Lexical Definition

‎מֵעָה‎ mêʻâh (may-aw') grain ^H:N-F
feminine of ‎מֵעֶה‎

gravel.

• the belly, i.e. (figuratively) interior

1) grain (of sand)

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[‎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 Che^Comm. — 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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