Ecclesiastes 2:13 מִן מִן prep prep Then I saw that wisdom excels folly, as far as light excels darkness.
- Ecclesiastes 2:25 מִמֶּֽ/נִּי prep + sfx pers 1cs For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, more than I?
- Ecclesiastes 3:14 וּ/מִמֶּ֖/נּוּ conj + prep + sfx pers 3ms I know that whatever God does, it shall be forever. Nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; and God has done it, that men should fear before him.
- Ecclesiastes 3:19 מִן prep For that which happens to the sons of men happens to animals. Even one thing happens to them. As the one dies, so the other dies. Yes, they have all one breath; and man has no advantage over the animals: for all is vanity.
- Ecclesiastes 3:20 מִן prep All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.
- Ecclesiastes 4:2 מִן prep Therefore I praised the dead who have been long dead more than the living who are yet alive.
- Ecclesiastes 4:9 מִן prep Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor.
- Ecclesiastes 5:19 מִמֶּ֨/נּוּ֙ prep + sfx pers 1cp Every man also to whom God has given riches and wealth, and has given him power to eat of it, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labor--this is the gift of God.
- Ecclesiastes 6:2 מִמֶּ֔/נּוּ prep + sfx pers 1cp a man to whom God gives riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God gives him no power to eat of it, but an alien eats it. This is vanity, and it is an evil disease.
- Ecclesiastes 6:3 מִן מִמֶּ֖/נּוּ prep prep + sfx pers 1cp If a man fathers a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not filled with good, and moreover he has no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he:
- Ecclesiastes 6:8 מִֽן prep For what advantage has the wise more than the fool? What has the poor man, that knows how to walk before the living?
- Ecclesiastes 6:10 מִמֶּֽ/נּוּ prep + sfx pers 3ms Whatever has been, its name was given long ago; and it is known what man is; neither can he contend with him who is mightier than he.
- Ecclesiastes 7:23 מִמֶּֽ/נִּי prep + sfx pers 1cs All this have I proved in wisdom. I said, "I will be wise;" but it was far from me.
- Ecclesiastes 7:26 מִמֶּ֔/נָּה prep + sfx pers 3fs I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and traps, whose hands are chains. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner will be ensnared by her.
- Ecclesiastes 9:4 מִן prep For to him who is joined with all the living there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
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.
