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Strong's H3967 מֵאָה (meah)

Meah means “hundred” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's G3967 — patrikos (“of fathers”) in the Greek Bible.

Strong's Number H3967
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 511
Books 25

Strong's H3967 Quick Answer

Strong's H3967 מֵאָה מֵאיָה (me'ah) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. me'ah (may-aw') (or metyah {may-yaw'}) n-f. 1. a hundred 2. also as a multiplicative and a fraction It has 511 linked Bible usages across 25 books. Visible English usage signals include hundred and two. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
me'ah (may-aw') (or metyah {may-yaw'}) n-f. 1. a hundred 2. also as a multiplicative and a fraction
Usage
511 linked usages
Books
25 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
hundred and two

Meaning and Definition

me'ah (may-aw') (or metyah {may-yaw'}) n-f. 1. a hundred 2. also as a multiplicative and a fraction [(properly) a primitive numeral] KJV: hundred((-fold), -th), + sixscore.

Original Word
מֵאָה מֵאיָה
Transliteration
me'ah
Morphology
noun fem

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H3967. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)

hundred

Usage: 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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How Strong's H3967 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render me'ah, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

hundred Genesis 5:3 111× two Genesis 11:19

How Strong's H3967 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 511 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H3967 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H3967 in the Old Testament

511 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Genesis 5:3 KJV

And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, and after his image; and called his name Seth:

Genesis 5:4 KJV

And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:

Genesis 5:5 KJV

And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.

Usage Excerpts

First 120 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H3967.

Genesis 5:3 Old Testament, KJV
And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, and after his image; and called his name Seth:
Genesis 5:4 Old Testament, KJV
And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:
Genesis 5:5 Old Testament, KJV
And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.
Genesis 5:6 Old Testament, KJV
And Seth lived an hundred and five years, and begat Enos:
Genesis 5:7 Old Testament, KJV
And Seth lived after he begat Enos eight hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters:
Genesis 5:8 Old Testament, KJV
And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years: and he died.
Genesis 5:10 Old Testament, KJV
And Enos lived after he begat Cainan eight hundred and fifteen years, and begat sons and daughters:
Genesis 5:11 Old Testament, KJV
And all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years: and he died.
Genesis 5:13 Old Testament, KJV
And Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters:
Genesis 5:14 Old Testament, KJV
And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years: and he died.
Genesis 5:16 Old Testament, KJV
And Mahalaleel lived after he begat Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters:
Genesis 5:17 Old Testament, KJV
And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety and five years: and he died.
Genesis 5:18 Old Testament, KJV
And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he begat Enoch:
Genesis 5:19 Old Testament, KJV
And Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
Genesis 5:20 Old Testament, KJV
And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years: and he died.
Genesis 5:22 Old Testament, KJV
And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
Genesis 5:23 Old Testament, KJV
And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:
Genesis 5:25 Old Testament, KJV
And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech.
Genesis 5:26 Old Testament, KJV
And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:
Genesis 5:27 Old Testament, KJV
And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.
Genesis 5:28 Old Testament, KJV
And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son:
Genesis 5:30 Old Testament, KJV
And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters:
Genesis 5:31 Old Testament, KJV
And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died.
Genesis 5:32 Old Testament, KJV
And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Genesis 6:3 Old Testament, KJV
And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
Genesis 6:15 Old Testament, KJV
And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
Genesis 7:6 Old Testament, KJV
And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
Genesis 7:11 Old Testament, KJV
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Genesis 7:24 Old Testament, KJV
And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.
Genesis 8:3 Old Testament, KJV
And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.
Genesis 8:13 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.
Genesis 9:28 Old Testament, KJV
And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.
Genesis 9:29 Old Testament, KJV
And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.
Genesis 11:10 Old Testament, KJV
These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:
Genesis 11:11 Old Testament, KJV
And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:13 Old Testament, KJV
And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:15 Old Testament, KJV
And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:17 Old Testament, KJV
And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:19 Old Testament, KJV
And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:21 Old Testament, KJV
And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:23 Old Testament, KJV
And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:25 Old Testament, KJV
And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:32 Old Testament, KJV
And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.
Genesis 14:14 Old Testament, KJV
And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan.
Genesis 15:13 Old Testament, KJV
And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;
Genesis 17:17 Old Testament, KJV
Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?
Genesis 21:5 Old Testament, KJV
And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him.
Genesis 23:1 Old Testament, KJV
And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: these were the years of the life of Sarah.
Genesis 23:15 Old Testament, KJV
My lord, hearken unto me: the land is worth four hundred shekels of silver; what is that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy dead.
Genesis 23:16 Old Testament, KJV
And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.
Genesis 25:7 Old Testament, KJV
And these are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years.
Genesis 25:17 Old Testament, KJV
And these are the years of the life of Ishmael, an hundred and thirty and seven years: and he gave up the ghost and died; and was gathered unto his people.
Genesis 26:12 Old Testament, KJV
Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.
Genesis 32:6 Old Testament, KJV
And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother Esau, and also he cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men with him.
Genesis 32:14 Old Testament, KJV
Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams,
Genesis 33:1 Old Testament, KJV
And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau came, and with him four hundred men. And he divided the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two handmaids.
Genesis 33:19 Old Testament, KJV
And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for an hundred pieces of money.
Genesis 35:28 Old Testament, KJV
And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years.
Genesis 45:22 Old Testament, KJV
To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver, and five changes of raiment.
Genesis 47:9 Old Testament, KJV
And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
Genesis 47:28 Old Testament, KJV
And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years.
Genesis 50:22 Old Testament, KJV
And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house: and Joseph lived an hundred and ten years.
Genesis 50:26 Old Testament, KJV
So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
Exodus 6:16 Old Testament, KJV
And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari: and the years of the life of Levi were an hundred thirty and seven years.
Exodus 6:18 Old Testament, KJV
And the sons of Kohath; Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel: and the years of the life of Kohath were an hundred thirty and three years.
Exodus 6:20 Old Testament, KJV
And Amram took him Jochebed his father's sister to wife; and she bare him Aaron and Moses: and the years of the life of Amram were an hundred and thirty and seven years.
Exodus 12:37 Old Testament, KJV
And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, beside children.
Exodus 12:40 Old Testament, KJV
Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.
Exodus 12:41 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.
Exodus 14:7 Old Testament, KJV
And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over every one of them.
Exodus 18:21 Old Testament, KJV
Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:
Exodus 18:25 Old Testament, KJV
And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
Exodus 27:9 Old Testament, KJV
And thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen of an hundred cubits long for one side:
Exodus 27:11 Old Testament, KJV
And likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings of an hundred cubits long, and his twenty pillars and their twenty sockets of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.
Exodus 27:18 Old Testament, KJV
The length of the court shall be an hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty every where, and the height five cubits of fine twined linen, and their sockets of brass.
Exodus 30:23 Old Testament, KJV
Take thou also unto thee principal spices, of pure myrrh five hundred shekels, and of sweet cinnamon half so much, even two hundred and fifty shekels, and of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty shekels,
Exodus 30:24 Old Testament, KJV
And of cassia five hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of oil olive an hin:
Exodus 38:9 Old Testament, KJV
And he made the court: on the south side southward the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, an hundred cubits:
Exodus 38:11 Old Testament, KJV
And for the north side the hangings were an hundred cubits, their pillars were twenty, and their sockets of brass twenty; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.
Exodus 38:24 Old Testament, KJV
All the gold that was occupied for the work in all the work of the holy place, even the gold of the offering, was twenty and nine talents, and seven hundred and thirty shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary.
Exodus 38:25 Old Testament, KJV
And the silver of them that were numbered of the congregation was an hundred talents, and a thousand seven hundred and threescore and fifteen shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:
Exodus 38:26 Old Testament, KJV
A bekah for every man, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for every one that went to be numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty men.
Exodus 38:27 Old Testament, KJV
And of the hundred talents of silver were cast the sockets of the sanctuary, and the sockets of the vail; an hundred sockets of the hundred talents, a talent for a socket.
Exodus 38:28 Old Testament, KJV
And of the thousand seven hundred seventy and five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their chapiters, and filleted them.
Exodus 38:29 Old Testament, KJV
And the brass of the offering was seventy talents, and two thousand and four hundred shekels.
Leviticus 26:8 Old Testament, KJV
And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.
Numbers 1:21 Old Testament, KJV
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Reuben, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.
Numbers 1:23 Old Testament, KJV
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Simeon, were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred.
Numbers 1:25 Old Testament, KJV
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Gad, were forty and five thousand six hundred and fifty.
Numbers 1:27 Old Testament, KJV
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Judah, were threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred.
Numbers 1:29 Old Testament, KJV
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Issachar, were fifty and four thousand and four hundred.
Numbers 1:31 Old Testament, KJV
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Zebulun, were fifty and seven thousand and four hundred.
Numbers 1:33 Old Testament, KJV
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Ephraim, were forty thousand and five hundred.
Numbers 1:35 Old Testament, KJV
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Manasseh, were thirty and two thousand and two hundred.
Numbers 1:37 Old Testament, KJV
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty and five thousand and four hundred.
Numbers 1:39 Old Testament, KJV
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Dan, were threescore and two thousand and seven hundred.
Numbers 1:41 Old Testament, KJV
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Asher, were forty and one thousand and five hundred.
Numbers 1:43 Old Testament, KJV
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Naphtali, were fifty and three thousand and four hundred.
Numbers 1:46 Old Testament, KJV
Even all they that were numbered were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.
Numbers 2:4 Old Testament, KJV
And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred.
Numbers 2:6 Old Testament, KJV
And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were fifty and four thousand and four hundred.
Numbers 2:8 Old Testament, KJV
And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were fifty and seven thousand and four hundred.
Numbers 2:9 Old Testament, KJV
All that were numbered in the camp of Judah were an hundred thousand and fourscore thousand and six thousand and four hundred, throughout their armies. These shall first set forth.
Numbers 2:11 Old Testament, KJV
And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.
Numbers 2:13 Old Testament, KJV
And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred.
Numbers 2:15 Old Testament, KJV
And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty and five thousand and six hundred and fifty.
Numbers 2:16 Old Testament, KJV
All that were numbered in the camp of Reuben were an hundred thousand and fifty and one thousand and four hundred and fifty, throughout their armies. And they shall set forth in the second rank.
Numbers 2:19 Old Testament, KJV
And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty thousand and five hundred.
Numbers 2:21 Old Testament, KJV
And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were thirty and two thousand and two hundred.
Numbers 2:23 Old Testament, KJV
And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were thirty and five thousand and four hundred.
Numbers 2:24 Old Testament, KJV
All that were numbered of the camp of Ephraim were an hundred thousand and eight thousand and an hundred, throughout their armies. And they shall go forward in the third rank.
Numbers 2:26 Old Testament, KJV
And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were threescore and two thousand and seven hundred.
Numbers 2:28 Old Testament, KJV
And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty and one thousand and five hundred.
Numbers 2:30 Old Testament, KJV
And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were fifty and three thousand and four hundred.
Numbers 2:31 Old Testament, KJV
All they that were numbered in the camp of Dan were an hundred thousand and fifty and seven thousand and six hundred. They shall go hindmost with their standards.
Numbers 2:32 Old Testament, KJV
These are those which were numbered of the children of Israel by the house of their fathers: all those that were numbered of the camps throughout their hosts were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.
Numbers 3:22 Old Testament, KJV
Those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, even those that were numbered of them were seven thousand and five hundred.
Numbers 3:28 Old Testament, KJV
In the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, were eight thousand and six hundred, keeping the charge of the sanctuary.
Numbers 3:34 Old Testament, KJV
And those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, were six thousand and two hundred.
Numbers 3:43 Old Testament, KJV
And all the firstborn males by the number of names, from a month old and upward, of those that were numbered of them, were twenty and two thousand two hundred and threescore and thirteen.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H3967, grouped by book.

Genesis 63 usages, Old Testament
Exodus 22 usages, Old Testament
Leviticus 1 usage, Old Testament
Numbers 85 usages, Old Testament
Deuteronomy 4 usages, Old Testament
Joshua 3 usages, Old Testament
Judges 30 usages, Old Testament
1 Samuel 18 usages, Old Testament
2 Samuel 15 usages, Old Testament
1 Kings 25 usages, Old Testament
2 Kings 12 usages, Old Testament
1 Chronicles 41 usages, Old Testament
2 Chronicles 52 usages, Old Testament
Ezra 48 usages, Old Testament
Nehemiah 47 usages, Old Testament
Esther 7 usages, Old Testament
Job 2 usages, Old Testament
Proverbs 1 usage, Old Testament
Ecclesiastes 2 usages, Old Testament
Song of Solomon 1 usage, Old Testament
Isaiah 2 usages, Old Testament
Jeremiah 3 usages, Old Testament
Ezekiel 23 usages, Old Testament
Daniel 3 usages, Old Testament
Amos 1 usage, Old Testament

Strong's H3967 FAQ

What does meah (מֵאָה) mean?

Meah (Strong's H3967) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "hundred". me'ah (may-aw') (or metyah {may-yaw'}) n-f. 1. a hundred 2. also as a multiplicative and a fraction

How many times is meah (מֵאָה) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 511 linked usages for Strong's H3967 across 25 books.

Where can I study meah (מֵאָה) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H3967 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate meah (מֵאָה)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as hundred and two. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.