The Hebrew min (מִין) means "kind," "species," or "type" — the biological category used in the Genesis creation account to describe God's ordering of living things. The phrase lemino or lemineihu ("according to its/their kind") appears ten times in Genesis 1 alone. God created plants, animals, and sea creatures each "according to its kind" — establishing that created things reproduce within established categories.
The repeated phrase "according to its kind" (lemino) in Genesis 1 is theologically significant for several reasons. It demonstrates God's ordering of creation into distinct, reproducible categories — the cosmos is not chaos but ordered diversity. Each "kind" reflects a specific creative intention. The emphasis on boundaries and kinds also undergirds the broader biblical theme of holiness as distinction and separation: just as species have their kinds, Israel is to be a distinct people. The term min has also been central to modern discussions of creation and biology, with "baramin" (from bara + min) used to describe created kinds in creationist taxonomy.