(Tower of) the Hundred
מֵאָהStrong’s H3968meah (me-ah)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Meah is the Hebrew word usually translated “hundred”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brethren the priests, and they builded the sheep gate; they sanctified it, and set up the doors of it; even unto the tower of Meah they sanctified it, unto the tower of Hananeel.”
Meaning
- Combined with mig.dal (מִגְדָּל "Tower" H4026H)
How it's translated
- the hundred 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Nehemiah 2
1 book in all.
Hebrew dictionary
מֵאָה meah · (Tower of) the Hundred
Combined with mig.dal (מִגְדָּל "Tower" H4026H) § Meah = "hundred" a tower on the north rampart of Jerusalem in the wall of Nehemiah
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “hundred” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HUND'RED, adjective
[Latin centum.]
Denoting the product of ten multiplied by ten, or the number of ten times ten; as a hundred men.
All definitions and other forms of “hundred”
HUND'RED, noun
A collection, body or sum, consisting of ten times ten individuals or units; the number 100.
- A division or part of a county in England, supposed to have originally contained a hundred families, or a hundred warriors, or a hundred manors. [But as the word denotes primarily a circuit or division, it is not certin that Alfred's divisions had any reference to that number.]
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.