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- מִיII h. a. ch. (b. h.) 1) who?; which?; he who. M. Kat. 16b ראה מי קוראוכ׳ Ms. M. (ed. omit ראה) see who calls thee outside. Keth.64b מי שוכר את מי which hires which?, i. e. which (of the two) hires and which is hired? B. Bath.IX, 1 מי שמתוכ׳ he who (if one) died and left Ib. VI, 7 מי שהיתה דרךוכ׳ he through whose field there is a public passage. Ib. 6 מי שיש לו גינהוכ׳ he who has a garden ; a. v. fr.(Chald.) Ab. Zar.41b מי יימר דבטליה Ms. M. (ed. דבטלה) who can say (how do we know) that he cancelled it? 2) (who will?, Oh that! Sot.V, 2, a. e. מי יגלהוכ׳, v. גָּלָה. Pes.49b מי יתן לית״חוכ׳ Oh that I had a scholar before me, and I would ; a. fr. 3) (is there any?; in gen. introducing a question:) is there?, docs he? Sabb.31a מי כאן הלל does Hillel live here? 33a מי איכא מידיוכ׳ is there anything which is permitted Ber.34a top, v. חַבְרוּתָא. Ḥull.32b מחו מי מצטרףוכ׳ how is it? can the first cut be combined with the second to effect &c? Naz.32b אילו … מי הוה נדריתון if one had come … would you have vowed? Ib. מי יודעין לאימתי did they know when? Ib. מי ידעין בהיוכ׳ did they know on what day?Pes.14b, a. fr. מי דמי (sub. הא להא) is there an analogy between the two cases?; v. דְּמֵי I; a. v. fr.
Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature. Jastrow, Marcus. 1903.