Hebrew noun · H3972
מְאוּמָה
meumahmeh-oo'-maw
anything
32 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: mᵉʼûwmâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3972is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 12 of 39Old Testament books
- 12spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3972
properly, a speck or point, i.e. (by implication) something; with negative, nothing
The King James renders it: fault, [phrase] no(-ught), ought, somewhat, any (no-)thing.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
meumah is rendered "anything". It stands 32 times in the Hebrew text, across twelve books.
- Nine of the uses stand in 1 Samuel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 22:12“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.”
- The Greek text spells it twelve different ways.
The first use
“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.”
Genesis 22:12מְא֑וּמָּה
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Nine of the word's thirty-two uses are in 1 Samuel.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- anything28
- and anything2
- to anything2
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| מְאוּרָה | meurah | hole | Uses1 |
All 32, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
12 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- מְא֔וּמָה9
- מְא֑וּמָה6
- מְאֽוּמָה׃6
- לִמְאֽוּמָה׃2
- מְא֖וּמָה2
- וּמְא֖וּמָה1
- וּמְא֙וּמָה֙1
- מְא֙וּמָה֙1
- מְא֛וּמָה1
- מְא֗וּמָה1
- מְא֣וּמָה1
- מְא֑וּמָּה1
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine singular28HNcfsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular2HC/Ncfsa
- preposition + noun · feminine singular2HR/Ncfsa
Genesis
six uses
“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.”
- מְא֑וּמָּהmeumahnoun · feminine singulartagged: anything
“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.
- מְא֔וּמָהmeumahnoun · feminine singulartagged: anything
So 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,
- מְא֔וּמָהmeumahnoun · feminine singulartagged: anything
No 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?”
- מְא֔וּמָהmeumahnoun · feminine singulartagged: anything
The 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.
- מְא֙וּמָה֙meumahnoun · feminine singulartagged: anything
For 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.”
- מְא֔וּמָהmeumahnoun · feminine singulartagged: anything
Numbers
one use
“See, I have come to you,” Balaam replied, “but can I say just anything? I must speak only the word that God puts in my mouth.”
- מְא֑וּמָהmeumahnoun · feminine singulartagged: anything
Deuteronomy
two uses
Nothing 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,
- מְא֖וּמָהmeumahnoun · feminine singulartagged: anything
When you lend anything to your neighbor, do not enter his house to collect security.
- מְא֑וּמָהmeumahnoun · feminine singulartagged: anything
Judges
one use
and the Spirit of the LORD came powerfully upon him, and he tore the lion apart with his bare hands as one would tear a young goat. But he did not tell his father or mother what he had done.
- וּמְא֖וּמָהumeumahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and anything
1 Samuel
nine uses
“You have not wronged us or oppressed us,” they replied, “nor have you taken anything from the hand of man.”
- מְאֽוּמָה׃meumahnoun · feminine singulartagged: anything
Samuel 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.
- מְא֑וּמָהmeumahnoun · feminine singulartagged: anything
Saul said nothing that day because he thought, “Something has happened to David to make him ceremonially unclean—surely he is unclean.”
- מְא֖וּמָהmeumahnoun · feminine singulartagged: anything
But the boy did not know anything; only Jonathan and David knew the arrangement.
- מְא֑וּמָהmeumahnoun · feminine singulartagged: anything
“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.
- מְא֛וּמָהmeumahnoun · feminine singulartagged: anything
Now 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.
- מְא֔וּמָהmeumahnoun · feminine singulartagged: anything
Yet 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.
- מְא֔וּמָהmeumahnoun · feminine singulartagged: anything
Now 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.
- מְא֑וּמָהmeumahnoun · feminine singulartagged: anything
Then 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.”
- מְא֔וּמָהmeumahnoun · feminine singulartagged: anything
2 Samuel
two uses
Then 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!”
- מְאֽוּמָה׃meumahnoun · feminine singulartagged: anything
Amnon was sick with frustration over his sister Tamar, for she was a virgin, and it seemed implausible for him to do anything to her.
- מְאֽוּמָה׃meumahnoun · feminine singulartagged: anything
1 Kings
two uses
All 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.
- לִמְאֽוּמָה׃limumahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: to anything
“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.”
- מְא֑וּמָהmeumahnoun · feminine singulartagged: anything
2 Kings
one use
Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, “Look, my master has spared this Aramean, Naaman, while not accepting what he brought. As surely as the LORD lives, I will run after him and get something from him.”
- מְאֽוּמָה׃meumahnoun · feminine singulartagged: anything
2 Chronicles
one use
All 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.
- לִמְאֽוּמָה׃limumahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: to anything
Ecclesiastes
four uses
or wealth lost in a failed venture, so when that man has a son there is nothing to pass on.
- מְאֽוּמָה׃meumahnoun · feminine singulartagged: anything
As 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.
- וּמְא֙וּמָה֙umeumahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and anything
In 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.
- מְאֽוּמָה׃meumahnoun · feminine singulartagged: anything
For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing. They have no further reward, because the memory of them is forgotten.
- מְא֗וּמָהmeumahnoun · feminine singulartagged: anything
Jeremiah
two uses
But 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.
- מְא֔וּמָהmeumahnoun · feminine singulartagged: anything
“Take him, look after him, and do not let any harm come to him; do for him whatever he says.”
- מְא֣וּמָהmeumahnoun · feminine singulartagged: anything
Jonah
one use
Then he issued a proclamation in Nineveh: “By the decree of the king and his nobles: Let no man or beast, herd or flock, taste anything at all. They must not eat or drink.
- מְא֔וּמָהmeumahnoun · feminine singulartagged: anything
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.
