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מֵאָה

me.ah

(Tower of) the Hundred

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Strong’s H3968Proper name, a place2 times in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

hundred2

In the text

Nehemiah 3:1הַמֵּאָה
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.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

מֵאָה n.f. used as n.pr. of tower on northern wall of Jerus.

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.