Lexical Definition

‎מִין‎ mîyn (meen) kind ^H:N-M
from an unused root meaning to portion out

kind. Compare ‎מִן‎.

• a sort, i.e. species

1) kind, sometimes a species (usually of animals)
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Groups of living organisms belong in the same created "kind" if they have descended from the same ancestral gene pool. This does not preclude new species because this represents a partitioning of the original gene pool. Information is lost or conserved not gained. A new species could arise when a population is isolated and inbreeding occurs. By this definition a new species is not a new "kind" but a further partitioning of an existing "kind".

See Greek: γένος · μέρος · ὁμοιότης · πλήν · πρότερον

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[‎מִין‎] noun [masculine] kind, species (Late Hebrew id. (Eccl 43:25 id.), also schismatic, heretic; Jewish-Aramaic ‎מִינָא‎, species; Palestinian Syriac = nation PS²⁰⁹⁴ Schw^{Idioticon 50}; yet not Aramaic loan-word in Hebrew; see Lag^{BN 183 f.}); — always suffix + preposition ‎לְמִינֵהוּ‎ Gen 1:12 (twice in verse) + 2 t.; ‎לְמִינוֺ‎ Gen 1:11 (omitted by ᵐ5) + 3 t.; ‎לְמִינָהּ‎ Gen 1:24 (twice in verse) + 9 t.; ‎לְמִינָהֿ‎ Ezek 47:10 (strike out Co); ‎לְמִינֵהֶם‎ Gen 1:21 — kind, species, of plant Gen 1:11; Gen 1:12 (twice in verse); usually of animal (beast, bird, fish, insect) Gen 1:21; Gen 1:22; Gen 1:24 (twice in verse); Gen 1:25 (3 t. in verse); Gen 6:20 (3 t. in verse); Gen 7:14 (4 t. in verse); Lev 11:14; Lev 11:15; Lev 11:16; Lev 11:19; Lev 11:22 (4 t. in verse); Lev 11:29 (all P); also Deut 14:13; Deut 14:14; Deut 14:15; Deut 14:18 (compare Leviticus) Ezek 47:10 (on text, compare Co).

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