H4579

מָעָה

me.ahH:N-F

grain

grain (of sand)

Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry

[מָעָה] noun feminine grain (of sand), si vera lectio (Late Hebrew מָעָה, seed (of melon, etc.), coin, Aramaic , מָעָא coin); — only feminine plural suffix: וַיְהִי כַחוֺל זֵרְעֶ֔ךָ וְצֶאֱצָאֵי מֵעֶיךָ כִּמְעֹתָיוּ Isa 48:19 and thy seed had been like the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the grains thereof, compare ᵑ9 ᵑ7 De Di Du and others > plural of [מֵעֶה] the entrails of it (i.e. the sea) AE Ges Hi CheComm. — ᵐ5 ὡς ὁ χοῦς τῆς γῆς, whence Gr כְּעפרותיו.


מָעוֺג see עוג. מָעוֺז, מָעֹז see עוז (compare עזז).


I, II. מָעוֺן, מְע(וֺ)נָה, מְעוֺנֹתַי see עון.


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