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Isaiah 44:10
“Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing?” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
מִיmîy · me
H4310 · Hebrew
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.