מֵאָה meah

Hebrew word for “hundred” · Strong’s H3967 · used 581 times in 512 verses

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Meaning

1) hundred; 1a) as simple number;

How it is translated

Glosses given for meah in context, with how often each is used:

• hundreds 326
• one hundred 140
• two hundred 72
• hundred 28
• hundred cubits 4
• two hundred cubits 4
• will be one hundred 3
• hundred times 2
• one hundred children 1
• two hundred shekels 1

Where it is used

Also in 13 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Ezra 2 (38), Nehemiah 7 (38), Genesis 5 (24), Numbers 2 (17), Numbers 7 (14), Numbers 26 (14), Numbers 1 (13), Numbers 31 (11), Genesis 11 (10), 1 Chronicles 12 (9)

Forms

• מאות 303
• מאה 100
• מאתים 47
• ומאה 34
• ומאתים 28
• ומאת 16
• מאת 16
• המאות 16
• והמאות 6
• במאה 5

Words used with it

Words that share verses with meah more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• אֶלֶף eleph “thousand” 191
• חָמֵשׁ chamesh “five” 90
• שָׁלֹשׁ shalosh “three” 95
• שֵׁשׁ shesh “six” 81
• אַרְבַּע arba “four” 79
• חֲמִשִּׁים chamishshim “fifty” 65
• עֶשְׂרִים esrim “twenty” 71
• שֶׁבַע sheva “seven” 69
• שְׁלֹשִׁים sheloshim “thirty” 58
• שָׁנָה shaneh “year” 80
• פָּקַד paqad “to reckon” 64
• שְׁנַיִם shenayim “two” 62

Key verses

The verses using meah that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Genesis 5:22 — And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
• Genesis 14:14 — And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them…
• Genesis 47:9 — And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been,…
• Exodus 18:21 — Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of…
• Joshua 7:21 — When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them,…
• 1 Kings 18:4 — For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread…
• 1 Kings 22:6 — Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said unto them, Shall I go against Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I…
• 2 Chronicles 5:12 — Also the Levites which were the singers, all of them of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, being arrayed in white linen, having…
• Job 1:3 — His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household;…
• Ecclesiastes 6:3 — If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no…
• Ecclesiastes 8:12 — Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him:
• Isaiah 37:36 — Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.