Study
Word study

Word study

Hebrew

Much

מְאֹדStrong’s H3966

meod (me-od)

Appears in 278 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Meod is the Hebrew word usually translated “exceedingly”, “very” and “muchness”. It appears in 278 verses of the Old Testament.

“Therefore the he goat waxed very great: and when he was strong, the great horn was broken; and for it came up four notable ones toward the four winds of heaven.”
Daniel 8:8 KJV
Meaning
  1. Exceedingly, much
  2. Might, force, abundance
  3. Muchness, force, abundance, exceedinglyforce, might · exceedingly, greatly, very (idioms showing magnitude or degree)
How it's translated
  • exceedingly 153
  • very 111
  • muchness 24
  • with muchness 6
  • much 2
  • strength your 1
  • strength his 1
  • very many 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Psalms 35
  • Genesis 33
  • 1 Samuel 31
  • 2 Samuel 18
  • 2 Chronicles 16
  • Joshua 15

28 books in all.

Related words
Explore in Scripture
All 278 verses, by book
Ruth 2
1:131:20
Ezra 1
10:1
Esther 2
1:124:4
Lamentations 1
5:22
Daniel 2
8:811:25
Joel 1
2:11
Obadiah 1
1:2
Nahum 1
2:1
Zephaniah 1
1:14
Hebrew dictionary

מְאֹד meod · much

adv 1) exceedingly, much subst 2) might, force, abundance n m 3) muchness, force, abundance, exceedingly 3a) force, might 3b) exceedingly, greatly, very (idioms showing magnitude or degree) 3b1) exceedingly 3b2) up to abundance, to a great degree, exceedingly 3b3) with muchness, muchness

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “much” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

MUCH, adjective

  1. Great in quantity or amount.“Thou shalt carry much seed into the field, and gather but little in” Deuteronomy 28:38“Manasseh wrought much wickedness in the sight of the Lord to provoke him to anger” 2 Kings 21:6
  2. Long in duration.
  3. Many in number.“Edom came out against him with much people” Numbers 20:20
All definitions and other forms of “much”

    MUCH, adverb

    In a great degree; by far; qualifying adjectives of the comparative degree; as much more, much stronger, much heavier, much more splendid, much higher. So we say, much less, much smaller, much less distinguished, much weaker, much finer.

    1. To a great degree or extent; qualifying verbs and participles.“Jonathan, Saul's son, delighted much in David” 1 Samuel 19:2“It is a night to be much observed” Exodus 12:42“The soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way” Numbers 21:4
    2. Often or long.
    3. Nearly.

    MUCH, noun

    A great quantity; a great deal.

    1. “He that gathered much had nothing over” Exodus 16:18“To whom much is given, of him much shall be required” Luke 12:48
    2. More than enough; a heavy service or burden.
    3. An uncommon thing; something strange.
    4. A certain or suitable quantity.“Then take as much as thy soul desireth” 1 Samuel 2:16
    5. To an equal degree; adverbially.“In all Israel, there was none to be so much praised as Absalom” 2 Samuel 14:25
    6. To fondle.

    Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

    Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.