מִנְיָן

n. [m.] number;—cstr. מ׳ Ezr 6:17.

number, count; ballot, vote. B. Mets. 6ᵇ; Bekh. 59ᵇ, a. e. מ׳ הראוי פוטר a count properly begun redeems, i.e. if one began to count ten or more animals for tithing purposes, and during the count one animal died or ran off, those which passed the rod are redeemed. Ib. איפטרו להו במ׳ הראוי they were redeemed by means of the (interrupted) count properly begun.—רוב המ׳, רוב מִנְיָנוֹ, v. בִּנְיָן.—Bets. 3ᵇ דבר שישנו במ׳ Ms. M. (ed. דבר שבמ׳); Zeb. 73ᵃ דבר שיש בו מ׳ objects sold by the piece.—Y. Ber. I, 3ᵃ top נעמוד על המ׳ let us decide by vote; Tosef. Ohol. IV, 2 נעמוד למ׳. Eduy. I, 5, a. fr. גדול … בחכמה ובמ׳ superior to a previous meeting of scholars in learning and numbers. Bets. 5ᵃ כל דבר שבמ׳ צריך מ׳ וכ׳ a prohibitory measure passed by ballot, requires another ballot to be abrogated (although the reason for the measure has ceased to exist). Snh. 26ᵃ קשר … אינו מן המ׳ a measure passed in a meeting of wicked men does not count (deserves no consideration on the part of successors). Ḥull. 97ᵇ אין … מן המ׳ does not count, is not included.—Num. R. s. 1 במִנְיַן ישראל at the census of the Israelites in the desert; a. fr.—[In later Hebrew: מ׳ the requisite number of males for congregational worship.]