Lexical Summary meumah: anything Original Word: מְאוּמָהTransliteration: meumah Phonetic Spelling: (meh-oo'-maw) Part of Speech: pronoun indefinite Short Definition: anything Meaning: a speck, point, nothing Strong's Concordance fault, nothing, ought, somewhat, any nothing Apparently a form of m'uwm; properly, a speck or point, i.e. (by implication) something; with negative, nothing -- fault, + no(-ught), ought, somewhat, any ((no-))thing. see HEBREW m'uwm Brown-Driver-Briggs H3972. meumah מְא֫וּמָה32 pronoun indefinite anything (according to Thes from וּמָה מָה, 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 מאומה לו ואלתֿעשׂ (euphem. for something bad), 30:31 לֹאתִֿתֶּןלִֿי מאומה, 39:6, 9; 40:15 (euphemism), 1 Samuel 12:4-5, 20:26, 39; 25:7, 15, 21; 29:3 etc., Judges 14:6 בידו אין ומאומה, Ecclesiastes 5:14 ׳ומ בעמלו ישׂא לא 1 Kings 18:43 מ ׳אין literally nought of anything ! Jeremiah 39:12 רָּע מאומה לו תעשׂ ואל; strengthened by כֹּל Genesis 39:23; 2 Samuel 3:35; after אִם = surely not, 3:35; in interrogative sentence Numbers 22:38; in affirm. sentence Deuteronomy 24:10 מ מַשֵּׁאת ׳בְרֵעֲךָ כִּיתַֿשֶּׁה a pledge of (= consisting in) anything, 2 Samuel 13:2 (euphemism), 2 Kings 5:20. Used adverbially, 1 Samuel 21:3 מ ידע אל ׳אישׁ הדבר את let no one know of the matter in anything at all. מָאוֺר, [מְאוּרָה] see אור. [מאזן], מאֹזְנַיִם see II. אזן. |
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