Biblical Hebrew

hebrew #4579 - מֵעָה maah (a grain (of sand))

Original Word:	מֵעָה
Transliteration:	maah
Definition:	a grain (of sand)
Part of Speech:	Noun Feminine
Phonetic Spelling:	(may-aw')
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

gravel

Feminine of me'ah; the belly, i.e. (figuratively) interior -- gravel.

see HEBREW me'ah

Englishman's Concordance

1) grain (of sand)
Part of Speech: noun feminine
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from H4578
Same Word by TWOT Number: 1227b

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[מָעָה] noun femininegrain (of sand), si vera lectio (Late Hebrew מָעָה, seed (of melon, etc.), coin, Aramaic

, מָעָאcoin); — only feminine plural suffix: וַיְהִי כַחוֺל זֵרְעֶ֔ךָ וְצֶאֱצָאֵימֵעֶיךָ כִּמְעֹתָיוּIsaiah 48:19and thy seed had been like the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the grains thereof, compare ᵑ9ᵑ7 De Di Du and others > plural of [מֵעֶה] the entrails of it (i.e. the sea) AE Ges Hi Che^Comm. — ᵐ5ὡς ὁ χοῦς τῆς γῆς, whence Gr כְּעפרותיו.

מָעוֺג see עוג. מָעוֺז, מָעֹז see עוז (compare עזז).

I, II. מָעוֺן, מְע(וֺ)נָה, מְעוֺנֹתַי see עון.

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 4579. מְעֹת (maah) — 1 Occurrence
Isaiah 48:19
HEB:וְצֶאֱצָאֵ֥י מֵעֶ֖יךָ כִּמְעֹתָ֑יו לֹֽא־ יִכָּרֵ֧ת
NAS: And your offspring like its grains; Their name
KJV: of thy bowels like the gravel thereof; his name
INT: and the offspring bowels grains never be cut

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