Original Language Studio
Isaiah 42:24
“Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the Lord, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H4310 · Hebrew
- Definition
- who? (occasionally, by a peculiar idiom, of things); also (indefinitely) whoever; often used in oblique construction with prefix or suffix
- Derivation
- an interrogative pronoun of persons, as H4100 (מָה) is of things,
- KJV renderings
- any (man), [idiom] he, [idiom] him, [phrase] O that! what, which, who(-m, -se, -soever), [phrase] would to God.
- Grammar
- מִֽי — particle (interrogative)
- Usage
- Occurs 423 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 3:11Genesis 19:12Genesis 21:7Genesis 21:26Genesis 24:23
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read מִי here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.