H3969 H3969
Hundred; the Aramaic cardinal number one hundred, used in compound numerals for counting people, animals, and commodities.
The Aramaic feminine noun for 'hundred,' appearing in Ezra and Daniel in both absolute and dual forms. At the temple dedication, the returning exiles offered one hundred bulls, two hundred rams, and four hundred lambs (Ezr 6:17), while Artaxerxes authorized up to a hundred talents of silver and a hundred cors of wheat (Ezr 7:22). The dual form matayim ('two hundred') appears alongside the absolute. French cent and German hundert translate the numeral straightforwardly, while Spanish uses both cien and ciento depending on syntactic position.
Senses
1. hundred (cardinal number) — The cardinal number one hundred, used in enumerations of sacrificial animals, commodities, and administrative units. In Ezra 6:17, the dedication offerings are counted as one hundred bulls, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs, and twelve goats; in Ezra 7:22 Artaxerxes specifies up to a hundred talents of silver, a hundred cors of wheat, a hundred baths of wine, and a hundred baths of oil. Daniel 6:2 records 'a hundred and twenty satraps.' The dual form matayim ('two hundred') and the absolute meʾah ('hundred') reflect standard Aramaic numeral morphology. Spanish cien/ciento and French cent render the value directly. 8×
AR["مِائتَيْن", "مِائَة", "مِائَةً"]·ben["একশ", "একশত-", "একশো", "দুইশ"]·DE["hundert"]·EN["a-hundred", "hundred", "two-hundred"]·FR["cent"]·heb["מאה", "מאתין"]·HI["दो-सौ", "सौ"]·ID["dua-ratus", "ratus", "seratus"]·IT["[מאה]", "cento"]·jav["atus", "kalih-atus", "satus"]·KO["백", "이백"]·PT["cem", "cento", "duzentos", "quatrocentos"]·RU["двести", "сто"]·ES["cien", "ciento", "cuatrocientos", "doscientos"]·SW["mia", "mia-mbili", "mia-moja", "nne"]·TR["iki-yuz", "yuz", "yüz"]·urd["ایک-سو", "دو-سو", "سو"]
Related Senses
H3605 1. all, every, whole (5352×)H0259 1. one (cardinal numeral) (940×)H8147 1. cardinal number two (666×)G3956 1. all (collective plural) (616×)H3967 1. cardinal numeral hundred (550×)H1419a 1. great, large (general quality) (486×)H7969 1. cardinal number three (431×)H0505 1. cardinal number thousand (427×)H7651 1. seven (cardinal number) (393×)G1520 1. cardinal number one (339×)H6240 1. ten (cardinal number) (334×)H6242 1. twenty (cardinal number) (315×)H2568 1. cardinal number five (309×)H0702 1. four (cardinal number) (277×)G3956 2. every, each (distributive) (227×)H8337 1. six (cardinal number) (215×)G3956 3. all things, everything (substantive) (211×)G3956 4. (187×)H6235 1. ten (177×)G3173 1. great in size or extent (176×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† מְאָה n.f. hundred (v. BH);—abs. מ׳ after noun enum., Ezr 6:17; 7:22(×4), so אַרְבַּע מ׳ 6:17, מ׳ וְעֶשְׂרִין Dn 6:2, and du. מָאתַ֫יִן Ezr 6:17.