STRONGS NUMBER H4579


Word Summary
maah: a grain (of sand)
Original Word: מֵעָה
Transliteration: maah
Phonetic Spelling: (may-aw')
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: a grain (of sand)
Meaning: the belly, interior
Strong's Concordance
gravel

Feminine of me'ah; the belly, i.e. (figuratively) interior -- gravel.

see HEBREW me'ah

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H4579. maah

[מָעָה‎] noun feminine grain (of sand), si vera lectio (Late Hebrew מָעָה‎, seed (of melon, etc.), coin, Aramaic , מָעָאcoin); — only feminine plural suffix: כִּמְעֹתָיוּ מֵעֶיךָ וְצֶאֱצָאֵי זֵרְעֶ֔ךָ כַחוֺל וַיְהִיIsaiah 48:19 and thy seed had been like the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the grains thereof, compare ᵑ7 ᵑ9‎ De Di Du and others > plural of [מֵעֶה‎] the entrails of it (i.e. the sea) AE Ges Hi CheComm.ᵐ5ὡς ὁ χοῦς τῆς γῆς, whence Gr כְּעפרותיו‎.

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

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