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HebrewH3968Noun

מֵאָה

me.ah

2Occurrences
H3968Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Meah, a tower in Jerusalem

the same as H3967 (מֵאָה);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
Combined with mig.dal (*מִגְדָּל *"Tower" H4026H) § Meah = "hundred" a tower on the north rampart of Jerusalem in the wall of Nehemiah

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

N:N--L

Full Description

N:N--L

Occurrences

מֵאָה appears 2 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Nehemiah
2

Key Passages

Nehemiah 12:39BSB

over the Gate of Ephraim, the Jeshanah Gate, the Fish Gate, the Tower of Hananel, and the Tower of the Hundred, as far as the Sheep Gate. And they stopped at the Gate of the Guard.

Nehemiah 3:1BSB

At the Sheep Gate, Eliashib the high priest and his fellow priests began rebuilding. They dedicated it and installed its doors. After building as far as the Tower of the Hundred and the Tower of Hananel, they dedicated the wall.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.