מְאֹד
mᵉʼôd · H3966 · Hebrew · 300 occurrences
Meanings
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very, exceedingly, greatly
Expressing abundance or high degree
Examples1 Chronicles 10:4 Then Saul said to his armor bearer, “Draw your sword and thrust me through with it, otherwise these uncircumcised Philistines will come and abuse me.” But his armor bearer would not, for he was very afraid. So Saul took his own sword and fell on it.
1 Chronicles 16:25 For great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; He also is to be feared above all gods.
1 Chronicles 18:8 Also from Tibhath and Cun, cities of Hadadezer, David took a very large amount of bronze, with which Solomon made the bronze Sea and the pillars and the bronze utensils.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- ךָyour 1
- הוּhis 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
18 occurrences in 2 groups
- עַדto, as far as, until 11
- בin/on/with 8
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 2 words
- σφόδρα sphódra · G4970 · exceedingly, greatly, violently
- Greek σφόδρα (sphódra, G4970) ('vehemently, in a high degree, much') serves as the standard Septuagint rendering of Hebrew adverbial מְאֹד across its full intensifying range ('very, greatly, exceedingly, vehemently').
- λίαν lían · G3029 · very
- Greek λίαν (lían, G3029) serves as the standard adverbial intensifier corresponding to Hebrew מְאֹד (mᵉʼôd, H3966), both functioning to mark high degree or intensity ('very', 'exceedingly', 'much') across diverse semantic domains.
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3966. meod מְאֹד noun masculine muchness, force, abundance, exceedingly (compare…
מְאֹד noun masculine muchness, force, abundance, exceedingly (compare Assyrian mu'du, abundance, HomZMG 1878, 711 ('treasures ana mu'di, in abundance') DlHWB 399): —
1 force, might, Deu 6:5 וּבְכָלמְֿאֹדֶ֑ךָ and with all thy might; hence 2Ki 23:25.
2 in different idioms (298 t.) to express the idea of exceedingly, greatly, very (whether of magnitude or degree):
a. (so mostly) as adverb accusative, qualifying both adjectives and obs., Gen 1:31 מְאֹד טוֺב good exceedingly, Gen 4:5 מְאֹד לְקַיִן וַיִּחַד and Cain was wroth exceedingly, Gen 7:18 וַיִּגְבְּרוּ הַמַּיִם וַיִּרְבּוּ מְאֹד, Gen 12:14; Gen 13:2 וְאַבְרָם כָּבֵד מְאֹד בַּמִּקְנֶה, Gen 13:13 לי ׳חַטָּאִים מאד, Gen 18:20; Gen 19:3, Gen 19:9; Gen 21:11; Gen 24:16, Gen 24:35, + often, Psa 46:2 בְצָרוֺת עֶזְרָה מְאֹד נִמְצָא as a help in troubles, to be found (= present) exceedingly; with an infinitive Isa 47:9 מְאֹד חֲבָרַיִח בְּעָצְמַת despite of thy spells being very numerous, Jos 9:13 מְאֹד הַדֶּרֶךְ מֵרֹב, 1Ki 7:47; מְאֹד הַרְבֵּה Gen 15:1; Gen 41:49; Deu 3:5 +, for which in the later language is found מְאֹד לָרֹב Zec 14:14; 2Ch 4:18; 2Ch 9:9 (in 1Ki 10:10 מְאֹד הַרְבֵּה); 2Ch 24:24; 2Ch 30:13, and even מְאֹד לְהַרְבֵּה2Ch 11:12; 2Ch 16:8. מְאֹד is not usually separated from the word it qualifies by more than one or two words (as Gen 20:8 וייראו מאד האנשׁים, Num 11:10 י אף ׳ויחר מאד); see, however, Deu 30:14; Jdg 12:2; 2Sa 12:5; 1Ki 11:19; Psa 31:12. It precedes its verb, Psalm 47:10 נַעֲלָה מְאֹד (hence Psa 97:9), Psa 92:6.
b. עַדמְֿאֹד up to abundance, to a great degree, exceedingly, Gen 27:33 ׳עַדמֿ גְּדֹלָה חֲדָדָה, Gen 27:34; 1Sa 11:15 מ עד ֗֗֗ ׳וישׂמח, 1Sa 25:36 עַדמֿ ׳שִׁכֹּר וְהוּא, 2Sa 2:17; 1Ki 1:4; Isa 64:8 (compare Lam 5:22), Lam 5:11; Psa 38:7; Psa 38:9; Psa 119:8; Psa 119:43; Psa 119:51; Psa 119:107; Dan 8:8; Dan 11:25.
c. עַדלִֿמְאֹד (see לְ עַד) 2Ch 16:14.
d. duplicated (Ges§ 113k), Gen 7:19 מ גָָּֽבְרוּ ׳וְהַמַּיִם ׳מ, Gen 30:43; Num 14:7; 1Ki 7:47; 2Ki 10:4; Eze 37:10.
e. מְאֹד בִּמְאֹד literally with muchness, muchness, Gen 17:2, Gen 17:6, Gen 17:20; Exo 1:7 (all P), Eze 9:9; Eze 16:13.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Sources
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