Jastrow: מִי II

מִי II h. a. ch. (b. h.) 1) who?; which?; he who. M. Kat. 16ᵇ ראה מי קורא וכ׳ 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 שמת וכ׳ he who (if one) died and left &c. Ib. VI, 7 מי שהיתה דרך וכ׳ he through whose field there is a public passage. Ib. 6 מי שיש לו גינה וכ׳ he who has a garden &c.; 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 יגלה וכ׳, v. גָּלָה. Pes. 49ᵇ מי יתן לי ת"ח וכ׳ Oh that I had a scholar before me, and I would &c.; a. fr. —3) [is there any?; in gen. introducing a question:] is there?, does he? &c. Sabb. 31ᵃ מי כאן הלל does Hillel live here? Ḥull. 33ᵃ מי איכא מידי וכ׳ is there anything which is permitted &c. Ber. 34ᵃ top, v. חַבְרוּתָא. Ḥull. 32ᵇ מהו מי מצטרף וכ׳ 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 בהי וכ׳ 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.