What does מִי · יְהֹוָה mean in the Bible?
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Hebrew · H4310, H3068
מִי לַיהוָה
Who? (occasionally, by a peculiar idiom, of things); also (indefinitely) whoever ; often used in oblique construction with prefix or suffix · (the) self- Existent or Eternal; Jeho-vah , Jewish national name of God
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מִי H4310 who? (occasionally, by a peculiar idiom, of things); also (indefinitely) whoever ; often used in oblique construction with prefix or suffix
Pronunciation miy
Interrogative pronoun marking agency and identity; shifts from direct questions to indefinite "whoever" in rhetorical or conditional contexts
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יְהֹוָה H3068 (the) self- Existent or Eternal; Jeho-vah , Jewish national name of God
Pronunciation YHWH
God's self-existence and eternity marked by the covenantal name revealing His unchanging, personal relationship with Israel
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What does מִי לַיהוָה (mi laYHWH) mean in the Bible?
מִי · יְהֹוָה is a Hebrew phrase meaning "who is for the LORD?".
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How many biblical occurrences are listed for H4310, H3068?
H4310, H3068 is connected to 6,944 lexical occurrence verses in the lexicon data.
Evidence Summary
Hebrew phrase. who is for the LORD?
Strong's H4310, H3068
Lexical occurrences 6,944 verses Source Gloss
who is for the LORD?
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How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
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MorphGNT Strong's Dictionary XML — CC0 1.0 Public Domain
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