Mi מִי

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Mi
מִי
Transliterationmi
Strong's numberH4310
LanguageHebrew
Part of speechinterrogative
Glosswho?
Occurrences423 in 342 verses
Most frequent inJob (49)

Mi (Hebrew מִי, Strong's H4310) is a Hebrew interrogative meaning “who?”. It occurs 423 times in 342 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

who?, whose?, whom?, would that, whoever, whosoever

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVany (2), who (1), whose (1), what (1), god (1), you (1), which (1), he (1), whosoever (1)
BSBwho (276), whom (39), what (17), whoever (14), whose (13), if only (13), which (6), oh (5), has any (3), which one (2), oh that someone (2), how (2), and 24 other renderings

Verses

Mi occurs in 342 verses, listed here by reference.

Genesis (17): 3:11, 19:12, 21:7, 21:26, 24:23, 24:47, 24:65, 27:18, 27:32, 27:33, 32:17, 33:5, 33:8, 38:25, 43:22, 48:8, 49:9

Exodus (11): 2:14, 3:11, 4:11, 5:2, 10:8, 15:11, 16:3, 24:14, 32:24, 32:26, 32:33

Numbers (7): 11:4, 11:18, 11:29, 22:9, 23:10, 24:9, 24:23

Deuteronomy (15): 3:24, 4:7, 4:8, 5:26, 5:29, 9:2, 20:5, 20:6, 20:7, 20:8, 21:1, 28:67, 30:12, 30:13, 33:29

Joshua (2): 9:8, 24:15

Judges (13): 1:1, 6:29, 7:3, 9:28, 9:29, 9:38, 10:18, 13:17, 15:6, 18:3, 20:18, 21:5, 21:8

Ruth (3): 2:5, 3:9, 3:16

1 Samuel (26): 2:25, 4:8, 6:20, 9:20, 10:12, 11:12, 12:3, 14:17, 17:26, 17:28, 17:55, 17:56, 17:58, 18:18, 20:10, 22:14, 23:22, 24:14, 25:10, 26:6, 26:9, 26:14, 26:15, 28:11, 30:13, 30:24

2 Samuel (14): 1:8, 3:12, 7:18, 7:23, 11:21, 12:22, 15:4, 16:10, 16:19, 18:12, 18:33, 20:11, 22:32, 23:15

1 Kings (5): 1:20, 1:27, 3:9, 20:14, 22:20

2 Kings (8): 6:11, 9:5, 9:32, 10:9, 10:13, 18:20, 18:35, 19:22

1 Chronicles (5): 11:17, 17:16, 17:21, 29:5, 29:14

2 Chronicles (5): 1:10, 2:6, 18:19, 32:14, 36:23

Ezra (1): 1:3

Nehemiah (1): 6:11

Esther (4): 4:14, 6:4, 6:6, 7:5

Job (49): 4:2, 4:7, 5:1, 6:8, 9:4, 9:12, 9:19, 9:24, 11:5, 11:10, 12:3, 12:9, 13:5, 13:19, 14:4, 14:13, 17:3, 17:15, 19:23, 21:31, 23:3, 23:13, 24:25, 25:3, 26:4, 26:14, 29:2, 31:31, 31:35, 34:7, 34:13, 34:29, 36:22, 36:23, 38:2, 38:5, 38:6, 38:25, 38:28, 38:29, 38:36, 38:37, 38:41, 39:5, 41:10, 41:11, 41:13, 41:14, 42:3

Psalms (35): 4:6, 6:5, 12:4, 14:7, 15:1, 18:31, 19:12, 24:3, 24:8, 24:10, 25:12, 27:1, 34:12, 35:10, 39:6, 53:6, 55:6, 59:7, 60:9, 64:5, 71:19, 73:25, 76:7, 77:13, 89:6, 89:8, 89:48, 90:11, 94:16, 106:2, 107:43, 108:10, 113:5, 130:3, 147:17

Proverbs (11): 9:4, 9:16, 18:14, 20:6, 20:9, 23:29, 24:22, 27:4, 30:4, 30:9, 31:10

Ecclesiastes (14): 2:19, 2:25, 3:21, 3:22, 4:8, 5:10, 6:12, 7:13, 7:24, 8:1, 8:4, 8:7, 9:4, 10:14

Song of Solomon (4): 3:6, 6:10, 8:1, 8:5

Isaiah (47): 1:12, 6:8, 10:3, 14:27, 22:16, 23:8, 27:4, 28:9, 29:15, 33:14, 36:5, 36:20, 37:23, 40:12, 40:13, 40:14, 40:18, 40:25, 40:26, 41:2, 41:4, 41:26, 42:19, 42:23, 42:24, 43:9, 43:13, 44:7, 44:10, 45:21, 46:5, 48:14, 49:21, 50:1, 50:8, 50:9, 50:10, 51:12, 51:19, 53:1, 53:8, 54:15, 57:4, 57:11, 60:8, 63:1, 66:8

Jeremiah (17): 2:24, 6:10, 9:1, 9:2, 9:12, 10:7, 15:5, 17:9, 18:13, 21:13, 23:18, 30:21, 44:28, 46:7, 49:4, 49:19, 50:44

Lamentations (3): 2:13, 2:20, 3:37

Ezekiel (4): 27:32, 31:2, 31:18, 32:19

Hosea (1): 14:9

Joel (2): 2:11, 2:14

Amos (3): 3:8, 7:2, 7:5

Obadiah (1): 1:3

Jonah (3): 1:7, 1:8, 3:9

Micah (3): 1:5, 6:9, 7:18

Nahum (3): 1:6, 3:7, 3:19

Haggai (1): 2:3

Zechariah (2): 4:7, 4:10

Malachi (2): 1:10, 3:2

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
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