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Lexicon :: Strong's H3967 - mē'â

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מֵאָה
Transliteration
mē'â
Pronunciation
may-aw'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Properly, a primitive numeral; a hundred
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TWOT Reference: 1135

Strong’s Definitions

מֵאָה mêʼâh, may-aw'; or מֵאיָה mêʼyâh; properly, a primitive numeral a hundred; also as a multiplicative and a fraction:—hundred((-fold), -th), sixscore.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 581x

The KJV translates Strong's H3967 in the following manner: hundred (571x), eleven hundred (with H505) (3x), hundredth (3x), hundredfold (2x), sixscore (with H6242) (1x), hundred times (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 581x
The KJV translates Strong's H3967 in the following manner: hundred (571x), eleven hundred (with H505) (3x), hundredth (3x), hundredfold (2x), sixscore (with H6242) (1x), hundred times (1x).

  1. hundred

    1. as simple number

    2. as part of larger number

    3. as a fraction - one one-hundredth (1/100)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מֵאָה mêʼâh, may-aw'; or מֵאיָה mêʼyâh; properly, a primitive numeral a hundred; also as a multiplicative and a fraction:—hundred((-fold), -th), sixscore.
STRONGS H3967: Abbreviations
I. מֵאָה 583 noun feminine hundred (Late Hebrew id.; MI20 מאתן (dual); SI5 מאת, מאתים (dual); Phoenician מאת מאתם (dual); Assyrian mê (probably, Dl§ 75), Tel Amarna mê-at WklTelAm 20*; Arabic bdb054703 Sabean מאת מאתם OsZMG x. 1856, 49; CISiv. i. 6, 4; 46, 6; מאה EutSin 457; Ethiopic bdb054704; Aramaic מְאָה, bdb054705; Palmyrene תלת מאה 300VogPalm 6, 4; Nabataean מאה EutNab 8, 9); — מ׳ Genesis 6:3 144 times; construct מְאַת Genesis 5:3 + 30 times (on מְאַת Ecclesiastes 8:12 see 2d below); plural absolute מֵאוֺת Genesis 5:9 324 times (מֵאֹת only Genesis 5:4, 30); המאיות Kt 2 Kings 11:4 + 3 times 2 Kings 11; dual מָאתַיִם (תָ֑יִם -) Genesis 11:19 + 76 times (but 1 Samuel 18:27 read מֵאָה (מְאַת) Greek Version of the LXX We Dr Kit Bu HPS); — hundred: —
1. as simple number:
a. absolute singular,
(1) following by singular of noun enumerated: מֵאָה קְשִׂיטָה Genesis 33:19; Joshua 24:32 (both E); אִישׁ מ׳ Judges 7:19; 1 Kings 18:13; 2 Kings 4:43; אַמָּה מ׳ 1 Kings 7:2; Ezekiel 40:19 +; כִּכָּר מ׳ 2 Kings 23:33; 2 Chronicles 25:6; 27:5; 36:3; Ezra 8:26; אֶלֶף מ׳ = 100,000 1 Kings 20:29 + 6 times Kings Chronicles; compare also Genesis 17:17 (P), 2 Samuel 8:4; Isaiah 65:20 (twice in verse), and followed by collective noun רֶכֶב 2 Samuel 8:4 = 1 Chronicles 18:4, צאֹן 1 Kings 5:3;
(2) less often followed by plural מֵאָה שְׁעָרִים Genesis 26:12 (J), פְּעָמִים מ׳ 2 Samuel 24:3 = 1 Chronicles 21:3, נְבִיאִים מ׳ 1 Kings 18:4, etc.;
(3) seldom, and late, preceded by plural noun: הָרִמֹּנִים מֵאָה Jeremiah 52:23, אַמּוֺת הַמֵּאָה Ezekiel 42:2, compare Ezra 2:69; 2 Chronicles 3:16; 4:8; 29:32;
(4) exceptional is מֵאָה לְכִּכָּרִים כְּלֵי כֶסֶף Ezra 8:26; also, with ellipsis, מֵאָה כֶסֶף Deuteronomy 22:19 (i.e. shekels); מֵאָה קַיִץ 2 Samuel 16:1 (i.e. cakes);
(5) מֵאָה without noun enumerated, especially = a hundred (men, persons) Judges 20:10 (twice in verse); Amos 5:3 (twice in verse); Leviticus 26:8 (twice in verse) (H), 1 Chronicles 12:14; מ׳ Proverbs 17:10 100 (blows), Ecclesiastes 6:3 100 (children), Ecclesiastes 8:12 100 (times). — On Nehemiah 3:1; Nehemiah 12:39 see below
b. absolute dual,
(1) foll, by singular, מָאתַיִם אִישׁ 1 Samuel 18:27; 1 Samuel 30:10; 2 Samuel 15:11, לֶחֶם מ׳ 1 Samuel 25:18; 2 Samuel 16:1, צִנָּה מ׳ 1 Kings 10:16 2 Chronicles 9:15, אֶלֶף מ׳ 1 Samuel 15:4 +, שָׁנָה מ׳ Genesis 11:23 (P);
(2) less often followed by plural שְׁקָלִים מ׳ Joshua 7:21 (JE), 2 Samuel 14:26, דְּבֵלִים מ׳ 1 Samuel 25:18, אֲנָשִׁים מ׳ 1 Samuel 30:21, compare Ezra 8:4;
(3) also preceded by plural noun: עִוִּים מ׳ Genesis 32:15, רְחֵלִים מ׳ Genesis 32:15 (E), הָרִמּוֺנִים מ׳ 1 Kings 7:20, compare 1 Chronicles 15:8; 2 Chronicles 29:32; Ezra 2:65;
(4) with ellipsis כֶּסֶף מ׳ Judges 17:4;
(5) as predicate, רָאשֵׁיהֶם מ׳ 1 Chronicles 12:32 (33 van d. H).
c. absolute plural ׃מֵא(וֺ)ת —
(1) alone, = hundreds, לְמֵאוֺת 1 Samuel 29:2 by hundreds, so 2 Samuel 18:4 (both + thousands); especially שָׂרֵי (הַ)מּ׳ captains of (the) hundreds Exodus 18:21, 25 (E), 2 Kings 11:4, 9, 10, 15 +;
(2) multiplied, followed by noun enumerated, in singular: אִישׁ שְׁלשׁ מ׳ Judges 7:6, 300 men, compare Judges 7:7; Judges 7:8; Judges 7:16; Judges 8:4; Exodus 12:27 (E), etc.; שָׁנָה אַרְבַּע מ׳ Genesis 15:13 (JE) 400 years; אֶלֶף חֲמֵשׁ מ׳ 2 Samuel 24:9 500,000, compare 2 Chronicles 13:17; רֶכֶב שֵׁשׁ מ׳ Exodus 14:7 (J) 600 chariots; אִישׁ שְׁבַע מ׳ Judges 20:15, 16 700 men; חָלָל שְׁמֹנֶה מ׳ 2 Samuel 23:8 800 slain; רֶכֶב תְּשַׁע מ׳ Judges 4:3, 13 900 chariots;
(3) less often followed by plural noun: שׁוּעָלִים שְׁלשׁ מ׳ Judges 15:4 300 foxes; אֲתוֺנוֺת חֲמֵשׁ מ׳ Job 1:3 500 she-asses, etc.;
(4) rare, and chiefly late, after plural noun מִּלַגְשִׁים שְׁלשׁ מ׳ 1 Kings 11:3 300 concubines, compare 1 Kings 7:42 2 Chronicles 4:13; 1 Chronicles 4:42; 2 Chronicles 14:8 etc.; after.collective noun בָּקָר חֲמֵשׁ מ׳ 2 Chronicles 35:9;
(5) rare is בַּשֶּׁקֶל חֲמֵשׁ מ׳ Exodus 30:24 (P);
(6) ellipsis of n., כֶּסֶף שְׁלשׁ מ׳ Genesis 45:22 (E), etc.
d. construct singular, only followed by singular, and late: מְאַתשָֿׁנָה Genesis 11:10; Genesis 21:5; Genesis 25:7 (all P) + 25 times P, 1 Chronicles 25:9; Esther 1:4 (DrIntr. 124) (also with other numerals, see 2 below); מְאַ֖ת Ecclesiastes 8:12 100 times (מֵאָה מְּעָמִיםׅ, sc. מַּעַם, or perhaps only apparently construct (Köii. 228 compare Ew§ 269 b. 279 e). — Nehemiah 5:11 see 3 below
2. as part of larger number:
a. usually preceding tens and units,
(1) with noun expressed once, or not at all, earlier usage, usually with וְ before ten if no unit follows, otherwise without וְ before ten (see Köii. 218 ff.): מֵאָה וְעֶשֶׂר שָׂרִים Judges 2:8; שִׁשִּׁים וָשֵׁשׁ כִּכָּר שֵׁשׁ מֵאוֺת 1 Kings 10:14 666 talents, etc. (exceptions are Nehemiah 7:24 and Nehemiah 7:31);
(2) chiefly late, with noun and וְ repeated: שָׁנָה וְעֶשְׂרִים שָׁנָה מֵאָה שָׁנִים וְשֶׁבַע Genesis 23:1 (P) (compare ואלף אמה ומאת אמה SI5.6 DaExpos. Times. May, 1898).
b. less often, following tens and units, chiefly late, with וְ repeated: — עֶשְׂרִים וּמֵאָה Numbers 7:86 (P); שֶׁבַע וּשְׁלשִׁים וּמְאַת שָׁנָה Exodus 6:16 (P), etc.; with noun after ten and after hundred, חָמֵשׁ וְשִׁשִּׁים שָׁנָה וּשְׁלשׁ מֵאוֺת שָׁנָה Genesis 5:23(P), etc. — On these usages see, further, Köii. 217 ff. DaSynt. §§ 36 R. 3, 37 (d) Ges §§ 97, 134 and especially HernerSynt. d. Zahlw-rter im AT (1893).
3. מְאַת הַכֶּסֶף Nehemiah 5:11 = a hundredth part of the money; but read quite possibly מַשַּׁאת the debt (GeiJüd. Zeitschr. viii. 1870, 227 Gr.)

See related Aramaic BDB entry H3969.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

5:3; 5:3; 5:4; 5:9; 5:23; 5:30; 6:1; 6:3; 11:10; 11:19; 11:23; 15:13; 17:17; 21:5; 23:1; 25:7; 26:12; 32:15; 32:15; 33:19; 45:22

Exodus

6:16; 12:27; 14:7; 18:21; 18:25; 30:24

Leviticus

26:8

Numbers

7:86

Deuteronomy

22:19

Joshua

7:21; 24:32

Judges

2:8; 4:3; 4:13; 7:6; 7:7; 7:8; 7:16; 7:19; 8:4; 15:4; 17:4; 20:10; 20:15; 20:16

1 Samuel

15:4; 18:27; 18:27; 25:18; 25:18; 29:2; 30:10; 30:21

2 Samuel

8:4; 8:4; 14:26; 15:11; 16:1; 16:1; 18:4; 23:8; 24:3; 24:9

1 Kings

5:3; 7:2; 7:20; 7:42; 10:14; 10:16; 11:3; 18:4; 18:13; 20:29

2 Kings

4:43; 11; 11:4; 11:4; 11:9; 11:10; 11:15; 23:33

1 Chronicles

4:42; 12:14; 12:32; 15:8; 18:4; 21:3; 25:9

2 Chronicles

3:16; 4:8; 4:13; 9:15; 13:17; 14:8; 25:6; 27:5; 29:32; 29:32; 35:9; 36:3

Ezra

2:65; 2:69; 8:4; 8:26; 8:26

Nehemiah

3:1; 5:11; 5:11; 7:24; 7:31; 12:39

Esther

1:4

Job

1:3

Proverbs

17:10

Ecclesiastes

6:3; 8:12; 8:12; 8:12

Isaiah

65:20

Jeremiah

52:23

Ezekiel

40:19; 42:2

Amos

5:3

H3967

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Strong's Number H3967 matches the Hebrew מֵאָה (mē'â),
which occurs 579 times in 511 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 11 (Gen 5:3–Gen 23:16)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:3 - And Adam lived two hundred and thirty years, and begot a son after his own form, and after his own image, and he called his name Seth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:4 - And the days of Adam, which he lived after his begetting Seth, were seven hundred years; and he begot sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:5 - And all the days of Adam which he lived were nine hundred and thirty years, and he died.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:6 - Now Seth lived two hundred and five years, and begot Enos.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:7 - And Seth lived after his begetting Enos, seven hundred and seven years, and he begot sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:8 - And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years, and he died.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:10 - And Enos lived after his begetting Cainan, seven hundred and fifteen years, and he begot sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:11 - And all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years, and he died.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:13 - And Cainan lived after his begetting Maleleel, seven hundred and forty years, and he begot sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:14 - And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years, and he died.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:16 - And Maleleel lived after his begetting Jared, seven hundred and thirty years, and he begot sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:17 - And all the days of Maleleel were eight hundred and ninety and five years, and he died.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:18 - And Jared lived an hundred and sixty and two years, and begot Enoch:

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:19 - and Jared lived after his begetting Enoch, eight hundred years, and he begot sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:20 - And all the days of Jared were nine hundred and sixty and two years, and he died.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:22 - And Enoch was well-pleasing to God after his begetting Mathusala, two hundred years, and he begot sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:23 - And all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty and five years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:25 - And Mathusala lived [fn]an hundred and sixty and seven years, and begot Lamech.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:26 - And Mathusala lived after his begetting Lamech [fn]eight hundred and two years, and begot sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:27 - And all the days of Mathusala which he lived, were nine hundred and sixty and nine years, and he died.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:28 - And Lamech lived an hundred and eighty and eight years, and begot a son.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:30 - And Lamech lived after his begetting Noe, five hundred and sixty and five years, and begot sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:31 - And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred and fifty-three years, and he died.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:32 - And Noe was five hundred years old, and he begot three sons, Sem, [fn]Cham, and Japheth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:3 - And the Lord God said, My Spirit shall certainly not remain among these men for ever, because they are flesh, but their days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:15 - And thus shalt thou make the ark; three hundred cubits the length of the ark, and fifty cubits the breadth, and thirty cubits the height of it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:6 - And Noe was six hundred years old when the flood of water was upon the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:11 - In the six hundredth year of the life of Noe, in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, on this day all the fountains of the abyss were broken up, and the [fn]flood-gates of heaven were opened.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:24 - And the water was raised over the earth an hundred and fifty days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:3 - And the water subsided, and went off the earth, and after an hundred and fifty days the water was diminished, and the ark rested in the seventh month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:13 - And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year of the life of Noe, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the water subsided from off the earth, and Noe opened the covering of the ark which he had made, and he saw that the water had subsided from the face of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:28 - And Noe lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:29 - And all the days of Noe were nine hundred and fifty years, and he died.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:10 - And these are the generations of Sem: and Sem was a hundred years old when he begot Arphaxad, the second year after the flood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:11 - And Sem lived, after he had begotten Arphaxad, five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:13 - And Arphaxad lived after he had begotten Cainan, [fn]four hundred years, and begot sons and daughters, and died. And Cainan lived a hundred and thirty years and begot Sala; and Cainan lived after he had begotten Sala, three hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:15 - And Sala lived after he had begotten Heber, three hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:17 - And Heber lived after he had begotten Phaleg [fn]two hundred and seventy years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:19 - And Phaleg lived after he had begotten Ragau, two hundred and nine years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:21 - And Ragau lived after he had begotten Seruch, two hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:23 - And Seruch lived after he had begotten Nachor, two hundred years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:25 - And Nachor lived after he had begotten Tharrha, [fn]an hundred and twenty-five years, and begot sons and daughters, and he died.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:32 - And all the days of Tharrha in the land of Charrhan were two hundred and five years, and Tharrha died in Charrhan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:14 - And Abram having heard that Lot his nephew had been taken captive, numbered his own home-born servants three hundred and eighteen, and pursued after them to Dan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:13 - And it was said to Abram, Thou shalt surely know that thy seed shall be a sojourner in a land not their own, and they shall enslave them, and afflict them, and humble them four hundred years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:17 - And Abraam fell upon his face, and laughed; and spoke in his heart, saying, Shall there be a child to one who is a hundred years old, and shall Sarrha who is ninety years old, bear?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:5 - And Abraam was a hundred years old when Isaac his son was born to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:1 - And the life of Sarrha was an hundred and twenty-seven years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:15 - Nay, my lord, I have heard indeed, the land is worth four hundred silver didrachms, but what can this be between me and thee? nay, do thou bury thy dead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:16 - And Abraam hearkened to Ephron, and Abraam rendered to Ephron the money, which he mentioned in the ears of the sons of Chet, four hundred didrachms of silver approved with merchants.

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