מֵאָה
hundred
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Both
- Attested as both masculine and feminine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
- Singular
- One.
- Dual
- Exactly two — for natural pairs and some measures of time.
Every verse where H3967 appears in the Book of Genesis — 63 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Genesis
- Genesis 5:3 וּ/מְאַת֙ conj + Adjective Cardinal number bs cs Adam lived one hundred thirty years, and became the father of a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.
- Genesis 5:4 מֵאֹ֖ת adj Cardinal number bp The days of Adam after he became the father of Seth were eight hundred years, and he became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 5:5 מֵאוֹת֙ adj Cardinal number bp All the days that Adam lived were nine hundred thirty years, then he died.
- Genesis 5:6 וּ/מְאַ֣ת conj + Adjective Cardinal number bs cs Seth lived one hundred five years, and became the father of Enosh.
- Genesis 5:7 מֵא֖וֹת adj Cardinal number bp Seth lived after he became the father of Enosh eight hundred seven years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 5:8 מֵא֖וֹת adj Cardinal number bp All the days of Seth were nine hundred twelve years, then he died.
- Genesis 5:10 מֵא֖וֹת adj Cardinal number bp Enosh lived after he became the father of Kenan, eight hundred fifteen years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 5:11 מֵא֖וֹת adj Cardinal number bp All the days of Enosh were nine hundred five years, then he died.
- Genesis 5:13 מֵא֖וֹת adj Cardinal number bp Kenan lived after he became the father of Mahalalel eight hundred forty years, and became the father of sons and daughters
- Genesis 5:14 מֵא֖וֹת adj Cardinal number bp and all the days of Kenan were nine hundred ten years, then he died.
- Genesis 5:16 מֵא֖וֹת adj Cardinal number bp Mahalalel lived after he became the father of Jared eight hundred thirty years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 5:17 מֵא֖וֹת adj Cardinal number bp All the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred ninety-five years, then he died.
- Genesis 5:18 וּ/מְאַ֣ת conj + Adjective Cardinal number bs cs Jared lived one hundred sixty-two years, and became the father of Enoch.
- Genesis 5:19 מֵא֖וֹת adj Cardinal number bp Jared lived after he became the father of Enoch eight hundred years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 5:20 מֵא֖וֹת adj Cardinal number bp All the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty-two years, then he died.
- Genesis 5:22 מֵא֖וֹת adj Cardinal number bp Enoch walked with God after he became the father of Methuselah three hundred years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 5:23 מֵא֖וֹת adj Cardinal number bp all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty-five years.
- Genesis 5:25 וּ/מְאַ֣ת conj + Adjective Cardinal number bs cs Methuselah lived one hundred eighty-seven years, and became the father of Lamech.
- Genesis 5:26 מֵא֖וֹת adj Cardinal number bp Methuselah lived after he became the father of Lamech seven hundred eighty-two years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 5:27 מֵא֖וֹת adj Cardinal number bp All the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty-nine years, then he died.
- Genesis 5:28 וּ/מְאַ֣ת conj + Adjective Cardinal number bs cs Lamech lived one hundred eighty-two years, and became the father of a son,
- Genesis 5:30 מֵאֹ֖ת adj Cardinal number bp Lamech lived after he became the father of Noah five hundred ninety-five years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 5:31 מֵא֖וֹת adj Cardinal number bp All the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy-seven years, then he died.
- Genesis 5:32 מֵא֖וֹת adj Cardinal number bp Noah was five hundred years old, and Noah became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
- Genesis 6:3 מֵאָ֥ה adj Cardinal number bs Yahweh said, "My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; yet will his days be one hundred twenty years."
- Genesis 6:15 מֵא֣וֹת adj Cardinal number bp This is how you shall make it. The length of the ark will be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
- Genesis 7:6 מֵא֖וֹת adj Cardinal number bp Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came on the earth.
- Genesis 7:11 מֵא֤וֹת adj Cardinal number bp In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep were burst open, and the sky's windows were opened.
- Genesis 7:24 וּ/מְאַ֖ת conj + Adjective Cardinal number bs cs The waters prevailed on the earth one hundred fifty days.
- Genesis 8:3 וּ/מְאַ֖ת conj + Adjective Cardinal number bs cs The waters receded from off the earth continually. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters decreased.
- Genesis 8:13 מֵא֜וֹת adj Cardinal number bp It happened in the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked. He saw that the surface of the ground was dried.
- Genesis 9:28 מֵאוֹת֙ adj Cardinal number bp Noah lived three hundred fifty years after the flood.
- Genesis 9:29 מֵאוֹת֙ adj Cardinal number bp All the days of Noah were nine hundred fifty years, then he died.
- Genesis 11:10 מְאַ֣ת adj Cardinal number fs cs This is the history of the generations of Shem. Shem was one hundred years old, and became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood.
- Genesis 11:11 מֵא֖וֹת adj Cardinal number bp Shem lived after he became the father of Arpachshad five hundred years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 11:13 מֵא֖וֹת adj Cardinal number bp Arpachshad lived after he became the father of Shelah four hundred three years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 11:15 מֵא֖וֹת adj Cardinal number bp and Shelah lived after he became the father of Eber four hundred three years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 11:17 מֵא֖וֹת adj Cardinal number bp Eber lived after he became the father of Peleg four hundred thirty years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 11:19 וּ/מָאתַ֣יִם conj + Adjective Cardinal number bd Peleg lived after he became the father of Reu two hundred nine years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 11:21 וּ/מָאתַ֣יִם conj + Adjective Cardinal number bd Reu lived after he became the father of Serug two hundred seven years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 11:23 מָאתַ֣יִם adj Cardinal number bd Serug lived after he became the father of Nahor two hundred years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 11:25 וּ/מְאַ֣ת conj + Adjective Cardinal number bs cs Nahor lived after he became the father of Terah one hundred nineteen years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 11:32 וּ/מָאתַ֣יִם conj + Adjective Cardinal number bd The days of Terah were two hundred five years. Terah died in Haran.
- Genesis 14:14 מֵא֔וֹת adj Cardinal number bp When Abram heard that his relative was taken captive, he led forth his trained men, born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued as far as Dan.
- Genesis 15:13 מֵא֖וֹת adj Cardinal number bp He said to Abram, "Know for sure that your seed will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.
- Genesis 17:17 מֵאָֽה adj Cardinal number bs Then Abraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, "Will a child be born to him who is one hundred years old? Will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?"
- Genesis 21:5 מְאַ֣ת adj Cardinal number fs cs Abraham was one hundred years old when his son, Isaac, was born to him.
- Genesis 23:1 מֵאָ֥ה adj Cardinal number bs Sarah lived one hundred twenty-seven years. These were the years of Sarah's life.
- Genesis 23:15 מֵאֹ֧ת adj Cardinal number bp "My lord, listen to me. What is a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver between me and you? Therefore bury your dead."
- Genesis 23:16 מֵאוֹת֙ adj Cardinal number bp Abraham listened to Ephron. Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the audience of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the current merchants' standard.
- Genesis 25:7 מְאַ֥ת adj Cardinal number fs cs These are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived: one hundred seventy-five years.
- Genesis 25:17 מְאַ֥ת adj Cardinal number fs cs These are the years of the life of Ishmael: one hundred thirty-seven years. He gave up the spirit and died, and was gathered to his people.
- Genesis 26:12 מֵאָ֣ה adj Cardinal number bs Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. Yahweh blessed him.
- Genesis 32:6 מֵא֥וֹת adj Cardinal number bp The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, "We came to your brother Esau. Not only that, but he comes to meet you, and four hundred men with him."
- Genesis 32:14 מָאתַ֔יִם מָאתַ֖יִם adj Cardinal number bd adj Cardinal number bd two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,
- Genesis 33:1 מֵא֖וֹת adj Cardinal number bp Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men. He divided the children between Leah, Rachel, and to the two handmaids.
- Genesis 33:19 בְּ/מֵאָ֖ה prep + Adjective Cardinal number bs He bought the parcel of ground, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for one hundred pieces of money.
- Genesis 35:28 מְאַ֥ת adj Cardinal number fs cs The days of Isaac were one hundred eighty years.
- Genesis 45:22 מֵא֣וֹת adj Cardinal number bp To all of them he gave each man changes of clothing, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five changes of clothing.
- Genesis 47:9 וּ/מְאַ֖ת conj + Adjective Cardinal number bs cs Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage."
- Genesis 47:28 וּ/מְאַ֖ת conj + Adjective Cardinal number bs cs Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. So the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were one hundred forty-seven years.
- Genesis 50:22 מֵאָ֥ה adj Cardinal number bs Joseph lived in Egypt, he, and his father's house. Joseph lived one hundred ten years.
- Genesis 50:26 מֵאָ֥ה adj Cardinal number bs So Joseph died, being one hundred ten years old, and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
About this entry
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מאה — transliterated mêʼâh — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “hundred.” Translators differ — “hundred” in the King James Version, then “were” (unfoldingWord Literal Text), as the renderings breakdown shows. With 512 verses in 25 books, it is one of the most common word in the Hebrew Bible. It first appears in Genesis 5:3. It is not a single-sense word — see its full sense range. See the sense tree, 512-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H3967 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 512
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 512 distinct verses.
- 25 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 25 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #84
- by frequency
- Top 100 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 84 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 512 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Numbers 85 verses 17%
- Genesis 63 verses 12%
- 2 Chronicles 52 verses 10%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 512 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 204 verses · 40%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 175 verses · 34%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 133 verses · 26%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Hundred 418×, Two hundred 64×, Hundreds 19×
- American Standard Version†: Hundred 409×, Two hundred 66×, Hundreds 22×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Hundred 132×, Hundreds 26×, Two hundred 17×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Were 105×, Years 35×, Hundreds 26×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3967 across 578† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 22 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 3 further occurrences.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H3967 across 577† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 31 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H3967 across 226† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 16 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 352 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H3967 across 313† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 24 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 283 further occurrences.
9 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 9 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
מאה I hundred (NH id.
- 1. as simple number:
- a. abs. sg., (1) foll. by sg. of noun enumerated: מֵאָה קְשִׂיטָה Gn 33:19; Jos 24:32 (both E); מ׳ אִישׁ Ju 7:19; 1 K 18:13; 2 K 4:43; מ׳ אַמָּה 1 K 7:2; Ez 40:19 +; מ׳ כִּכָּר 2 K 23:33; 2 Ch 25:6; 27:5; 36:3; Ezr 8:26; מ׳ אֶלֶף = 100,000 1 K 20:29 + 6 times K Ch; cf. also Gn 17:17 (P), 2 S 8:4; Is 65:20;(×2), and sq. n. coll. רֶכֶב 2 S 8:4 = 1 Ch 18:4, צֹאן 1 K 5:3; (2) less often sq. pl. מֵאָה שְׁעָרִים Gn 26:12 (J), מ׳ פְּעָמִים 2 S 24:3 = 1 Ch 21:3, מ׳ נְבִיאִים 1 K 18:4, etc.; (3) seldom, and late, preceded by n.pl.: הָרִמֹּנִים מֵאָה Je 52:23, אַמּוֹת הַמֵּאָה Ez 42:2, cf. Ezr 2:69; 2 Ch 3:16; 4:8; 29:32; (4) exceptional is כְּלֵי כֶסֶף מֵאָה לְכִכָּרִים Ezr 8:26; also, with ellipsis, מֵאָה כֶסֶף Dt 22:19 (i.e. shekels); מֵאָה קַיִץ 2 S 16:1 (i.e. cakes); (5) מֵאָה without noun enumerated, especially = a hundred (men, persons) Ju 20:10(×2) Am 5:3(×2) Lv 26:8(×2) (H), 1 Ch 12:14; מ׳ Pr 17:10 = 100 (blows), Ec 6:3 = 100 (children), 8:12 = 100 (times).—On Ne 3:1; 12:39 v. infr. e.g. Genesis 33:19
- b. abs. du., (1) foll. by sg., מָאתַיִם אִישׁ 1 S 18:27; 30:10; 2 S 15:11, מ׳ לֶחֶם 1 S 25:18; 2 S 16:1, מ׳ צִנָּה 1 K 10:16 = 2 Ch 9:15, מ׳ אֶלֶף 1 S 15:4 +, מ׳ שָׁנָה Gn 11:23 (P); (2) less often sq. pl. מ׳ שְׁקָלִים Jos 7:21 (JE), 2 S 14:26, מ׳ דְּבֵלִים 1 S 25:18, מ׳ אֲנָשִׁים 1 S 30:21, cf. Ezr 8:4; (3) also preceded by n.pl.: עִזִּים מ׳ Gn 32:15, רְחֵלִים מ׳ v 15 (E), הָרִמּוֹנִים מ׳ 1 K 7:20, cf. 1 Ch 15:8; 2 Ch 29:32; Ezr 2:65; (4) c. ellipsis מ׳ כֶּסֶף Ju 17:4; (5) as pred., רָאשֵׁיהֶם מ׳ 1 Ch 12:32 (v 33 Van d. H.). e.g. 1 Samuel 18:27
- c. abs. pl. מֵא(וֹ)ת:—(1) alone, = hundreds, לְמֵאוֹת 1 S 29:2 by hundreds, so 2 S 18:4 (both + thousands); especially (הַ)מּ׳ שָׂרֵי captains of (the) hundreds Ex 18:21, 25 (E), 2 K 11:4, 9, 10, 15 +; (2) multiplied, sq. noun enumerated, in sg.: שְׁלשׁ מ׳ אִישׁ Ju 7:6 300 men, cf. v 7, 8, 16; 8:4 Ex 12:27 (E), etc.; אַרְבַּע מ׳ שָׁנָה Gn 15:13 (JE) 400 years; חֲמֵשׁ מ׳ אֶלֶף 2 S 24:9 500,000, cf. 2 Ch 13:17; שֵׁשׁ מ׳ רֶכֶב Ex 14:7 (J) 600 chariots; שְׁבַע מ׳ אִישׁ Ju 20:15, 16 700 men; שְׁמֹנֶה מ׳ חָלָל 2 S 23:8 800 slain; תְּשַׁע מ׳ רֶכֶב Ju 4:3, 13 900 chariots; (3) less often sq. n.pl.: שְׁלשׁ מ׳ שׁוּעָלִים Ju 15:4 300 foxes; חֲמֵשׁ מ׳ מֲתוֹנוֹת Jb 1:3 500 she-asses, etc.; (4) rare, and chiefly late, after n.pl. פִּלַגְשִׁים שְׁלשׁ מ׳ 1 K 11:3 300 concubines, cf. 7:42 = 2 Ch 4:13, 1 Ch 4:42; 2 Ch 14:8 etc.; after n.coll. בָּקָר חֲמֵשׁ מ׳ 2 Ch 35:9; (5) rare is חֲמֵשׁ מ׳ בַּשֶּׁקֶל Ex 30:24 (P); (6) ellipsis of n., שְׁלשׁ מ׳ כֶּסֶף Gn 45:22 (E), etc. e.g. 1 Samuel 29:2
- d. cstr. sg., only sq. sg., and late: מְאַת־שָׁנָה Gn 11:10; 21:5; 25:7 (all P) + 25 times P, 2 Ch 25:9; Est 1:4 (DrIntr. 124) (also c. other numerals, v. 2 infr.); מְאַ֖ת Ec 8:12 = 100 times (מֵאָה פְּעָמִים), sc. פַּעַם, or perhaps only appar. cstr. (Köii. 228 cf. Ew§ 269 b. 279 e).—Ne 5:11 v. 3 infr. e.g. Genesis 11:10
- 2. as part of larger number:
- a. usually preceding tens and units, (1) with noun expressed once, or not at all, earlier usage, usually c. וְ before ten if no unit follows, otherwise without וְ before ten (see Köii. 218 ff.); מֵאָה וְעֶשֶׂר שָׂרִים Ju 2:8; שֵׁשׁ מֵאוֹת שִׁשִּׁים וָשֵׁשׁ כִּכָּר 1 K 10:14 666 talents, etc. (exceptions are Ne 7:24 and v 31); (2) chiefly late, with noun and וְ repeated: מֵאָה שָׁנָה וְעֶשְׂרִים שָׁנָה וְשֶׁבַע שָׁנִים Gn 23:1 (P) (cf. ואלף אמה ומאת אמה SI 5, 6 DaExpos. Times, May, 1898). e.g. Judges 2:8
- b. less often, foll. tens and units, chiefly late, c. וְ repeated:—עֶשְׂרִים וּמֵאָה Nu 7:86 (P); שֶׁבַע וּשְׁלשִׁים וּמְאַת שָׁנָה Ex 6:16 (P), etc.; c. noun after ten and after hundred, חָמֵשׁ וְשִׁשִּׁים שָׁנָה וּשְׁלשׁ מֵאוֹת שָׁנָה Gn 5:23 (P), etc.—On these usages v., further, Köii. 217 ff. DaSynt. §§ 36 R. 3, 37 (d) Ges§§ 97, 134 and especially Herner Synt. d. Zahlwörter im AT (1893). e.g. Numbers 7:86
- 3. מְאַת הַכֶּסֶף Ne 5:11 = a hundredth part of the money; but read quite poss. מַשַּׁאת the debt (GeiJüd. Zeitschr. viii. 1870, 227 Gr.) e.g. Nehemiah 5:11
מאה II used as n.pr. of tower on northern wall of Jerus., מִגְדַּל הַמֵּאָה Ne 3
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
I. n.f. hundred (NH id.; MI 20 מאתן (du.); SI5 מאת, מאתים (du.); Ph. מאת, מאתם (du.); Assyrian mê (prob., Dl§ 75), TelAm. me-at WklTelAm. 20; Arabic مِاىَٔةٌ; Sab. מאת, מאתם OsZMG x. 1856, 49; CIS iv. i. 6, 4; 46, 6; מאה EutSin. 457; Ethiopic ምእት:; Aramaic מְאָה, ܡܳܐܐ; Palm. תלת מאה 300 VogPalm. 6, 4; Nab. מאה EutNab 8, 9);—מ׳ Gn 6:3 + 144 times; cstr. מְאַת 5:3 + 30 times (on מְאַת Ec 8:12 v. 1 d infr.); pl. abs. מֵאוֹת Gn 5:9 + 324 times (מֵאֹת only 5:4, 30); המאיות Kt 2 K 11:4 + 3 times 2 K 11; du. מָאתַיִם (-תָ֑יִם) Gn 11:19 + 76 times (but 1 S 18:27 read מֵאָה (מְאַת) 𝔊𝔊 We Dr Kit Bu HPS);—hundred:—
II. n.f. used as n.pr. of tower on northern wall of Jerus., מִגְדַּל הַמֵּאָה Ne 3:1; 12:39.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: properly, a primitive numeral; a hundred
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
מֵאָה
- (b. h.) one hundred. Tosef. Ber. VII (VI), 24 מ׳ מצות one hundred religious acts. Ib. 8; a. v. fr.—Pesik. Vattom., p. 131ᵇ מ׳ חסר שתים ninety-eight; a. fr.—Du. מָאתַיִם. Ex. R. s. 23; Mekh. B’shall., s. 6. Macc. I, 2. Keth. I, 2, v. כְּתוּבָּה; a. fr.—Pl. מֵאוֹת. Macc. 23ᵇ; a. fr.
מְאָה
- Targ. Gen. V, 3, sq.; a. fr.—Du. מָאתַיִן, מָאתָן. Ezra VI, 17.—Targ. Gen. XXXII, 15; a. fr.—Pl. מַאֲוָון. מָאוָן, מְאַוָותָא. Targ. II Sam. XVIII, 4 ed. Lag. (ed. מאתן; corr. acc.). Targ. I Sam. XXIX, 2.—Targ. O. Ex. XVIII, 21 מְאַוָתָא ed. Berl. (oth. ed. מַאֲוָ׳; Y. מַאֲוָו׳); a. fr.—Y. Kil. IX, 32ᵇ bot. תלת מ׳ צומין three hundred fasts; Y. Keth. XII, 35ᵃ bot. מאתן (corr. acc.). Y. Naz. V, end, 54ᵇ תלת מ׳ נזירין three hundred Nazarites; תשע מ׳ קרבנין nine hundred sacrifices; (Y. Ber. VII, 11ᵇ bot.; Gen. R. s. 91 תלת מאה, תשע מאה); a. fr. e.g. Ezra 6:17
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 101 distinct written forms H3967 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
The 60 most common forms are shown; 41 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H3967, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 452 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 512 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 5:3
- Exodus 6:16
- Leviticus 26:8
- Numbers 1:21
- Deuteronomy 1:15
- Joshua 7:21
- Judges 2:8
- 1 Samuel 11:8
- 2 Samuel 2:31
- 1 Kings 5:16
- 2 Kings 3:4
- 1 Chronicles 4:42
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
