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Lexicon :: Strong's H3972 - mᵊ'ûmâ

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מְאוּמָה
Transliteration
mᵊ'ûmâ
Pronunciation
meh-oo'-maw
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Part of Speech
indefinite pronoun
Root Word (Etymology)
Apparently a form of מְאוּם (H3971)
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 1136

Variant Spellings

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

Strong’s Definitions

מְאוּמָה mᵉʼûwmâh, meh-oo'-maw; apparently a form of H3971; properly, a speck or point, i.e. (by implication) something; with negative, nothing:—fault, no(-ught), ought, somewhat, any (no-)thing.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 32x

The KJV translates Strong's H3972 in the following manner: any thing (12x), nothing (9x), ought (5x), any (2x), fault (1x), harm (1x), nought (1x), somewhat (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 32x
The KJV translates Strong's H3972 in the following manner: any thing (12x), nothing (9x), ought (5x), any (2x), fault (1x), harm (1x), nought (1x), somewhat (1x).

  1. anything

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מְאוּמָה mᵉʼûwmâh, meh-oo'-maw; apparently a form of H3971; properly, a speck or point, i.e. (by implication) something; with negative, nothing:—fault, no(-ught), ought, somewhat, any (no-)thing.
STRONGS H3972: Abbreviations
מְא֫וּמָה 32 pronoun indefinite anything (according to Thes from מָה וּמָה, like quidquid, against which is the Mil`el tone; according to Ol254, 255, 386 Köii. 146 an old accusative from מאוּם in sense of speck, particle, compare French point: in Assyrian manman (properly who ? who ?), assimilated mamman, or manma (man, who ? + generalizing ma), mamma, is any one, minma (min, what ? + ma), mimma, is anything, Dl§ 60, HWB 418 f; WSG 125 f.); — anything, usually in negative sentences, as Genesis 22:12 ואלתֿעשׂ לו מאומה (euphem. for something bad), Genesis 30:31 מאומה לֹאתִֿתֶּןלִֿי, Genesis 39:6, 9; Genesis 40:15 (euphemism), 1 Samuel 12:4, 5; 1 Samuel 20:26, 39; 1 Samuel 25:7, 15, 21; 1 Samuel 29:3 etc., Judges 14:6 ומאומה אין בידו, Ecclesiastes 5:14 לא ישׂא בעמלו ומ׳ 1 Kings 18:43 אין מ׳ literally nought of anything ! Jeremiah 39:12 ואל תעשׂ לו מאומה רָּע; strengthened by כֹּל † Genesis 39:23; 2 Samuel 3:35; after אִם = surely not, 2 Samuel 3:35; in interrogative sentence Numbers 22:38; in affirm. sentence Deuteronomy 24:10 כִּיתַֿשֶּׁה בְרֵעֲךָ מַשֵּׁאת מ׳ a pledge of (= consisting in) anything, 2 Samuel 13:2 (euphemism), 2 Kings 5:20. Used adverbially, 1 Samuel 21:3 את הדבר אישׁ אל ידע מ׳ let no one know of the matter in anything at all.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

22:12; 30:31; 39:6; 39:9; 39:23; 40:15

Numbers

22:38

Deuteronomy

24:10

Judges

14:6

1 Samuel

12:4; 12:5; 20:26; 20:39; 21:3; 25:7; 25:15; 25:21; 29:3

2 Samuel

3:35; 3:35; 13:2

1 Kings

18:43

2 Kings

5:20

Ecclesiastes

5:14

Jeremiah

39:12

H3972

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H3972 matches the Hebrew מְאוּמָה (mᵊ'ûmâ),
which occurs 32 times in 32 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 22:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:12 - “Do not lay a hand on the boy,” he said. “Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:31 - “What shall I give you?” he asked. “Don’t give me anything,” Jacob replied. “But if you will do this one thing for me, I will go on tending your flocks and watching over them:

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 39:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:6 - So Potiphar left everything he had in Joseph’s care; with Joseph in charge, he did not concern himself with anything except the food he ate. Now Joseph was well-built and handsome,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 39:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:9 - No one is greater in this house than I am. My master has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. How then could I do such a wicked thing and sin against God?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 39:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:23 - The warden paid no attention to anything under Joseph’s care, because the LORD was with Joseph and gave him success in whatever he did.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 40:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:15 - I was forcibly carried off from the land of the Hebrews, and even here I have done nothing to deserve being put in a dungeon.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 22:38

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:38 - “Well, I have come to you now,” Balaam replied. “But I can’t say whatever I please. I must speak only what God puts in my mouth.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 13:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:17 - and none of the condemned things[fn] are to be found in your hands. Then the LORD will turn from his fierce anger, will show you mercy, and will have compassion on you. He will increase your numbers, as he promised on oath to your ancestors—

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 24:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:10 - When you make a loan of any kind to your neighbor, do not go into their house to get what is offered to you as a pledge.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:6 - The Spirit of the LORD came powerfully upon him so that he tore the lion apart with his bare hands as he might have torn a young goat. But he told neither his father nor his mother what he had done.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 12:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:4 - “You have not cheated or oppressed us,” they replied. “You have not taken anything from anyone’s hand.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 12:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:5 - Samuel said to them, “The LORD is witness against you, and also his anointed is witness this day, that you have not found anything in my hand.” “He is witness,” they said.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 20:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:26 - Saul said nothing that day, for he thought, “Something must have happened to David to make him ceremonially unclean—surely he is unclean.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 20:39

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:39 - (The boy knew nothing about all this; only Jonathan and David knew.)

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 21:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:2 - David answered Ahimelek the priest, “The king sent me on a mission and said to me, ‘No one is to know anything about the mission I am sending you on.’ As for my men, I have told them to meet me at a certain place.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:7 - “ ‘Now I hear that it is sheep-shearing time. When your shepherds were with us, we did not mistreat them, and the whole time they were at Carmel nothing of theirs was missing.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:15 - Yet these men were very good to us. They did not mistreat us, and the whole time we were out in the fields near them nothing was missing.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:21 - David had just said, “It’s been useless—all my watching over this fellow’s property in the wilderness so that nothing of his was missing. He has paid me back evil for good.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 29:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 29:3 - The commanders of the Philistines asked, “What about these Hebrews?” Achish replied, “Is this not David, who was an officer of Saul king of Israel? He has already been with me for over a year, and from the day he left Saul until now, I have found no fault in him.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 3:35

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:35 - Then they all came and urged David to eat something while it was still day; but David took an oath, saying, “May God deal with me, be it ever so severely, if I taste bread or anything else before the sun sets!”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 13:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:2 - Amnon became so obsessed with his sister Tamar that he made himself ill. She was a virgin, and it seemed impossible for him to do anything to her.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 10:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:21 - All King Solomon’s goblets were gold, and all the household articles in the Palace of the Forest of Lebanon were pure gold. Nothing was made of silver, because silver was considered of little value in Solomon’s days.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 18:43

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:43 - “Go and look toward the sea,” he told his servant. And he went up and looked. “There is nothing there,” he said. Seven times Elijah said, “Go back.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 5:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:20 - Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said to himself, “My master was too easy on Naaman, this Aramean, by not accepting from him what he brought. As surely as the LORD lives, I will run after him and get something from him.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 9:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:20 - All King Solomon’s goblets were gold, and all the household articles in the Palace of the Forest of Lebanon were pure gold. Nothing was made of silver, because silver was considered of little value in Solomon’s day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:14 - or wealth lost through some misfortune, so that when they have children there is nothing left for them to inherit.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 5:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:15 - Everyone comes naked from their mother’s womb, and as everyone comes, so they depart. They take nothing from their toil that they can carry in their hands.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:14 - When times are good, be happy; but when times are bad, consider this: God has made the one as well as the other. Therefore, no one can discover anything about their future.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 9:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:5 - For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; they have no further reward, and even their name is forgotten.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 39:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 39:10 - But Nebuzaradan the commander of the guard left behind in the land of Judah some of the poor people, who owned nothing; and at that time he gave them vineyards and fields.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 39:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 39:12 - “Take him and look after him; don’t harm him but do for him whatever he asks.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jon 3:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:7 - This is the proclamation he issued in Nineveh: “By the decree of the king and his nobles: Do not let people or animals, herds or flocks, taste anything; do not let them eat or drink.
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