Hundred
מְאָהStrong’s H3969meah (me-ah)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Meah is the Aramaic word usually translated “one hundred”, “two hundred” and “hundred”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom an hundred and twenty princes, which should be over the whole kingdom;”
Meaning
- Hundred, one hundred
How it's translated
- one hundred 6
- two hundred 1
- hundred 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezra 2
- Daniel 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Ezra 6:17And offered at the dedication of this house of God an hundred bullocks, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs; and for a sin offering for all Israel, twelve he goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel.
- Ezra 7:22Unto an hundred talents of silver, and to an hundred measures of wheat, and to an hundred baths of wine, and to an hundred baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much.
Aramaic dictionary
מְאָה meah · hundred
hundred, one hundred Aramaic of me.ah (מֵאָה "hundred" H3967)
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.