מִן preposition from, out of, by, by reason of, at, more than (Biblical Hebrew and general Aramaic id.); — rarely assimilated, as in Hebrew, see [Dan 6:5] מִצַּד, [Ezra 5:11]; [Ezra 6:14] suffix מִנִּי, מִנָּךְ 3 masculine מִנֵּהּ, feminine מִנַּהּ [Dan 2:42]; [Dan 7:24] 3 masculine plural מִנְּהוֺן (so Palmyrene Tariff ii. a 34; Nabataean, Egyptian Aramaic מנהם, CookeNo. 89. 6, S-CPap. A 10) [Dan 2:33] (twice in verse); [Dan 2:41] (twice in verse); [Dan 2:42] (twice in verse) Kt (Qr each time feminine מִנְּהֵן), [Dan 6:3] (twice in verse); —
1. of place:
\ \ a. from, [Dan 4:10]; [Dan 4:11]; [Dan 4:28]; [Dan 7:4] +, מִן תַּמָּה [Ezra 6:6] figurative on the side or part of (compare Biblical Hebrew 1 c) [Dan 6:5] מִצַּד מַלְכוּתָא.
\ \ b. out of, [Dan 3:15]; [Dan 3:26]; [Dan 5:2]; [Dan 7:3], etc.
\ \ c. (coming) from [Dan 2:35], away from, [Dan 2:45]; [Dan 4:11]; [Dan 4:22]; [Dan 4:28]; [Jer 10:11].
\ \ d. to ask or exact of a person, [Dan 2:16]; [Dan 2:49] +; [Ezra 7:26] to deliver from [Dan 6:21].
2. a. of the source (Biblical Hebrew 2 b), as to be fed from [Dan 4:9] or author (ib. d), מִנִּי שִׂים טְעֵם = by me is a decree made, [Dan 3:29]; [Dan 4:3] ([Dan 6:27] מִןקֳֿדָמַי), [Ezra 4:19] +, compare [Ezra 5:17] מִנַּי = on my part [Dan 2:5]; [Dan 2:8] (see אַזְדָּא).
\ \ b. of the immediate cause, as a result of, by, [Dan 4:22] (= ב v.[Dan 4:12] v.[Dan 4:20]), v.[Dan 4:30]; [Dan 5:21]: so with a verb of fearing [Dan 5:19].
\ \ c. of the remoter cause, by reason of (Biblical Hebrew 2 f ), [Dan 5:19] מִןרְֿבוּתָא, [Dan 7:11] so מִןדִּֿי, see דִּי
3. d. of the norm (compare Biblical Hebrew 2 g) = at, according to, [Ezra 6:14] ׳מִןטַֿעַם אֱלָהּ יִשׂ at the decree of, etc., [Ezra 7:23]; [Dan 2:8] מִןיַֿצִּיב according to certainty, v[Dan 2:47] מִןקְֿשֹׁט.
3. partitively (Biblical Hebrew 3), [Dan 6:3] חַד מִנְּהוֺן, [Dan 7:8]; [Dan 7:16]; [Dan 2:25]; [Dan 5:13] (some) of [Dan 2:41] מִןנִֿצְבְּתָא; מִנְּהוֺן מִ֗֗֗נְּהוֺן some . . . others of them [Dan 2:33]; [Dan 2:41]; [Dan 2:42]a; so v[Dan 2:42]b מִ֗֗֗נַּהּ.
4. of time, from, [Dan 2:20] (מִן ֗֗֗ וְעַד), [Ezra 4:15]; [Ezra 4:19] see also אְדַיִן and דַּי
4.
5. in comparisons, different from [Dan 7:3]; [Dan 7:7]; [Dan 7:19]; [Dan 7:23]; [Dan 7:24], beyond, more than [Dan 2:30]; [Dan 2:39]; [Dan 6:30]; [Dan 7:20] end; [Dan 4:13] לִבְבֵהּ מִןאֲֿנָשָׁא יְשַׁנּוֺן let his heart be changed away from man's (Biblical Hebrew 7 b b; [Isa 52:14]).
6. compounds: — see לְוָת, קֳדָס, [קַדְמָה], תְּחוֺת.
מְנֵא see מנה. below
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