Word Study · Strong's H3972 · Hebrew
מְאוּמָה
meumah
meh-oo'-maw
Strong's 1890 spelling: mᵉʼûwmâh
“properly, a speck or point, i.e. (by implication) something”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
properly, a speck or point, i.e. (by implication) something; with negative, nothing
Rendered in the KJV as
fault, [phrase] no(-ught), ought, somewhat, any (no-)thing.
- 32occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 12 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 12inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 32 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 12
- מְא֔וּמָה9
- מְא֑וּמָה6
- מְאֽוּמָה׃6
- לִמְאֽוּמָה׃2
- מְא֖וּמָה2
- וּמְא֖וּמָה1
- וּמְא֙וּמָה֙1
- מְא֙וּמָה֙1
- מְא֛וּמָה1
- מְא֗וּמָה1
- מְא֣וּמָה1
- מְא֑וּמָּה1
How it is rendered · 5
- anything27
- to anything2
- [is] anything1
- and [was] anything1
- and anything1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 3
- noun · feminine singular28
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular2
- preposition + noun · feminine singular2
Show the grammar codes as tagged
- HNcfsa · 28
- HC/Ncfsa · 2
- HR/Ncfsa · 2
All 32, in canonical order
The ledger of occurrences
Where this word lives
- 1 Samuel9 of 32 · 28%
- Genesis6 of 32 · 19%
- Ecclesiastes4 of 32 · 13%
- Deuteronomy2 of 32 · 6%
- 2 Samuel2 of 32 · 6%
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Genesis6 occurrences
- Genesis 22:12מְא֑וּמָּהmeumahnoun · feminine singular“Do not lay a hand on the boy or do anything to him,” said the angel, “for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your only son from me.”here: anything
- Genesis 30:31מְא֔וּמָהmeumahnoun · feminine singular“What can I give you?” Laban asked. “You do not need to give me anything,” Jacob replied. “If you do this one thing for me, I will keep on shepherding and keeping your flocks.here: anything
- Genesis 39:6מְא֔וּמָהmeumahnoun · feminine singularSo Potiphar left all that he owned in Joseph’s care; he did not concern himself with anything except the food he ate. Now Joseph was well-built and handsome,here: anything
- Genesis 39:9מְא֔וּמָהmeumahnoun · feminine singularNo one in this house is greater than I am. He has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. So how could I do such a great evil and sin against God?”here: anything
- Genesis 39:23מְא֙וּמָה֙meumahnoun · feminine singularThe warden did not concern himself with anything under Joseph’s care, because the LORD was with Joseph and gave him success in whatever he did.here: anything
- Genesis 40:15מְא֔וּמָהmeumahnoun · feminine singularFor I was kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews, and even here I have done nothing for which they should have put me in this dungeon.”here: anything
Deuteronomy2 occurrences
- Deuteronomy 13:17מְא֖וּמָהmeumahnoun · feminine singularNothing devoted to destruction shall cling to your hands, so that the LORD will turn from His fierce anger, grant you mercy, show you compassion, and multiply you as He swore to your fathers,here: anything
- Deuteronomy 24:10מְא֑וּמָהmeumahnoun · feminine singularWhen you lend anything to your neighbor, do not enter his house to collect security.here: anything
1 Samuel9 occurrences
- 1 Samuel 12:4מְאֽוּמָה׃meumahnoun · feminine singular“You have not wronged us or oppressed us,” they replied, “nor have you taken anything from the hand of man.”here: anything
- 1 Samuel 12:5מְא֑וּמָהmeumahnoun · feminine singularSamuel said to them, “The LORD is a witness against you, and His anointed is a witness today, that you have not found anything in my hand.” “He is a witness,” they replied.here: anything
- 1 Samuel 20:26מְא֖וּמָהmeumahnoun · feminine singularSaul said nothing that day because he thought, “Something has happened to David to make him ceremonially unclean—surely he is unclean.”here: anything
- 1 Samuel 20:39מְא֑וּמָהmeumahnoun · feminine singularBut the boy did not know anything; only Jonathan and David knew the arrangement.here: anything
- 1 Samuel 21:2מְא֛וּמָהmeumahnoun · feminine singular“The king has given me a mission,” David replied. “He told me no one is to know about the mission or charge. And I have directed my young men to meet me at a certain place.here: anything
- 1 Samuel 25:7מְא֔וּמָהmeumahnoun · feminine singularNow I hear that it is time for shearing. When your shepherds were with us, we did not harass them, and nothing of theirs was missing the whole time they were in Carmel.here: anything
- 1 Samuel 25:15מְא֔וּמָהmeumahnoun · feminine singularYet these men were very good to us. When we were in the field, we were not harassed, and nothing of ours went missing the whole time we lived among them.here: anything
- 1 Samuel 25:21מְא֑וּמָהmeumahnoun · feminine singularNow David had just finished saying, “In vain I have protected all that belonged to this man in the wilderness. Nothing that belongs to him has gone missing, yet he has paid me back evil for good.here: anything
- 1 Samuel 29:3מְא֔וּמָהmeumahnoun · feminine singularThen the commanders of the Philistines asked, “What about these Hebrews?” Achish replied, “Is this not David, the servant of King Saul of Israel? He has been with me all these days, even years, and from the day he defected until today I have found no fault in him.”here: anything
2 Samuel2 occurrences
- 2 Samuel 3:35מְאֽוּמָה׃meumahnoun · feminine singularThen all the people came and urged David to eat something while it was still day, but David took an oath, saying, “May God punish me, and ever so severely, if I taste bread or anything else before the sun sets!”here: anything
- 2 Samuel 13:2מְאֽוּמָה׃meumahnoun · feminine singularAmnon was sick with frustration over his sister Tamar, for she was a virgin, and it seemed implausible for him to do anything to her.here: anything
1 Kings2 occurrences
- 1 Kings 10:21לִמְאֽוּמָה׃limumahpreposition + noun · feminine singularAll King Solomon’s drinking cups were gold, and all the utensils of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were pure gold. There was no silver, because it was accounted as nothing in the days of Solomon.here: to anything
- 1 Kings 18:43מְא֑וּמָהmeumahnoun · feminine singular“Go and look toward the sea,” he said to his servant. So the servant went and looked, and he said, “There is nothing there.” Seven times Elijah said, “Go back.”here: [is] anything
Ecclesiastes4 occurrences
- Ecclesiastes 5:14מְאֽוּמָה׃meumahnoun · feminine singularor wealth lost in a failed venture, so when that man has a son there is nothing to pass on.here: anything
- Ecclesiastes 5:15וּמְא֙וּמָה֙umeumahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singularAs a man came from his mother’s womb, so he will depart again, naked as he arrived. He takes nothing for his labor to carry in his hands.here: and anything
- Ecclesiastes 7:14מְאֽוּמָה׃meumahnoun · feminine singularIn the day of prosperity, be joyful, but in the day of adversity, consider this: God has made one of these along with the other, so that a man cannot discover anything that will come after him.here: anything
- Ecclesiastes 9:5מְא֗וּמָהmeumahnoun · feminine singularFor the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing. They have no further reward, because the memory of them is forgotten.here: anything
Jeremiah2 occurrences
- Jeremiah 39:10מְא֔וּמָהmeumahnoun · feminine singularBut Nebuzaradan left behind in the land of Judah some of the poor people who had no property, and at that time he gave them vineyards and fields.here: anything
- Jeremiah 39:12מְא֣וּמָהmeumahnoun · feminine singular“Take him, look after him, and do not let any harm come to him; do for him whatever he says.”here: anything