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# מְאָה

Biblical Aramaic

**hundred** — used 8 times in the Aramaic chapters of the Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

hundred [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b0_5d0_5b8_5d4/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מְאָה: n.f. hundred [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b0_5d0_5b8_5d4/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. hundred (v. BH);—abs. מ׳ after noun enum., Ezr 6:17; 7:22(×4), so אַרְבַּע מ׳ 6:17, מ׳ וְעֶשְׂרִין Dn 6:2, and du. מָאתַ֫יִן Ezr 6:17.

### Jastrow 1903

מְאָה: Du [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b0_5d0_5b8_5d4/#m3)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** Targ. Gen. V, 3, sq.; a. fr.—Du. מָאתַיִן, מָאתָן. Ezra VI, 17.—Targ. Gen. XXXII, 15; a. fr.—Pl. מַאֲוָון. מָאוָן, מְאַוָותָא. Targ. II Sam. XVIII, 4 ed. Lag. (ed. מאתן; corr. acc.). Targ. I Sam. XXIX, 2.—Targ. O. Ex. XVIII, 21 מְאַוָתָא ed. Berl. (oth. ed. מַאֲוָ׳; Y. מַאֲוָו׳); a. fr.—Y. Kil. IX, 32ᵇ bot. תלת מ׳ צומין three hundred fasts; Y. Keth. XII, 35ᵃ bot. מאתן (corr. acc.). Y. Naz. V, end, 54ᵇ תלת מ׳ נזירין three hundred Nazarites; תשע מ׳ קרבנין nine hundred sacrifices; (Y. Ber. VII, 11ᵇ bot.; Gen. R. s. 91 תלת מאה, תשע מאה); a. fr.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: one hundred (6); hundred (1); two hundred (1).

## In the verses

[Daniel 6:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.6.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.6.2/#tree)

שְׁפַר֙ קֳדָ֣ם דָּרְיָ֔וֶשׁ וַהֲקִים֙ עַל־מַלְכוּתָ֔א לַאֲחַשְׁדַּרְפְּנַיָּ֖א מְאָ֣ה וְעֶשְׂרִ֑ין דִּ֥י לֶהֱוֺ֖ן בְּכָל־מַלְכוּתָֽא׃

*Word for word:* it.seemed.good before Darius and he.appointed over the kingdom (et) the satraps one.hundred and twenty who they.will.be over all the kingdom

*JPS 1917:* It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom a hundred and twenty satraps, who should be throughout the whole kingdom;

[Ezra 7:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.7.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.7.22/#tree)

עַד־כְּסַף֮ כַּכְּרִ֣ין מְאָה֒ וְעַד־חִנְטִין֙ כֹּרִ֣ין מְאָ֔ה וְעַד־חֲמַר֙ בַּתִּ֣ין מְאָ֔ה וְעַד־בַּתִּ֥ין מְשַׁ֖ח מְאָ֑ה וּמְלַ֖ח דִּי־לָ֥א כְתָֽב׃

*Word for word:* up.to silver talents one.hundred and up.to wheat(s) cors one.hundred and up.to wine baths one.hundred and up.to baths oil one.hundred and salt which not \[is\].writing

*JPS 1917:* unto a hundred talents of silver, and to a hundred measures of wheat, and to a hundred baths of wine, and to a hundred baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much.

## In Targum Onkelos

Number 41 of the commonest words of Targum Onkelos, the Aramaic translation of the Torah: used 165 times there, in the forms מְאָה (160); וּמְאָה (2); מְאָהּ (2); לִמְאָה (1).

[Numbers 31:45](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.31.45/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.31.45/#tree) · Onkelos, then the Hebrew

וַחֲמָרֵי תְּלָתִין אַלְפִין וַחֲמֵשׁ מְאָה

וַחֲמֹרִ֕ים שְׁלֹשִׁ֥ים אֶ֖לֶף וַחֲמֵ֥שׁ מֵאֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* and donkeys thirty thousand and five hundred(s)

*JPS 1917:* and thirty thousand and five hundred asses,

[Genesis 35:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.35.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.35.28/#tree) · Onkelos, then the Hebrew

וַהֲווֹ יוֹמֵי יִצְחָק מְאָה וּתְמָנָן שְׁנִין

וַיִּֽהְי֖וּ יְמֵ֣י יִצְחָ֑ק מְאַ֥ת שָׁנָ֖ה וּשְׁמֹנִ֥ים שָׁנָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and they.were the.days of.Isaac one.hundred year\[s\] and eighty year\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* And the days of Isaac were a hundred and fourscore years.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5de_5b0_5d0_5b8_5d4.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b0_5d0_5b8_5d4/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).