Kind
מִיןStrong’s H4327min
Appears in 18 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Min is the Hebrew word usually translated “kind its” and “kind their”. It appears in 18 verses of the Old Testament.
“And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.”
Meaning
- Kind, sometimes a species (usually of animals)
How it's translated
- to kind its 30
- to kind their 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 7
- Leviticus 6
- Deuteronomy 4
- Ezekiel 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 1:12And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
- Genesis 1:21And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
- Genesis 1:24And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
- Genesis 1:25And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
- Genesis 6:20Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.
- Genesis 7:14They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.
Hebrew dictionary
מִין min · kind
kind, sometimes a species (usually of animals)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “kind” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
KIND, noun
- Race; genus; generic class; as in mankind or humankind.
- Sort, in a sense more loose than genus; as, there are several kinds of eloquence and of style, many kinds of music, many kinds of government, various kinds of architecture or of painting, various kinds of soil, etc.
- Particular nature; as laws most perfect in their kind
- Natural state; produce or commodity, as distinguished from money; as taxes paid in kind
All definitions and other forms of “kind”
- Nature; natural propensity or determination.
- Manner; way. [Little used.]
- Sort.
KIND, adjective
- Disposed to do good to others, and to make them happy by granting their requests, supplying their wants or assisting them in distress; having tenderness or goodness of nature; benevolent; benignant.“God is kind to the unthankful, and to the evil” Luke 6:35“Be ye kind one to another, tender-hearted” Ephesians 4:32
- Proceeding from tenderness or goodness of heart; benevolent; as a kind act; a kind return of favors.
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.