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me.ah H3967

מֵאָה (me.ah) means “hundred” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

מֵאָה Hebrew · H3967 581 tagged occurrences in 512 verses

Pronunciation guide: may-aw' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H3967

מֵאָה · me.ah · hundred

1) hundred 1a) as simple number 1b) as part of larger number 1c) as a fraction-one one-hundredth (1/100) Aramaic equivalent: me.ah (מְאָה "hundred" H3969)

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

or מֵאיָה; properly, a primitive numeral a hundred; also as a multiplicative and a fraction

KJV glosses: hundred((-fold), -th), [phrase] sixscore.

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How translators render H3967

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BSB rendering counts
Rendering Count
hundred 62
a hundred 25
of hundreds 15
and 10
and of hundreds 9
hundred shekels 8
two hundred 8
men 7
for a hundred 6
of 5
was a hundred 5
and a hundred 4
hundred men 4
is 4
and two hundred 3
in all 3
of a hundred 3
to be a hundred 3
as well as their 2
except a hundred 2
hundred cubits 2
it was a hundred 2
was 2
a hundred children 1
a hundred shekels 1
a hundred strong 1
a hundred times 1
a hundredfold 1
about the hundred 1
along with the percentage 1
and men 1
and the hundred 1
at a hundred 1
by hundreds 1
deeper than a hundred 1
for 1
from the 1
have lasted 1
hundred strong 1
hundreds 1
hundredth 1
out of every hundred 1
shall be a hundred 1
the hundred 1
the two hundred 1
their units of hundreds 1
there were 1
they also brought 1
they also took 1
thousand 1
to be two hundred 1
to reach a hundred 1
took 1
totaled 1
two hundred loaves 1
two hundred shekels 1
was a match for a hundred 1
was also a hundred 1
weighing 1
were a hundred 1
were also a hundred 1
were the two hundred 1
while two hundred 1
will have but a hundred 1
KJV rendering counts
Rendering Count
hundred 303
an hundred 109
two hundred 46
and an hundred 13
and two hundred 11
of hundreds 10
of an hundred 8
over hundreds 6
for an hundred 5
and with him two hundred 4
and hundreds 3
and of hundreds 3
and one hundred 3
and with him an hundred 3
was an hundred 3
by hundreds 2
hundredth 2
of the hundred 2
over the hundreds 2
the eleven hundred 2
a hundred 1
all an hundred 1
also an hundred 1
also the hundredth 1
among them two hundred 1
an hundred times 1
an hundredfold 1
and four hundred 1
and of the hundred 1
and the hundred 1
and they had two hundred 1
and upon them two hundred 1
and with them an hundred 1
at two hundred 1
but an hundred 1
for the hundred 1
for two hundred 1
him in an hundred 1
in an hundred 1
of the hundreds 1
of the two hundred 1
of them an hundred 1
of us eleven hundred 1
out of two hundred 1
over an hundred 1
shall be an hundred 1
sixscore 1
than an hundred 1
the two hundred 1
thereof an hundred 1
thereof on the one side and on the other side an hundred 1
thereof two hundred 1
they be an hundredfold 1
to me for an hundred 1
to the hundred 1
to the two hundred 1
unto him that is an hundred 1
was two hundred 1
were an hundred 1
were two hundred 1
with twelve hundred 1

Verses containing H3967

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  1. Judges 20:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The leaders of all the people and all the tribes of Israel presented themselves in the assembly of God’s people: 400,000 men on foot, armed with swords.

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  2. Judges 20:10 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    We will take ten men out of every hundred from all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred out of every thousand, and a thousand out of every ten thousand, to supply provisions for the army when they go to Gibeah in Benjamin to punish them for the atrocity they have committed in Israel.”

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  3. Judges 20:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    On that day the Benjamites mobilized 26,000 swordsmen from their cities, in addition to the 700 select men of Gibeah.

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  4. Judges 20:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Among all these soldiers there were 700 select left-handers, each of whom could sling a stone at a hair without missing.

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  5. Judges 20:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The Israelites, apart from Benjamin, mobilized 400,000 swordsmen, each one an experienced warrior.

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  6. Judges 20:35 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The LORD defeated Benjamin in the presence of Israel, and on that day the Israelites slaughtered 25,100 Benjamites, all armed with swords.

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  7. Judges 20:47 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But 600 men turned and fled into the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, where they stayed four months.

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  8. Judges 21:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young women who had not had relations with a man, and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan.

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  9. 1 Samuel 11:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And when Saul numbered them at Bezek, there were 300,000 Israelites and 30,000 men of Judah.

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  10. 1 Samuel 13:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then Samuel set out from Gilgal and went up to Gibeah in Benjamin. And Saul numbered the troops who were with him, about six hundred men.

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  11. 1 Samuel 14:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Meanwhile, Saul was staying under the pomegranate tree in Migron on the outskirts of Gibeah. And the troops who were with him numbered about six hundred men,

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  12. 1 Samuel 15:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So Saul summoned the troops and numbered them at Telaim—200,000 foot soldiers and 10,000 men of Judah.

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  13. 1 Samuel 17:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The shaft of his spear was like a weaver’s beam, and its iron point weighed six hundred shekels. In addition, his shield bearer went before him.

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  14. 1 Samuel 18:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Saul replied, “Say to David, ‘The king desires no other dowry but a hundred Philistine foreskins as revenge on his enemies.’” But Saul intended to cause David’s death at the hands of the Philistines.

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  15. 1 Samuel 18:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    David and his men went out and killed two hundred Philistines. He brought their foreskins and presented them as payment in full to become the king’s son-in-law. Then Saul gave his daughter Michal to David in marriage.

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  16. 1 Samuel 22:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And all who were distressed or indebted or discontented rallied around him, and he became their leader. About four hundred men were with him.

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  17. 1 Samuel 22:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then Saul said to his servants, “Listen, men of Benjamin! Is the son of Jesse giving all of you fields and vineyards and making you commanders of thousands or hundreds?

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  18. 1 Samuel 23:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then David and his men, about six hundred strong, set out and departed from Keilah, moving from place to place. When Saul was told that David had escaped from Keilah, he declined to go forth.

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  19. 1 Samuel 25:13 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    And David said to his men, “Strap on your swords!” So David and all his men strapped on their swords, and about four hundred men followed David, while two hundred stayed with the supplies.

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  20. 1 Samuel 25:18 · BSB · 3 occurrences

    Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five butchered sheep, five seahs of roasted grain, a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs. She loaded them on donkeys

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  21. 1 Samuel 27:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So David set out with his six hundred men and went to Achish son of Maoch, the king of Gath.

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  22. 1 Samuel 29:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    As the Philistine leaders marched out with their units of hundreds and thousands, David and his men marched behind them with Achish.

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  23. 1 Samuel 30:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So David and his six hundred men went to the Brook of Besor, where some stayed behind

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  24. 1 Samuel 30:10 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    because two hundred men were too exhausted to cross the brook. But David and four hundred men continued in pursuit.

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  25. 1 Samuel 30:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And David struck them down from twilight until the evening of the next day. Not a man escaped, except four hundred young men who fled, riding off on camels.

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  26. 1 Samuel 30:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When David came to the two hundred men who had been too exhausted to follow him and who were left behind at the Brook of Besor, they came out to meet him and the troops with him. As David approached the men, he greeted them,

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  27. 2 Samuel 2:31 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    but they had struck down 360 Benjamites who were with Abner.

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  28. 2 Samuel 3:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then David sent messengers to say to Ish-bosheth son of Saul, “Give me back my wife, Michal, whom I betrothed to myself for a hundred Philistine foreskins.”

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  29. 2 Samuel 8:4 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    David captured from him a thousand chariots, seven thousand charioteers, and twenty thousand foot soldiers, and he hamstrung all the horses except a hundred he kept for the chariots.

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  30. 2 Samuel 10:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But the Arameans fled before Israel, and David killed seven hundred charioteers and forty thousand foot soldiers. He also struck down Shobach the commander of their army, who died there.

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  31. 2 Samuel 14:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And when he cut the hair of his head—he shaved it every year because his hair got so heavy—he would weigh it out to be two hundred shekels, according to the royal standard.

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  32. 2 Samuel 15:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Two hundred men from Jerusalem accompanied Absalom. They had been invited as guests and they went along innocently, for they knew nothing about the matter.

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  33. 2 Samuel 15:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    and all his servants marched past him—all the Cherethites and Pelethites, and six hundred Gittites who had followed him from Gath.

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  34. 2 Samuel 16:1 · BSB · 3 occurrences

    When David had gone a little beyond the summit, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth was there to meet him. He had a pair of saddled donkeys loaded with two hundred loaves of bread, a hundred clusters of raisins, a hundred summer fruits, and a skin of wine.

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  35. 2 Samuel 18:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then David reviewed his troops and appointed over them commanders of thousands and of hundreds.

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  36. 2 Samuel 18:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “I will do whatever seems best to you,” the king replied. So he stood beside the gate, while all the troops marched out by hundreds and by thousands.

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  37. 2 Samuel 21:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then Ishbi-benob, a descendant of Rapha, whose bronze spear weighed three hundred shekels and who was bearing a new sword, resolved to kill David.

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  38. 2 Samuel 23:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    These are the names of David’s mighty men: Josheb-basshebeth the Tahchemonite was chief of the Three. He wielded his spear against eight hundred men, whom he killed at one time.

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  39. 2 Samuel 23:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Now Abishai, the brother of Joab and son of Zeruiah, was chief of the Three, and he wielded his spear against three hundred men, killed them, and won a name along with the Three.

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  40. 2 Samuel 24:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But Joab replied to the king, “May the LORD your God multiply the troops a hundred times over, and may the eyes of my lord the king see it. But why does my lord the king want to do such a thing?”

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  41. 2 Samuel 24:9 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    And Joab reported to the king the total number of the troops. In Israel there were 800,000 men of valor who drew the sword, and in Judah there were 500,000.

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  42. 1 Kings 4:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    ten fat oxen, twenty range oxen, and a hundred sheep, as well as deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened poultry.

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    Source alternate reference: 5.3

  43. 1 Kings 5:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    not including his 3,300 foremen who supervised the workers.

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    Source alternate reference: 5.30

  44. 1 Kings 6:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, the second month, he began to build the house of the LORD.

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  45. 1 Kings 7:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    He built the House of the Forest of Lebanon a hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high, with four rows of cedar pillars supporting the cedar beams.

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  46. 1 Kings 7:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    On the capitals of both pillars, just above the rounded projection next to the network, were the two hundred pomegranates in rows encircling each capital.

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  47. 1 Kings 7:42 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    the four hundred pomegranates for the two sets of network (two rows of pomegranates for each network covering both the bowl-shaped capitals atop the pillars);

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  48. 1 Kings 8:63 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And Solomon offered as peace offerings to the LORD 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the Israelites dedicated the house of the LORD.

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  49. 1 Kings 9:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And Hiram had sent the king 120 talents of gold.

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  50. 1 Kings 9:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    They were also the chief officers over Solomon’s projects: 550 supervisors over the people who did the work.

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