What does מִי · מָצָא mean in the Bible?
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Hebrew · H4310, H4672
מִי יִמְצָא
Who? (occasionally, by a peculiar idiom, of things); also (indefinitely) whoever ; often used in oblique construction with prefix or suffix · properly, to come forth to, i.e. appear or exist ; transitively, to attain , i.e. find or acquire ; figuratively, to occur , meet or be present
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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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מָצָא H4672 properly, to come forth to, i.e. appear or exist ; transitively, to attain , i.e. find or acquire ; figuratively, to occur , meet or be present
Pronunciation māṣāʾ
From existence or appearance to discovery: finding what comes forth or becomes present to the seeker.
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What does מִי יִמְצָא (mi yimtsa) mean in the Bible?
מִי · מָצָא is a Hebrew phrase meaning "who can find?".
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How many biblical occurrences are listed for H4310, H4672?
H4310, H4672 is connected to 880 lexical occurrence verses in the lexicon data.
Evidence Summary
Hebrew phrase. who can find?
Strong's H4310, H4672
Lexical occurrences 880 verses Source Gloss
who can find?
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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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