Who?
מִיStrong’s H4310mi
Appears in 342 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mi is the Hebrew word usually translated “who”, “whom” and “whoever”. It appears in 342 verses of the Old Testament.
“Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it.”
Meaning
- Who?, whose?, whom?, would that, whoever, whosoever
How it's translated
- who 285
- and who 61
- whom 46
- to whom 15
- and whoever 4
- whoever 3
- and to whom 2
- from whom 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 49
- Isaiah 47
- Psalms 35
- 1 Samuel 26
- Genesis 17
- Jeremiah 17
35 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Zechariah 4:10In contextFor who hath despised the day of small things? for they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven; they are the eyes of the LORD, which run to and fro through the whole earth.
- Genesis 3:11And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?
- Genesis 19:12And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of this place:
- Genesis 21:7And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should have given children suck? for I have born him a son in his old age.
- Genesis 21:26And Abimelech said, I wot not who hath done this thing: neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I of it, but to day.
- Genesis 24:23And said, Whose daughter art thou? tell me, I pray thee: is there room in thy father’s house for us to lodge in?
All 342 verses, by book
- 1 Samuel 26
- 2:254:86:209:2010:1211:1212:314:1717:2617:2817:5517:5617:5818:1820:1022:1423:2224:1425:1026:626:926:1426:1528:1130:1330:24
- Ezra 1
- 1:3
- Nehemiah 1
- 6:11
- Job 49
- 4:24:75:16:89:49:129:199:2411:511:1012:312:913:513:1914:414:1317:317:1519:2321:3123:323:1324:2525:326:426:1429:231:3131:3534:734:1334:2936:2236:2338:238:538:638:2538:2838:2938:3638:3738:4139:541:1041:1141:1341:1442:3
- Psalms 35
- 4:66:512:414:715:118:3119:1224:324:824:1025:1227:134:1235:1039:653:655:659:760:964:571:1973:2576:777:1389:689:889:4890:1194:16106:2107:43108:10113:5130:3147:17
- Isaiah 47
- 1:126:810:314:2722:1623:827:428:929:1533:1436:536:2037:2340:1240:1340:1440:1840:2540:2641:241:441:2642:1942:2342:2443:943:1344:744:1045:2146:548:1449:2150:150:850:950:1051:1251:1953:153:854:1557:457:1160:863:166:8
- Hosea 1
- 14:9
- Obadiah 1
- 1:3
- Haggai 1
- 2:3
Hebrew dictionary
מִי mi · who?
who?, whose?, whom?, would that, whoever, whosoever
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “who” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WHO, pronoun
relative. pronoun hoo. [Latin who is undoubtedly a contracted word in English as in Latin. See What and Wight.]
- who is a pronoun relative, always referring to persons.
- Which of many.
- It is much used in asking questions; as, who am I? who art thou? who is this? who are these? In this case, the purpose is to obtain the name or designation of the person or character.
- It has sometimes a disjunctive sense.
All definitions
- Whose is of all genders.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.