מְאוּמָה
mᵉʼûwmâh · H3972 · Hebrew · 32 occurrences
Meanings
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something, anything
A reference to any object
ExamplesGenesis 30:31 So he said, “What shall I give you?” And Jacob said, “You shall not give me anything. If you will do this one thing for me, I will again pasture and keep your flock:
Deuteronomy 24:10 “When you make your neighbor a loan of any kind, you shall not enter his house to take his pledge.
1 Samuel 12:4 And they said, “You have not exploited us or oppressed us, or taken anything from anyone’s hand.”
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something, anything
A reference to any event
ExamplesGenesis 22:12 He said, “Do not reach out your hand against the boy, and do not do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.”
Genesis 39:6 So he left Joseph in charge of everything that he owned; and with him there he did not concern himself with anything except the food which he ate. Now Joseph was handsome in form and appearance.
Genesis 39:23 The warden of the prison did not supervise anything under Joseph’s authority, because the LORD was with him; and, the LORD made whatever he did prosper.
How it’s used In 7 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- רַעevil, bad 1
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- דָּבָרword, thing, matter 1
What it doesIt is the subject
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- פָּקַדto number, to punish 2
- דָּבַקto cling, to cleave 1
What is done to itIt is the object
22 occurrences in 11 groups
- יָדַעto know 4
- עָשָׂהto do, to make 4
- מָצָאto find 3
- Other words · 8 groups that occur once or twice (11) 11
What it is said to bePredicate
4 occurrences in 1 groups
- אַיִןthere is no, not 4
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- לto/for 4
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מַשָּׁאָהloan 1
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 3 words
- τὶς tìs · G5100 · someone, something, anyone
- Both lemmas function as indefinite pronouns denoting an unspecified entity or quantity. מְאוּמָה (mᵉʼûwmâh, H3972) in Hebrew serves as a general indefinite pronoun meaning "anything" or "something," often used in negative constructions to mean "nothing." τὶς (tìs, G5100) in Greek likewise functions as an indefinite pronoun meaning "some(one/thing)" or "any(one/thing)." The two words occupy parallel grammatical and semantic roles in their respective languages as non-specific referents for both persons and objects, making them genuine cross-linguistic equivalents.
- οὐδείς oudeís · G3762 · no one, none, nothing
- Greek οὐδείς (oudeis) serves as the primary negation equivalent for Hebrew מְאוּמָה (me'umah) in LXX contexts expressing absolute negation or nothingness, particularly in phrases like 'not anything' or 'nothing at all.'
- μηδείς mēdeís · G3367 · no one, none, nothing
- מְאוּמָה (mᵉʼûwmâh, H3972) מְאוּמָה denotes indefinite negation ('anything', 'nothing') in Hebrew; μηδείς (mēdeís, G3367) μηδείς serves as its standard Greek equivalent expressing emphatic negation ('not even one', 'nothing'), both functioning as negative polarity items in their respective languages.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Object Referents003001
- מְאוּמָה is an indefinite pronoun meaning 'anything' or 'something,' as in Genesis 22:12's "do not do anything to him," referring generally to an unspecified object or thing.
- Event Referents003002
- The same indefinite word also refers to an unspecified action or event, as reflected in its gloss 'ought, somewhat,' covering cases where the referent is a deed or occurrence rather than a physical object.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3972. meumah מְא֫וּמָה32 pronoun indefinite anything (according to Thes from וּמָה מָה,…
מְא֫וּמָה32 pronoun indefinite anything (according to Thes from וּמָה מָה, like quidquid, against which is the Mil`el tone; according to Ol254, 255, 386 Köii. 146 an old accusative from מאוּם in sense of speck, particle, compare French point: in Assyrian manman (properly who ? who ?), assimilated mamman, or manma (man, who ? + Generalizing ma), mamma, is any one, minma (min, what ? + ma), mimma, is anything, Dl§ 60, HWB 418 f; WSG 125 f.); — anything, usually in negative sentences, as Gen 22:12 מאומה לו ואלתֿעשׂ (euphem. for something bad), Gen 30:31 לֹאתִֿתֶּןלִֿי מאומה, Gen 39:6, Gen 39:9; Gen 40:15 (euphemism), 1Sa 12:4-5, 1Sa 20:26, 1Sa 20:39; 1Sa 25:7, 1Sa 25:15, 1Sa 25:21; 1Sa 29:3 etc., Jdg 14:6 בידו אין ומאומה, Ecc 5:14 ׳ומ בעמלו ישׂא לא 1Ki 18:43 מ ׳אין literally nought of anything ! Jer 39:12 רָּע מאומה לו תעשׂ ואל; strengthened by כֹּל Gen 39:23; 2Sa 3:35; after אִם = surely not, 2Sa 3:35; in interrogative sentence Num 22:38; in affirm. sentence Deu 24:10 מ מַשֵּׁאת ׳בְרֵעֲךָ כִּיתַֿשֶּׁה a pledge of (= consisting in) anything, 2Sa 13:2 (euphemism), 2Ki 5:20. Used adverbially, 1Sa 21:3 מ ידע אל ׳אישׁ הדבר את let no one know of the matter in anything at all.
מָאוֺר, [מְאוּרָה] see אור.
[מאזן], מאֹזְנַיִם see II. אזן.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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