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Strong's #3967: me'ah (pronounced may-aw')

or metyah {may-yaw'}; properly, a primitive numeral; a hundred; also as a multiplicative and a fraction:--hundred((-fold), -th), + sixscore.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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mê'âh / mê'yâh

1) hundred

1a) as simple number

1b) as part of larger number

1c) as a fraction - one one-hundredth (1/100)

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: properly, a primitive numeral; a hundred



Usage:

This word is used 581 times:

1 Chronicles 27:1: "fathers and captains of thousands and hundreds, and their officers that served the king"
1 Chronicles 28:1: "by course, and the captains over the thousands, and captains over the hundreds, and the stewards over all the substance and possession"
1 Chronicles 29:6: "of Israel, and the captains of thousands and of hundreds, with the rulers of the king's work, offered willingly,"
1 Chronicles 29:7: "and of brass eighteen thousand talents, and one hundred thousand talents"
2 Chronicles 1:2: "Israel, to the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and to the judges, and to every governor in all"
2 Chronicles 1:14: "and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand"
2 Chronicles 1:17: "a chariot for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a hundred"
2 Chronicles 1:17: "for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty: and so brought they out"
2 Chronicles 2:2: "in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee"
2 Chronicles 2:17: "David his father had numbered them; and they were found a hundred and fifty thousand and three"
2 Chronicles 2:17: "thousand and three thousand and six hundred."
2 Chronicles 2:18: "and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people"
2 Chronicles 3:4: "of the house, twenty cubits, and the height was a hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within"
2 Chronicles 3:8: "cubits: and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents."
2 Chronicles 3:16: "the heads of the pillars; and made a hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chains."
2 Chronicles 4:8: "on the right side, and five on the left. And he made a hundred basins of gold."
2 Chronicles 4:13: "And four hundred on the two wreaths; two rows of pomegranates"
2 Chronicles 5:12: "at the east end of the altar, and with them a hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets:)"
2 Chronicles 7:5: "and two thousand oxen, and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep: so the king"
2 Chronicles 8:10: "Solomon's officers, even two hundred and fifty, that bore rule over the people."
2 Chronicles 8:18: "and took thence four hundred and fifty talents of gold,"
2 Chronicles 9:9: "And she gave the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices great"
2 Chronicles 9:13: "year was six hundred and threescore and six talents of gold;"
2 Chronicles 9:15: "And king Solomon two hundred targets of beaten gold: six"
2 Chronicles 9:15: "of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of beaten gold went to"
2 Chronicles 9:16: "And three hundred made he of beaten gold: three hundred shekels of gold"
2 Chronicles 9:16: "made he of beaten gold: three hundred shekels of gold went to one"
2 Chronicles 11:1: "of the house of Judah and Benjamin a hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men, which were warriors,"
2 Chronicles 12:3: "With twelve hundred With twelve hundred chariots, thousand horsemen: and the people were without"
2 Chronicles 13:3: "of valiant men of war, even four hundred thousand chosen men: Jeroboam"
2 Chronicles 13:3: "also set the battle in array against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men,"
2 Chronicles 13:17: "slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men."
2 Chronicles 14:8: "out of Judah three hundred thousand; and out of Benjamin, that bore"
2 Chronicles 14:8: "that bore shields and drew bows, two hundred and fourscore thousand: all"
2 Chronicles 14:9: "of a thousand thousand, and three hundred chariots; and came unto Mareshah."
2 Chronicles 15:11: "the spoil which they had brought, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep."
2 Chronicles 17:11: "seven thousand and seven hundred rams, and seven thousand and seven"
2 Chronicles 17:11: "and seven thousand and seven hundred he goats."
2 Chronicles 17:14: "him mighty men of valor three hundred thousand."
2 Chronicles 17:15: "And next to him was Jehohanan and with him two hundred and fourscore thousand."
2 Chronicles 17:16: "of Zichri, who willingly offered himself unto the LORD; and with him two hundred thousand mighty men of valor."
2 Chronicles 17:17: "him armed men with bow and shield two hundred thousand."
2 Chronicles 17:18: "And next him was Jehozabad, him a hundred and fourscore thousand ready prepared"
2 Chronicles 18:5: "of prophets four hundred men, and said unto them, Shall we go"
2 Chronicles 23:1: "and took the captains of hundreds, Azariah the son of Jeroham, and Ishmael"
2 Chronicles 23:9: "the priest to the captains of hundreds spears, and bucklers, and shields,"
2 Chronicles 23:14: "the captains of hundreds that were set over the host, and said unto"
2 Chronicles 23:20: "And he took of hundreds, and the nobles, and the governors of the people, and all"
2 Chronicles 24:15: "of days when he died; a hundred and thirty years old was he when he died."
2 Chronicles 25:5: "gathered Judah together, them captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, according to the houses of their fathers,"









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