מֵאָה
mêʼâh · may-aw'
a hundred; also as a multiplicative and a fraction
Lexicon
Derivation: or מֵאיָה; properly, a primitive numeral
a hundred; also as a multiplicative and a fraction
- a hundred
- also, as a multiplicative and a fraction
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: hundred((-fold), -th), [phrase] sixscore.
Letters
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- אAlef1
Picture: ox head
- Concrete
- ox · bull · cattle
- Extended
- strength · leader · first · the one in front
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
water, chaos, the mighty deep › strength, the leader › to reveal, behold
Water, chaos, the mighty deep of strength, the leader that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of מֵאָה above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
581 occurrences · 581 OT · 0 NT · 109 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- hundred303 · 57%
- an hundred70 · 13%
- two hundred39 · 7%
- and an hundred12 · 2%
- and two hundred12 · 2%
- were an hundred11 · 2%
- of hundreds10 · 2%
- was an hundred9 · 2%
- whereof was an hundred8 · 2%
- of an hundred8 · 2%
- over hundreds6 · 1%
- for an hundred5 · 1%
- and with him two hundred4 · 1%
- being an hundred4 · 1%
- were two hundred4 · 1%
- and of hundreds3 · 1%
- and one hundred3 · 1%
- and with him an hundred3 · 1%
- and hundreds3 · 1%
- the eleven hundred2 · 0%
- thereof was an hundred2 · 0%
- even two hundred2 · 0%
- of the hundred2 · 0%
- hundredth2 · 0%
- shall be an hundred2 · 0%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.