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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 39
    Old Testament books
  • 12
    spellings

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.

The other 27 Old Testament books never use the word.

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.

מְאוּרָהmeurahholeUses1

The words it stands beside

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.”

    Genesis 22:12

    • 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.

    Genesis 30:31

    • 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,

    Genesis 39:6

    • 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?”

    Genesis 39:9

    • 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.

    Genesis 39:23

    • 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.”

    Genesis 40:15

    • 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.”

    Numbers 22:38

    • 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,

    Deuteronomy 13:17

    • מְא֖וּמָהmeumahnoun · feminine singulartagged: anything
  • When you lend anything to your neighbor, do not enter his house to collect security.

    Deuteronomy 24:10

    • 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.

    Judges 14:6

    • 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.”

    1 Samuel 12:4

    • 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.

    1 Samuel 12:5

    • 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.”

    1 Samuel 20:26

    • מְא֖וּמָהmeumahnoun · feminine singulartagged: anything
  • But the boy did not know anything; only Jonathan and David knew the arrangement.

    1 Samuel 20:39

    • 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.

    1 Samuel 21:2

    • 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.

    1 Samuel 25:7

    • 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.

    1 Samuel 25:15

    • 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.

    1 Samuel 25:21

    • 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.”

    1 Samuel 29:3

    • 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!”

    2 Samuel 3:35

    • 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.

    2 Samuel 13:2

    • 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.

    1 Kings 10:21

    • 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.”

    1 Kings 18:43

    • 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.”

    2 Kings 5:20

    • 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.

    2 Chronicles 9:20

    • 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.

    Ecclesiastes 5:14

    • 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.

    Ecclesiastes 5:15

    • 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.

    Ecclesiastes 7:14

    • 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.

    Ecclesiastes 9:5

    • 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.

    Jeremiah 39:10

    • מְא֔וּמָהmeumahnoun · feminine singulartagged: anything
  • “Take him, look after him, and do not let any harm come to him; do for him whatever he says.”

    Jeremiah 39:12

    • 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.

    Jonah 3:7

    • מְא֔וּמָהmeumahnoun · feminine singulartagged: anything

The letters

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.

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Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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