דַּי

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 Sl 72,7), Est 1,18 וּכְדַי בִּזָּיוֺן וָקָ֑צֶף and (there will be) as enough (i.e. in plenty) contempt and wrath, 2 Kron 30,3 לְמַדַּי = לְמַהדַּֿי for what was sufficient. With a genitive of the person or thing for which anything suffices: 2 Mos 36,5 מִדֵּי הָעֲבֹדָה (more) than enough for the work, 3 Mos 5,7 and if his hand do not reach (if he do not command) דֵּי שֶׂה enough for (i.e. to buy) a lamb, 3 Mos 12,8; 3 Mos 25,28 דֵּי הָשִׁיב לוֺ enough for recovering it, 5 Mos 15,8 דֵּי מַחְסֹרוֺ enough for his need, Es 40,16 (twice in verse). With suffix Ord 25,16 אֱכֹל דַּיֶּ֑ךָּ eat that which is sufficient for thee; דַּיָּם 2 Mos 36,7; Jer 49,9; Ob 1,5. Once with genitive of the thing which is sufficient, Ord 27,27 דֵּי חֲלֵב עִזִּים enough of goats' milk.

2. Combined with בְּ, כְּ, and especially מִן, דַּי (דֵּי) has a tendency to form compound prepositions, used idiomatically in certain applications: —
\ \ a. בְּדֵי (α) for (the בְּ pretii) what suffices for: Nah 2,13 the lion tare in pieces בְּדֵי גֹרוֺתָיו 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 בְּדֵי שׁוֺפָר 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 3 Mos 25,26 and find כְּדֵי גְאֻלָּתוֺ according to the sufficiency of his redemption, i.e. as much as it demands, 5 Mos 25,2; Neh 5,8 כְּדֵי בָנוּ (stative construct before בְּ: Ges^{«GKC:130»§ 130}, 1) 'quantum in nobis erat,' after our ability, Dom 6,5 they came כְּדֵי אַרְבֶּה לָרֹב according to the abundance of the locust in multitude (for which כָּאַרְבֶּה לָרֹב would ordinarily be said: compare Dom 7,12).
\ \ c. מִדֵּי out of the abundance of, hence as often as; — (α) followed by infinitive 1 Sam 1,7 מִדֵּי עֲלֹתָהּ = as often as she went up, 1 Sam 18,30; 1 Kong 14,28 (= 2 Kron 12,11) 2 Kong 4,8; Es 28,19 מִדֵּי עָבְרוֺ as often as it passeth over, Jer 31,20 (β) followed by substantive, Jer 48,27 מִדֵּי דְבָרֶיךָ בּוֺ as often as thy words (are) of him; and in the idiomatic phrases מִדֵּי שָׁנָה בְּשָׁנָה = yearly (a combination of מִדֵּי שָׁנָה and שָׁנָה בְּשָׁנָה: see below שָׁנָה) 1 Sam 7,16 (see Dr) Zak 14,16; 2 Kron 24,5 and מִדֵּי חֹדֶשׁ בְּחָדְשׁוֺ Es 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 דְּבַר יוֺם בְּיוֺמוֺ): so מִדֵּי שַׁבָּת בְּשַׁבַּתּוֺ ib.; (γ) as conjunction, with the finite verb (אֲשֶׁר being understood: compare בַּעֲבוּר etc.), Jer 20,8 מִדֵּי אֲדַבֵּר as often as I speak.