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דַּי substantive sufficiency, enough (Late Hebrew, but not known in other cognate languages) — construct דֵּי, with suffix (see below) דַּיָּם דַּיֶּ֑ךָּ,: —
1 absolute thrice only [Mal 3:10] I will pour you out a blessing עַדבְּֿלִידָֽֿי until there is not sufficiency, i.e. until my abundance can be exhausted, or, as this can never be, for ever (compare [Psa 72:7]), [Est 1:18] וָקָ֑צֶף בִּזָּיוֺן וּכְדַי and (there will be) as enough (i.e. in plenty) contempt and wrath, [2Chr 30:3] לְמַדַּי = לְמַהדַּֿי for what was sufficient. With a Genitive of the person or thing for which anything suffices: [Exod 36:5] הָעֲבֹדָה מִדֵּי (more) than enough for the work, [Lev 5:7] and if his hand do not reach (if he do not command) שֶׂה דֵּי enough for (i.e. to buy) a lamb, [12:8]; [25:28] לוֺ הָשִׁיב דֵּי enough for recovering it, [Deut 15:8] מַחְסֹרוֺ דֵּי enough for his need, [Isa 40:16] (twice in verse). With suffix [Prov 25:16] דַּיֶּ֑ךָּ אֱכֹל eat that which is sufficient for thee; דַּיָּם [Exod 36:7]; [Jer 49:9]; Obadiah 5.. Once with Genitive of the thing which is sufficient, [Prov 27:27] עִזִּים חֲלֵב דֵּי enough of goats' milk.
2 Combined with כְּ בְּ,, and especially דַּי מִן, (דֵּי) has a tendency to form compound prepositions, used idiomatically in certain applications: —
a. בְּדֵי (α) for (the בְּ pretii) what suffices for: [Nahum 2:13] the lion tare in pieces גֹרוֺתָיו בְּדֵי for the need of his whelps (|| לְלִבְאֹתָיו; but ? כְּדֵי, see b); iron. [Hab 2:13]; [Jer 51:58] the peoples labour בְּדֵיאֵֿשׁ for fire (only to satisfy the fire), and the nations weary themselves בְּדֵירִֿיק for what is empty. (β) in the abundance of, i.e. as often as [Job 39:25] שׁוֺפָר בְּדֵי in the abundance of the trumpet, i.e. as often as the trumpet sounds (מִדֵּי elsewhere in this sense).
b. כְּדֵי according to the sufficiency, or abundance, of [Lev 25:26] and find גְאֻלָּתוֺ כְּדֵי according to the sufficiency of his redemption, i.e. as much as it demands, [Deut 25:2]; [Neh 5:8] בָנוּ כְּדֵי (stative construct before בְּ: Ges§ 130, 1) 'quantum in nobis erat,' after our ability, [Judg 6:5] they came לָרֹב אַרְבֶּה כְּדֵי according to the abundance of the locust in multitude (for which לָרֹב כָּאַרְבֶּה would ordinarily be said: compare [7:12]).
c. מִדֵּי out of the abundance of, hence as often as; — (α) followed by infinitive [1Sam 1:7] עֲלֹתָהּ מִדֵּי = as often as she went up, [18:30]; [1Kin 14:28] (= [2Chr 12:11]) [2Kin 4:8]; [Isa 28:19] עָבְרוֺ מִדֵּי as often as it passeth over, [Jer 31:20]; (β) followed by substantive, [48:27] בּוֺ דְבָרֶיךָ מִדֵּי as often as thy words (are) of him; and in the idiomatic phrases בְּשָׁנָה שָׁנָה מִדֵּי = yearly (a combination of שָׁנָה מִדֵּי and בְּשָׁנָה שָׁנָה: see below שָׁנָה) [1Sam 7:16] (see Dr) [Zech 14:16]; [2Chr 24:5]; and בְּחָדְשׁוֺ חֹדֶשׁ מִדֵּי [Isa 66:23] as often as month (comes) in its month (i.e. in its own time: חֹדֶשׁ made more precise by the add. of בְּחָדְשׁוֺ; compare the phrase בְּיוֺמוֺ יוֺם דְּבַר): so בְּשַׁבַּתּוֺ שַׁבָּת מִדֵּי ib.; (γ) as conjunction, with the finite verb (אֲשֶׁר being understood: compare בַּעֲבוּר etc.), [Jer 20:8] אֲדַבֵּר מִדֵּי as often as I speak.
מַדַּי (i.e. מַהדַּֿי) [2Chr 30:3], see מה
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מִדֵּי see דַּי.
מְדִינָה מִדְיָן, see דין.
מִדְיָנִים see I. מדון. מְדֹכָה see דוך.
מַדְמֵן, I, II. מַדְמַנָּה מַדְמֵנָה, see דמן.
מְדָן see דין. מְדָנִים see מִדְיָנִי מדון,.
מֹדַ֫עַת מֹדַע, מַדַּע, see ידע.
[מַדְקָרָה], plural construct מַדְקְרוֺת see דקר.
מַדְרֵגָה see דרג. מְדֻרָה see דור.
[מִדְרָךְ] see דרך. [מִדְרָשׁ] see דרשׁ.
[מְדֻשָׁה] see דושׁ.