מֵאָה
hundred
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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.
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Nehemiah 46 verses
- Nehemiah 7:9 מֵא֖וֹת adj Cardinal number bp The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy-two.
- Nehemiah 7:10 מֵא֖וֹת adj Cardinal number bp The children of Arah, six hundred fifty-two.
- Nehemiah 7:11 מֵא֖וֹת adj Cardinal number bp The children of Pahath-moab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand eight hundred [and] eighteen.
- Nehemiah 7:12 מָאתַ֖יִם adj Cardinal number bd The children of Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four.
- Nehemiah 7:13 מֵא֖וֹת adj Cardinal number bp The children of Zattu, eight hundred forty-five.
- Nehemiah 7:14 מֵא֖וֹת adj Cardinal number bp The children of Zaccai, seven hundred sixty.
- Nehemiah 7:15 מֵא֖וֹת adj Cardinal number bp The children of Binnui, six hundred forty-eight.
- Nehemiah 7:16 מֵא֖וֹת adj Cardinal number bp The children of Bebai, six hundred twenty-eight.
- Nehemiah 7:17 מֵא֖וֹת adj Cardinal number bp The children of Azgad, two thousand three hundred twenty-two.
- Nehemiah 7:18 מֵא֖וֹת adj Cardinal number bp The children of Adonikam, six hundred sixty-seven.
- Nehemiah 7:20 מֵא֖וֹת adj Cardinal number bp The children of Adin, six hundred fifty-five.
- Nehemiah 7:22 מֵא֖וֹת adj Cardinal number bp The children of Hashum, three hundred Twenty-eight.
- Nehemiah 7:23 מֵא֖וֹת adj Cardinal number bp The children of Bezai, three hundred twenty-four.
- Nehemiah 7:24 מֵאָ֖ה adj Cardinal number bs The children of Hariph, one hundred twelve.
- Nehemiah 7:26 מֵאָ֖ה adj Cardinal number bs The men of Bethlehem and Netophah, one hundred eighty-eight.
- Nehemiah 7:27 מֵאָ֖ה adj Cardinal number bs The men of Anathoth, one hundred twenty-eight.
- Nehemiah 7:29 מֵא֖וֹת adj Cardinal number bp The men of Kiriath Jearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred forty-three.
- Nehemiah 7:30 מֵא֖וֹת adj Cardinal number bp The men of Ramah and Geba, six hundred twenty-one.
- Nehemiah 7:31 מֵאָ֖ה adj Cardinal number bs The men of Michmas, one hundred and twenty-two.
- Nehemiah 7:32 מֵאָ֖ה adj Cardinal number bs The men of Bethel and Ai, a hundred twenty-three.
- Nehemiah 7:34 מָאתַ֖יִם adj Cardinal number bd The children of the other Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four.
- Nehemiah 7:35 מֵא֖וֹת adj Cardinal number bp The children of Harim, three hundred twenty.
- Nehemiah 7:36 מֵא֖וֹת adj Cardinal number bp The children of Jericho, three hundred forty-five.
- Nehemiah 7:37 מֵא֖וֹת adj Cardinal number bp The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred twenty-one.
- Nehemiah 7:38 מֵא֖וֹת adj Cardinal number bp The children of Senaah, three thousand nine hundred thirty.
- Nehemiah 7:39 מֵא֖וֹת adj Cardinal number bp The priests: The children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy-three.
- Nehemiah 7:41 מָאתַ֖יִם adj Cardinal number bd The children of Pashhur, one thousand two hundred forty-seven.
- Nehemiah 7:44 מֵאָ֖ה adj Cardinal number bs The singers: the children of Asaph, one hundred forty-eight.
- Nehemiah 7:45 מֵאָ֖ה adj Cardinal number bs The porters: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, one hundred thirty-eight.
- Nehemiah 7:60 מֵא֖וֹת adj Cardinal number bp All the Nethinim, and the children of Solomon's servants, were three hundred ninety-two.
- Nehemiah 7:62 מֵא֖וֹת adj Cardinal number bp The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred forty-two.
- Nehemiah 7:66 מֵא֥וֹת adj Cardinal number bp The whole assembly together was forty-two thousand three hundred sixty,
- Nehemiah 7:67 מֵא֖וֹת מָאתַ֖יִם adj Cardinal number bp adj Cardinal number bd besides their men-servants and their maid-servants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty-seven: and they had two hundred forty-five singing men and singing women.
- Nehemiah 7:68 מֵא֖וֹת מֵא֖וֹת adj Cardinal number bp adj Cardinal number bp Their horses were seven hundred thirty-six; their mules, two hundred forty-five;
- Nehemiah 7:69 מאות מאות adj Cardinal number bp adj Cardinal number bp [their] camels, four hundred thirty-five; [their] donkeys, six thousand seven hundred twenty.
- Nehemiah 7:70 מֵאֽוֹת adj Cardinal number bp Some from among the heads of fathers' [houses] gave to the work. The governor gave to the treasury one thousand darics of gold, fifty basins, and five hundred thirty priests' garments.
- Nehemiah 7:71 וּ/מָאתָֽיִם conj + Adjective Cardinal number bd Some of the heads of fathers' [houses] gave into the treasury of the work twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand two hundred minas of silver.
- Nehemiah 11:6 מֵא֛וֹת adj Cardinal number bp All the sons of Perez who lived in Jerusalem were four hundred sixty-eight valiant men.
- Nehemiah 11:8 מֵא֖וֹת adj Cardinal number bp After him Gabbai, Sallai, nine hundred twenty-eight.
- Nehemiah 11:12 מֵא֖וֹת adj Cardinal number bp and their brothers who did the work of the house, eight hundred twenty-two; and Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the son of Pelaliah, the son of Amzi, the son of Zechariah, the son of Pashhur, the son of Malchijah,
- Nehemiah 11:13 מָאתַ֖יִם adj Cardinal number bd and his brothers, chiefs of fathers' [houses], two hundred forty-two; and Amashsai the son of Azarel, the son of Ahzai, the son of Meshillemoth, the son of Immer,
- Nehemiah 11:14 מֵאָ֖ה adj Cardinal number bs and their brothers, mighty men of valor, one hundred twenty-eight; and their overseer was Zabdiel, the son of Haggedolim.
- Nehemiah 11:18 מָאתַ֖יִם adj Cardinal number bd All the Levites in the holy city were two hundred eighty-four.
- Nehemiah 11:19 מֵאָ֖ה adj Cardinal number bs Moreover the porters, Akkub, Talmon, and their brothers, who kept watch at the gates, were one hundred seventy-two.
Esther 6 verses
- Esther 1:1 וּ/מֵאָ֖ה conj + Adjective Cardinal number bs Now it happened in the days of Ahasuerus (this is Ahasuerus who reigned from India even to Ethiopia, over one hundred twenty-seven provinces),
- Esther 8:9 וּ/מֵאָה֙ conj + Adjective Cardinal number bs Then were the king's scribes called at that time, in the third month Sivan, on the three and twentieth [day] of it; and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded to the Jews, and to the satraps, and the governors and princes of the provinces which are from India to Ethiopia, one hundred twenty-seven provinces, to every province according to the writing of it, and to every people after their language, and to the Jews according to their writing, and according to their language.
- Esther 9:6 מֵא֖וֹת adj Cardinal number bp In Shushan the palace the Jews killed and destroyed five hundred men.
- Esther 9:12 מֵא֣וֹת adj Cardinal number bp The king said to Esther the queen, The Jews have slain and destroyed five hundred men in Shushan the palace, and the ten sons of Haman; what then have they done in the rest of the king's provinces! Now what is your petition? and it shall be granted you: or what is your request further? and it shall be done.
- Esther 9:15 מֵא֖וֹת adj Cardinal number bp The Jews who were in Shushan gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and killed three hundred men in Shushan; but they didn't lay their hand on the spoil.
- Esther 9:30 וּ/מֵאָה֙ conj + Adjective Cardinal number bs He sent letters to all the Jews, to the hundred twenty-seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, [with] words of peace and truth,
Job 2 verses
- Job 1:3 מֵא֤וֹת מֵא֣וֹת adj Cardinal number bp adj Cardinal number bp His possessions also were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred she-donkeys, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the east.
- Job 42:16 מֵאָ֥ה adj Cardinal number bs After this Job lived one hundred forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, to four generations.
Proverbs 1 verse
Ecclesiastes 1 verse
Song of Solomon 1 verse
Isaiah 2 verses
- Isaiah 37:36 מֵאָ֛ה adj Cardinal number bs The angel of Yahweh went forth, and struck in the camp of the Assyrians one hundred and eighty-five thousand; and when men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
- Isaiah 65:20 מֵאָ֤ה מֵאָ֥ה adj Cardinal number bs adj Cardinal number bs There shall be no more there an infant of days, nor an old man who has not filled his days; for the child shall die one hundred years old, and the sinner being one hundred years old shall be accursed.
Jeremiah 3 verses
- Jeremiah 52:23 מֵאָ֛ה adj Cardinal number bs There were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides; all the pomegranates were one hundred on the network round about.
- Jeremiah 52:29 מֵא֖וֹת adj Cardinal number bp in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty-two persons;
- Jeremiah 52:30 מֵא֖וֹת מֵאֽוֹת adj Cardinal number bp adj Cardinal number bp in the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty-five persons: all the persons were four thousand and six hundred.
Ezekiel 24 verses
- Ezekiel 4:5 מֵא֥וֹת adj Cardinal number bp For I have appointed the years of their iniquity to be to you a number of days, even three hundred ninety days: so shall you bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.
- Ezekiel 4:9 מֵא֧וֹת adj Cardinal number bp Take for yourself also wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel, and make you bread of it; [according to] the number of the days that you shall lie on your side, even three hundred ninety days, shall you eat of it.
- Ezekiel 40:19 מֵאָ֣ה adj Cardinal number bs Then he measured the breadth from the forefront of the lower gate to the forefront of the inner court outside, one hundred cubits, [both] on the east and on the north.
- Ezekiel 40:23 מֵאָ֥ה adj Cardinal number bs There was a gate to the inner court over against the [other] gate, [both] on the north and on the east; and he measured from gate to gate one hundred cubits.
- Ezekiel 40:27 מֵאָ֥ה adj Cardinal number bs There was a gate to the inner court toward the south: and he measured from gate to gate toward the south a hundred cubits.
- Ezekiel 40:47 מֵאָ֣ה מֵאָ֥ה adj Cardinal number bs adj Cardinal number bs He measured the court, one hundred cubits long, and a hundred cubits broad, foursquare; and the altar was before the house.
- Ezekiel 41:13 מֵאָ֣ה מֵאָ֥ה adj Cardinal number bs adj Cardinal number bs So he measured the house, one hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with the walls of it, one hundred cubits long;
- Ezekiel 41:14 מֵאָ֥ה adj Cardinal number bs also the breadth of the face of the house, and of the separate place toward the east, one hundred cubits.
- Ezekiel 41:15 מֵאָ֣ה adj Cardinal number bs He measured the length of the building before the separate place which was at the back of it, and the galleries of it on the one side and on the other side, one hundred cubits; and the inner temple, and the porches of the court;
- Ezekiel 42:2 הַ/מֵּאָ֔ה ptcl def.art + Adjective Cardinal number bs Before the length of one hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits.
- Ezekiel 42:8 מֵאָ֥ה adj Cardinal number bs For the length of the chambers that were in the outer court was fifty cubits: and, behold, before the temple were one hundred cubits.
- Ezekiel 42:16 מֵא֥וֹת adj Cardinal number bp He measured on the east side with the measuring reed five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.
- Ezekiel 42:17 מֵא֥וֹת adj Cardinal number bp He measured on the north side five hundred reeds with the measuring reed round about.
- Ezekiel 42:18 מֵא֥וֹת adj Cardinal number bp He measured on the south side five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.
- Ezekiel 42:19 מֵא֥וֹת adj Cardinal number bp He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.
- Ezekiel 42:20 מֵא֔וֹת מֵא֑וֹת adj Cardinal number bp adj Cardinal number bp He measured it on the four sides: it had a wall round about, the length five hundred, and the breadth five hundred, to make a separation between that which was holy and that which was common.
- Ezekiel 45:2 מֵא֛וֹת מֵא֖וֹת adj Cardinal number bp adj Cardinal number bp Of this there shall be for the holy place five hundred [in length] by five hundred [in breadth], square round about; and fifty cubits for the suburbs of it round about.
- Ezekiel 45:15 הַ/מָּאתַ֨יִם֙ ptcl def.art + Adjective Cardinal number bd and one lamb of the flock, out of two hundred, from the well-watered pastures of Israel; -for a meal-offering, and for a burnt offering, and for peace-offerings, to make atonement for them, says the Lord Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 48:16 מֵאוֹת֙ מֵא֖וֹת מֵאוֹת֙ מֵא֖וֹת adj Cardinal number bp adj Cardinal number bp adj Cardinal number bp adj Cardinal number bp These shall be the measures of it: the north side four thousand and five hundred, and the south side four thousand and five hundred, and on the east side four thousand and five hundred, and the west side four thousand and five hundred.
- Ezekiel 48:17 וּ/מָאתַ֔יִם וּ/מָאתָ֑יִם וּ/מָאתַ֔יִם וּ/מָאתָֽיִם conj + Adjective Cardinal number bd conj + Adjective Cardinal number bd conj + Adjective Cardinal number bd conj + Adjective Cardinal number bd The city shall have suburbs: toward the north two hundred fifty, and toward the south two hundred fifty, and toward the east two hundred fifty, and toward the west two hundred fifty.
- Ezekiel 48:30 מֵא֛וֹת adj Cardinal number bp These are the exits of the city: On the north side four thousand and five hundred [reeds] by measure;
- Ezekiel 48:32 מֵאוֹת֙ adj Cardinal number bp At the east side four thousand and five hundred [reeds], and three gates: even the gate of Joseph, one; the gate of Benjamin, one; the gate of Dan, one.
- Ezekiel 48:33 מֵא֜וֹת adj Cardinal number bp At the south side four thousand and five hundred [reeds] by measure, and three gates: the gate of Simeon, one; the gate of Issachar, one; the gate of Zebulun, one.
- Ezekiel 48:34 מֵאוֹת֙ adj Cardinal number bp At the west side four thousand and five hundred [reeds], with their three gates: the gate of Gad, one; the gate of Asher, one; the gate of Naphtali, one.
Daniel 3 verses
- Daniel 8:14 מֵא֑וֹת adj Cardinal number bp He said to me, To two thousand and three hundred evenings [and] mornings; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.
- Daniel 12:11 מָאתַ֥יִם adj Cardinal number bd From the time that the continual [burnt offering] shall be taken away, and the abomination that makes desolate set up, there shall be one thousand two hundred ninety days.
- Daniel 12:12 מֵא֖וֹת adj Cardinal number bp Blessed is he who waits, and comes to the one thousand three hundred thirty-five days.
Amos 1 verse
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At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
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.
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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
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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.
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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
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