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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 583 times in 511 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 11 (Gen 25:7–Num 2:4)

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 25:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:7 - And these are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived, an hundred H3967 threescore and fifteen years.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 25:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:17 - And these are the years of the life of Ishmael, an hundred H3967 and thirty and seven years: and he gave up the ghost and died; and was gathered unto his people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:12 - Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: H3967 and the LORD blessed him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:6 - And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother Esau, and also he cometh to meet thee, and four hundred H3967 men with him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:14 - Two hundred H3967 she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred H3967 ewes, and twenty rams,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:1 - And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau came, and with him four hundred H3967 men. And he divided the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two handmaids.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:19 - And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for an hundred H3967 pieces of money.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 35:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:28 - And the days of Isaac were an hundred H3967 and fourscore years.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 45:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:22 - To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred H3967 pieces of silver, and five changes of raiment.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 47:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:9 - And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred H3967 and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 47:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:28 - And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred H3967 forty and seven years.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 50:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:22 - And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house: and Joseph lived an hundred H3967 and ten years.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 50:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:26 - So Joseph died, being an hundred H3967 and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 6:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:16 - And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari: and the years of the life of Levi were an hundred H3967 thirty and seven years.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 6:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:18 - And the sons of Kohath; Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel: and the years of the life of Kohath were an hundred H3967 thirty and three years.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 6:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:20 - And Amram took him Jochebed his father's sister to wife; and she bare him Aaron and Moses: and the years of the life of Amram were an hundred H3967 and thirty and seven years.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:37

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:37 - And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred H3967 thousand on foot that were men, beside children.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:40

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:40 - Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred H3967 and thirty years.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:41

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:41 - And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred H3967 and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 14:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:7 - And he took six hundred H3967 chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over every one of them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 18:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:21 - Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, H3967 rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 18:25

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:25 - And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, H3967 rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 27:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:9 - And thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen of an hundred H3967 cubits long for one side:

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 27:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:11 - And likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings of an hundred H3967 cubits long, and his twenty pillars and their twenty sockets of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 27:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:18 - The length of the court shall be an hundred H3967 cubits, and the breadth fifty every where, and the height five cubits of fine twined linen, and their sockets of brass.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 30:23

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:23 - Take thou also unto thee principal spices, of pure myrrh five hundred H3967 shekels, and of sweet cinnamon half so much, even two hundred H3967 and fifty shekels, and of sweet calamus two hundred H3967 and fifty shekels,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 30:24

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:24 - And of cassia five hundred H3967 shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of oil olive an hin:

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 38:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:9 - And he made the court: on the south side southward the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, an hundred H3967 cubits:

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 38:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:11 - And for the north side the hangings were an hundred H3967 cubits, their pillars were twenty, and their sockets of brass twenty; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 38:24

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:24 - All the gold that was occupied for the work in all the work of the holy place, even the gold of the offering, was twenty and nine talents, and seven hundred H3967 and thirty shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 38:25

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:25 - And the silver of them that were numbered of the congregation was an hundred H3967 talents, and a thousand seven hundred H3967 and threescore and fifteen shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:26 - A bekah for every man, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for every one that went to be numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred H3967 thousand and three thousand and five hundred H3967 and fifty men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:27 - And of the hundred H3967 talents of silver were cast the sockets of the sanctuary, and the sockets of the vail; an hundred H3967 sockets of the hundred H3967 talents, a talent for a socket.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:28 - And of the thousand seven hundred H3967 seventy and five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their chapiters, and filleted them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:29 - And the brass of the offering was seventy talents, and two thousand and four hundred H3967 shekels.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:8 - And five of you shall chase an hundred, H3967 and an hundred H3967 of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:21 - Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Reuben, were forty and six thousand and five hundred. H3967

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:23 - Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Simeon, were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred. H3967

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:25 - Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Gad, were forty and five thousand six hundred H3967 and fifty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:27 - Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Judah, were threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred. H3967

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:29 - Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Issachar, were fifty and four thousand and four hundred. H3967

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:31 - Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Zebulun, were fifty and seven thousand and four hundred. H3967

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:33 - Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Ephraim, were forty thousand and five hundred. H3967

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:35

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:35 - Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Manasseh, were thirty and two thousand and two hundred. H3967

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:37

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:37 - Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty and five thousand and four hundred. H3967

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:39

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:39 - Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Dan, were threescore and two thousand and seven hundred. H3967

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:41

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:41 - Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Asher, were forty and one thousand and five hundred. H3967

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:43

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:43 - Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Naphtali, were fifty and three thousand and four hundred. H3967

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:46

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:46 - Even all they that were numbered were six hundred H3967 thousand and three thousand and five hundred H3967 and fifty.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:4 - And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred. H3967

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