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 Isaiah — 29 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.
Isaiah
- Isaiah 1:15 מִ/כֶּ֔ם prep + sfx pers 2mp When you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.
- Isaiah 2:22 מִן prep Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils; For of what account is he?
- Isaiah 5:23 מִמֶּֽ/נּוּ prep + sfx pers 3ms Who acquit the guilty for a bribe, But deny justice for the innocent!
- Isaiah 6:6 מִן prep Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar.
- Isaiah 7:13 מִ/כֶּם֙ prep + sfx pers 2mp He said, "Listen now, house of David: Is it not enough for you to try the patience of men, that you will try the patience of my God also?
- Isaiah 13:9 מִמֶּֽ/נָּה prep + sfx pers 3fs Behold, the day of Yahweh comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy the sinners of it out of it.
- Isaiah 14:3 וּ/מִן conj + prep It shall happen in the day that Yahweh shall give you rest from your sorrow, and from your trouble, and from the hard service in which you were made to serve,
- Isaiah 16:4 מִן prep Let my outcasts dwell with you; as for Moab, be a covert to him from the face of the destroyer. For the extortioner is brought to nothing, destruction ceases, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.
- Isaiah 16:10 מִן prep Gladness is taken away, and joy out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither joyful noise: nobody shall tread out wine in the presses; I have made the [vintage] shout to cease.
- Isaiah 18:2 מִן prep that sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus on the waters, [saying], Go, you swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide!
- Isaiah 18:7 מִן prep In that time shall a present be brought to Yahweh of Hosts [from] a people tall and smooth, even from a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide, to the place of the name of Yahweh of Hosts, Mount Zion.
- Isaiah 20:5 וּ/מִן conj + prep They shall be dismayed and confounded, because of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.
- Isaiah 22:4 מִ/נִּ֖י prep + sfx pers 1cs Therefore said I, Look away from me, I will weep bitterly; don't labor to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
- Isaiah 28:7 מִן מִן prep prep Even these reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they stagger with strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
- Isaiah 29:13 מִמֶּ֑/נִּי prep + sfx pers 1cs The Lord said, Because this people draw near [to me], and with their mouth and with their lips to honor me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught [them];
- Isaiah 30:1 מִ/נִּ֔י prep + sfx pers 1cs Woe to the rebellious children, says Yahweh, who take counsel, but not of me; and who make a league, but not of my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin,
- Isaiah 30:11 מִנֵּי מִנֵּי prep prep get out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us."
- Isaiah 38:12 מִ/נִּ֖י prep + sfx pers 1cs My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me as a shepherd's tent: I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life; he will cut me off from the loom: From day even to night will you make an end of me.
- Isaiah 39:7 מִמְּ/ךָ֛ prep + sfx pers 2ms Of your sons who shall issue from you, whom you shall father, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.
- Isaiah 46:3 מִנִּי מִנִּי prep prep Listen to me, house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, that have been borne [by me] from their birth, that have been carried from the womb;
- Isaiah 49:17 מִמֵּ֥/ךְ prep + sfx pers 2fs Your children make haste; your destroyers and those who made you waste shall go forth from you.
- Isaiah 53:3 מִמֶּ֔/נּוּ prep + sfx pers 1cp He was despised, and rejected by men; a man of suffering, and acquainted with disease: and as one from whom men hide their face he was despised; and we didn't respect him.
- Isaiah 54:8 מִמֵּ֔/ךְ prep + sfx pers 2fs In overflowing wrath I hid my face from you for a moment; but with everlasting loving kindness will I have mercy on you, says Yahweh your Redeemer.
- Isaiah 55:10 מִן prep For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky, and doesn't return there, but waters the earth, and makes it bring forth and bud, and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater;
- Isaiah 58:12 מִמְּ/ךָ֙ prep + sfx pers 2ms Those who shall be of you shall build the old waste places; you shall raise up the foundations of many generations; and you shall be called The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
- Isaiah 59:2 מִ/כֶּ֖ם prep + sfx pers 2mp but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.
- Isaiah 59:9 מִמֶּ֔/נּוּ prep + sfx pers 1cp Therefore is justice far from us, neither does righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but, behold, darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.
- Isaiah 59:11 מִמֶּֽ/נּוּ prep + sfx pers 1cp We roar all like bears, and moan sore like doves: we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
- Isaiah 64:7 מִמֶּ֔/נּוּ prep + sfx pers 1cp There is none who calls on your name, who stirs up himself to take hold of you; for you have hid your face from us, and have consumed us by means of our iniquities.
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.
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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.
