מידי

מִידֵי, מִ־ודֵּיm. (cmp. of יֵי, דְּ־ a. מַן or מַאי) 1) (whatever it may be, something, anything. Targ. Job 6:6 (sec. vers.). Targ. II Esth. 1:9.Gitt.56b בעי מינאי מ׳וכ׳ ask something of me that I may grant thee. Hor.13b. דילמא … איכא בי מדרשא מ׳ (Ms. M. מילתא) is perhaps something (a conspiracy against me) going on at college? Snh.38a ולא הוו קאמרי ולא מ׳ and they did not speak at all. Gitt.14a ולא פש גביה ולא מ׳ there was no surplus whatever in his account. Sabb.62b ולא אמר ליה ולא מ׳ and he said nothing to him (did not object). Ib. בל מ׳ דאית ביהוכ׳ whatever is connected with enjoyment. Erub.103b ותו לא מ׳ and there is nothing more to be said against it; a. v. fr.Gen. R. s. 91 אי … טעין לן במדוי דמכסא (ed. Wil. במדיו; read: במידי) if we find that he argues with us about an affair of custom; Yalk. ib. 148 במדוי במכסא (corr. acc.). 2) (cmp. מִי a. כְּלוּם) (is there?) will he, will it? is it? Ab. Zar.53b מ׳ … מיהדר הדור will the war of Joshua come up again?; a. fr.Shebu.20b, a. fr. מ׳ איריא is this an argument?, v. אִרְיָא.מ׳ דהוה אַ־ something which can be placed by the side of, because it is analogous to. Nidd.3a מ׳ דהוה אהרגשתוכ׳ because it is like the sensation of Ḥull.19a; a. fr.(Not to be confounded with מִידֵי out of the power of, v. יָד.