מֵעָה
mêʻâh · H4579 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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grain
Small, hard particle of sand
ExamplesIsaiah 48:19 “Your descendants would have been like the sand, And your offspring like its grains; Their name would never be eliminated or destroyed from My presence.”
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
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הוּhis 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- כlike/as 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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Near synonyms 2 words
- אֶבֶן ʼeben · H68 · stone (as a substance), stone (as an object)
- אֶבֶן refers to stone in general, while מֵעָה specifically denotes small stones or gravel; both refer to mineral/rock material but differ in granularity
- חוֹל chôwl · H2344 · sand
- חוֹל (sand) and מֵעָה (gravel) both refer to small mineral particles, but sand is finer-grained than gravel; both occupy adjacent positions on the spectrum of granular mineral materials
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Quantity002001001046
- מֵעָה denotes gravel, small stones counted or reckoned as a quantity.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4579. maah [מָעָה] noun feminine grain (of sand), si vera lectio (Late Hebrew מָעָה,…
[מָעָה] noun feminine grain (of sand), si vera lectio (Late Hebrew מָעָה, seed (of melon, etc.), coin, Aramaic , מָעָא coin); — only feminine plural suffix: כִּמְעֹתָיוּ מֵעֶיךָ וְצֶאֱצָאֵי זֵרְעֶ֔ךָ כַחוֺל וַיְהִי Isa 48:19 and thy seed had been like the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the grains thereof, compare ᵑ7 ᵑ9 De Di Du and others > plural of [מֵעֶה] the entrails of it (i.e. the sea) AE Ges Hi CheComm. — ᵐ5 ὡς ὁ χοῦς τῆς γῆς, whence Gr כְּעפרותיו.
מָעוֺג see עוג. מָעֹז מָעוֺז, see עוז (compare עזז).
I, II. מְעוֺנֹתַי מְע(וֺ)נָה, מָעוֺן, see עון.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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