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Lexicon :: Strong's H3966 - mᵊ'ōḏ

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מְאֹד
Transliteration
mᵊ'ōḏ
Pronunciation
meh-ode'
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Part of Speech
masculine adjective, adverb, substantive
Root Word (Etymology)
From the same as אוּד (H181)
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 1134

Variant Spellings

The following spelling is supported by Strongs and Gesenius: מאד.

Strong’s Definitions

מְאֹד mᵉʼôd, meh-ode'; from the same as H181; properly, vehemence, i.e. (with or without preposition) vehemently; by implication, wholly, speedily, etc. (often with other words as an intensive or superlative; especially when repeated):—diligently, especially, exceeding(-ly), far, fast, good, great(-ly), × louder and louder, might(-ily, -y), (so) much, quickly, (so) sore, utterly, very ( much, sore), well.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 299x

The KJV translates Strong's H3966 in the following manner: very (137x), greatly (49x), sore (23x), exceeding (18x), great (12x), exceedingly (11x), much (10x), exceeding (with H3966) (6x), exceedingly (with H3966) (5x), diligently (4x), good (3x), might (2x), mightily (2x), miscellaneous (17x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 299x
The KJV translates Strong's H3966 in the following manner: very (137x), greatly (49x), sore (23x), exceeding (18x), great (12x), exceedingly (11x), much (10x), exceeding (with H3966) (6x), exceedingly (with H3966) (5x), diligently (4x), good (3x), might (2x), mightily (2x), miscellaneous (17x).
adverb

  1. exceedingly, much

    substantive

  2. might, force, abundance

    masculine adjective

  3. muchness, force, abundance, exceedingly

    1. force, might

    2. exceedingly, greatly, very (idioms showing magnitude or degree)

      1. exceedingly

      2. up to abundance, to a great degree, exceedingly

      3. with muchness, muchness

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מְאֹד mᵉʼôd, meh-ode'; from the same as H181; properly, vehemence, i.e. (with or without preposition) vehemently; by implication, wholly, speedily, etc. (often with other words as an intensive or superlative; especially when repeated):—diligently, especially, exceeding(-ly), far, fast, good, great(-ly), × louder and louder, might(-ily, -y), (so) much, quickly, (so) sore, utterly, very ( much, sore), well.
STRONGS H3966: Abbreviations
מְאֹד noun masculine muchness, force, abundance, exceedingly (compare Assyrian mu'du, abundance, HomZMG 1878, 711 ('treasures ana mu'di, in abundance') DlHWB 399): —
1. force, might, Deuteronomy 6:5 וּבְכָלמְֿאֹדֶ֑ךָ and with all thy might; hence 2 Kings 23:25.
2. in different idioms (298 times) to express the idea of exceedingly, greatly, very (whether of magnitude or degree):
a. (so mostly) as adverb accusative, qualifying both adjectives and obs., Genesis 1:31 טוֺב מְאֹד good exceedingly, Genesis 4:5 וַיִּחַד לְקַיִן מְאֹד and Cain was wroth exceedingly, Genesis 7:18 מְאֹד וַיִּרְבּוּ הַמַּיִם וַיִּגְבְּרוּ, Genesis 12:14; Genesis 13:2 בַּמִּקְנֶה מְאֹד כָּבֵד וְאַבְרָם, Genesis 13:13 מאד חַטָּאִים לי׳, Genesis 18:20; Genesis 19:3, 9; Genesis 21:11; Genesis 24:16, 35, + often, Psalm 46:2 נִמְצָא מְאֹד עֶזְרָה בְצָרוֺת as a help in troubles, to be found (= present) exceedingly; with an infinitive Isaiah 47:9 בְּעָצְמַת חֲבָרַיִח מְאֹד despite of thy spells being very numerous, Joshua 9:13 מֵרֹב הַדֶּרֶךְ מְאֹד, 1 Kings 7:47; הַרְבֵּה מְאֹד Genesis 15:1; Genesis 41:49; Deuteronomy 3:5 +, for which in the later language is found לָרֹב מְאֹד Zechariah 14:14; 2 Chronicles 4:18; 9:9 (in 1 Kings 10:10 הַרְבֵּה מְאֹד); 2 Chronicles 24:24; 30:13, and even לְהַרְבֵּה מְאֹד 2 Chronicles 11:12; 16:8. מְאֹד is not usually separated from the word it qualifies by more than one or two words (as Genesis 20:8 האנשׁים מאד וייראו, Numbers 11:10 מאד ויחר אף י׳); see, however, Deuteronomy 30:14; Judges 12:2; 2 Samuel 12:5; 1 Kings 11:19; Psalm 31:12. It precedes its verb, † Psalm 47:10 מְאֹד נַעֲלָה (hence Psalm 97:9), Psalm 92:6.
b. עַדמְֿאֹד up to abundance, to a great degree, exceedingly, † Genesis 27:33 חֲדָדָה גְּדֹלָה עַדמֿ׳, Genesis 27:34; 1 Samuel 11:15 וישׂמח ֗֗֗ עד מ׳, 1 Samuel 25:36 וְהוּא שִׁכֹּר עַדמֿ׳, 2 Samuel 2:17; 1 Kings 1:4; Isaiah 64:8 (compare Lamentations 5:22), Lamentations 5:11; Psalm 38:7; Psalm 38:9; Psalm 119:8; Psalm 119:43; Psalm 119:51; Psalm 119:107; Daniel 8:8; Daniel 11:25.
c. עַדלִֿמְאֹד (see עַד לְ) † 2 Chronicles 16:14.
d. duplicated (Ges§ 113 k), †Genesis 7:19 מ׳ מ׳ גָּֽנְרוּ וְהַמַּיִם, Genesis 30:43; Numbers 14:7; 1 Kings 7:47; 2 Kings 10:4; Ezekiel 37:10.
e. בִּמְאֹד מְאֹד literally with muchness, muchness, † Genesis 17:2, 6, 20; Exodus 1:7 (all P), Ezekiel 9:9; Ezekiel 16:13.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

1:31; 4:5; 7:18; 7:19; 12:14; 13:2; 13:13; 15:1; 17:2; 17:6; 17:20; 18:20; 19:3; 19:9; 20:8; 21:11; 24:16; 24:35; 27:33; 27:34; 30:43; 41:49

Exodus

1:7

Numbers

11:10; 14:7

Deuteronomy

3:5; 6:5; 30:14

Joshua

9:13

Judges

12:2

1 Samuel

11:15; 25:36

2 Samuel

2:17; 12:5

1 Kings

1:4; 7:47; 7:47; 10:10; 11:19

2 Kings

10:4; 23:25

2 Chronicles

4:18; 9:9; 11:12; 16:8; 16:14; 24:24; 30:13

Psalms

31:12; 38:7; 38:9; 46:2; 47:10; 92:6; 97:9; 119:8; 119:43; 119:51; 119:107

Isaiah

47:9; 64:8

Lamentations

5:11; 5:22

Ezekiel

9:9; 16:13; 37:10

Daniel

8:8; 11:25

Zechariah

14:14

H3966

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Strong's Number H3966 matches the Hebrew מְאֹד (mᵊ'ōḏ),
which occurs 300 times in 278 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 6 (Num 14:7–1Sa 5:11)

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:7 - and said to all the congregation of the people of Israel, “The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceedingly good land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:39

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:39 - When Moses told these words to all the people of Israel, the people mourned greatly.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 16:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:15 - And Moses was very angry and said to the LORD, “Do not respect their offering. I have not taken one donkey from them, and I have not harmed one of them.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 22:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:3 - And Moab was in great dread of the people, because they were many. Moab was overcome with fear of the people of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 22:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:17 - for I will surely do you great honor, and whatever you say to me I will do. Come, curse this people for me.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:1 - Now the people of Reuben and the people of Gad had a very great number of livestock. And they saw the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead, and behold, the place was a place for livestock.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 2:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:4 - and command the people, “You are about to pass through the territory of your brothers, the people of Esau, who live in Seir; and they will be afraid of you. So be very careful.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 3:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:5 - All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, besides very many unwalled villages.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:9 - “Only take care, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things that your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. Make them known to your children and your children’s children—

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:15 - “Therefore watch yourselves very carefully. Since you saw no form on the day that the LORD spoke to you at Horeb out of the midst of the fire,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 6:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:3 - Hear therefore, O Israel, and be careful to do them, that it may go well with you, and that you may multiply greatly, as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 6:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:5 - You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 9:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:20 - And the LORD was so angry with Aaron that he was ready to destroy him. And I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 17:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:17 - And he shall not acquire many wives for himself, lest his heart turn away, nor shall he acquire for himself excessive silver and gold.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 20:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:15 - Thus you shall do to all the cities that are very far from you, which are not cities of the nations here.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 24:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:8 - “Take care, in a case of leprous[fn] disease, to be very careful to do according to all that the Levitical priests shall direct you. As I commanded them, so you shall be careful to do.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:54

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:54 - The man who is the most tender and refined among you will begrudge food to his brother, to the wife he embraces,[fn] and to the last of the children whom he has left,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 30:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:14 - But the word is very near you. It is in your mouth and in your heart, so that you can do it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:7 - Only be strong and very courageous, being careful to do according to all the law that Moses my servant commanded you. Do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success[fn] wherever you go.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 3:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:16 - the waters coming down from above stood and rose up in a heap very far away, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan, and those flowing down toward the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, were completely cut off. And the people passed over opposite Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 8:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:4 - And he commanded them, “Behold, you shall lie in ambush against the city, behind it. Do not go very far from the city, but all of you remain ready.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 9:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:9 - They said to him, “From a very distant country your servants have come, because of the name of the LORD your God. For we have heard a report of him, and all that he did in Egypt,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 9:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:13 - These wineskins were new when we filled them, and behold, they have burst. And these garments and sandals of ours are worn out from the very long journey.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 9:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:22 - Joshua summoned them, and he said to them, “Why did you deceive us, saying, ‘We are very far from you,’ when you dwell among us?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 9:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:24 - They answered Joshua, “Because it was told to your servants for a certainty that the LORD your God had commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you—so we feared greatly for our lives because of you and did this thing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 10:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:2 - he[fn] feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, like one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all its men were warriors.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 10:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:20 - When Joshua and the sons of Israel had finished striking them with a great blow until they were wiped out, and when the remnant that remained of them had entered into the fortified cities,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 11:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:4 - And they came out with all their troops, a great horde, in number like the sand that is on the seashore, with very many horses and chariots.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 13:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:1 - Now Joshua was old and advanced in years, and the LORD said to him, “You are old and advanced in years, and there remains yet very much land to possess.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 22:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:5 - Only be very careful to observe the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in all his ways and to keep his commandments and to cling to him and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 22:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:8 - he said to them, “Go back to your tents with much wealth and with very much livestock, with silver, gold, bronze, and iron, and with much clothing. Divide the spoil of your enemies with your brothers.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 23:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:6 - Therefore, be very strong to keep and to do all that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, turning aside from it neither to the right hand nor to the left,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 23:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:11 - Be very careful, therefore, to love the LORD your God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:15 - Whenever they marched out, the hand of the LORD was against them for harm, as the LORD had warned, and as the LORD had sworn to them. And they were in terrible distress.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 3:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:17 - And he presented the tribute to Eglon king of Moab. Now Eglon was a very fat man.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:6 - And Israel was brought very low because of Midian. And the people of Israel cried out for help to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 10:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:9 - And the Ammonites crossed the Jordan to fight also against Judah and against Benjamin and against the house of Ephraim, so that Israel was severely distressed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:33 - And he struck them from Aroer to the neighborhood of Minnith, twenty cities, and as far as Abel-keramim, with a great blow. So the Ammonites were subdued before the people of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 12:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:2 - And Jephthah said to them, “I and my people had a great dispute with the Ammonites, and when I called you, you did not save me from their hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 13:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:6 - Then the woman came and told her husband, “A man of God came to me, and his appearance was like the appearance of the angel of God, very awesome. I did not ask him where he was from, and he did not tell me his name,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:18 - And he was very thirsty, and he called upon the LORD and said, “You have granted this great salvation by the hand of your servant, and shall I now die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:9 - They said, “Arise, and let us go up against them, for we have seen the land, and behold, it is very good. And will you do nothing? Do not be slow to go, to enter in and possess the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 19:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:11 - When they were near Jebus, the day was nearly over, and the servant said to his master, “Come now, let us turn aside to this city of the Jebusites and spend the night in it.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 1:13

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:13 - would you therefore wait till they were grown? Would you therefore refrain from marrying? No, my daughters, for it is exceedingly bitter to me for your sake that the hand of the LORD has gone out against me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 1:20

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:20 - She said to them, “Do not call me Naomi;[fn] call me Mara,[fn] for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:17 - Thus the sin of the young men was very great in the sight of the LORD, for the men treated the offering of the LORD with contempt.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:22 - Now Eli was very old, and he kept hearing all that his sons were doing to all Israel, and how they lay with the women who were serving at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 4:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:10 - So the Philistines fought, and Israel was defeated, and they fled, every man to his home. And there was a very great slaughter, for thirty thousand foot soldiers of Israel fell.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 5:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 5:9 - But after they had brought it around, the hand of the LORD was against the city, causing a very great panic, and he afflicted the men of the city, both young and old, so that tumors broke out on them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 5:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 5:11 - They sent therefore and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines and said, “Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it return to its own place, that it may not kill us and our people.” For there was a deathly panic throughout the whole city. The hand of God was very heavy there.

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