The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon

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mn p01

In Jewish texts also מין and [as in Hebrew] מִ ; w. pron. suffixes: מִינִּי etc.

  1 from Com. --(a) direction Com. (a.1) place Com. (a.2) person Com. (a.3) as first element of compound prepositions and adverbs indicating the origin of directional movement Com. --(b) origin Com. (b.1) place Com. 1 with words indicating location : e.g. מימין : on the right Com. (b.2) person Com. (b.3) material Com. (b.4) time Com. 1 conj.: since, after : see s.v. mn conj. Com. (b.5) as first element of compound prepositions and adverbs indicating the origin of movement through time Com. (b.6) as the second element of compound prepositions indicating relative location Com.
  2 partitive Com. --(a) indicating a fractional part Syr. (a.1) as a pseudo-substantive : some of Syr.
  3 indicating the agent BA-Ez, Syr.
  4 indicating the cause Com. --(a) conj : because : see s.v. mn conj. .
  5 comparative Com.
  6 : other verbal complements Com.
  7 between repeated absolutes: distributive Syr.
  8 : multiplicative Jud.
  9 : on the side of, with Syr, Man. --(a) as the first element of compound adverbs of manner Com. (a.1) mnh wbh, mnh wlh : of itself, by itself Syr, JBA. --(b) as an emphasizing first element of compound prepositions, conjunctions Com.
  10 : reflexive Syr.

byn p01

byn, byny (bēn, baynay, bēnē) prep. between, among

The distribution of the forms in the Standard literary Aramaic tradition is as follows: The independent form is bēn, but bēnē before plural pronominal suffixes. In PTA, LJLA, and the Babylonian dialects the back-formation ביני becomes the normal independent form. In Syriac onlyܒܲܝܢܲܝ , and this form (as opposed to byt, bynt) is used in our database in older texts almost always only when used in the byny ... l_ construction. In Sam. ביני is relatively rare as an independent form.

  1 between, among Com. --(a) בין ידי : into the hands of (i.e., equivalent to byd elsewhere) PTA, CPA. (a.1) in the possession of CPA, Syr. --(b) לביני : among (allative) JBA. (b.1) מלבין : among a large group, out of Sam. --(c) מביני : from among : see s.v. mn byny .
  2 with two explicit end points Com. --(a) byn ... wbyn ... . --(b) byn ... wl_... Syr.
  3 בין ... בין : whether ... or JLAtg, Gal.