meuma · anything

What it means

meuma (מְאוּמָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “anything”.

Something, anything; with "not", nothing.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Anything at all; with «not», nothing.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• anything ×20
• nothing ×10
• any kind ×1
• something ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×6
• Numbers×1
• Deuteronomy×2
• Judges×1
• 1 Samuel×9
• 2 Samuel×2
• 1 Kings×2
• 2 Kings×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Ecclesiastes×4
• Jeremiah×2
• Jonah×1

• Genesis 22:12

  He said, “Do not stretch out your hand against the boy, and do not do anything to him, for now I know that you fear Elohim, since you have not withheld your son, your only one, from me.”

• Genesis 30:31

  He said, “What shall I give you?” Jacob said, “You shall not give me anything. If you will do for me this thing, I will again pasture your flock and keep it.

• Genesis 39:6

  He left all that he had in the hand of Joseph, and with him there he did not concern himself with anything except the bread that he ate. Now Joseph was well-built and handsome.

• Genesis 39:9

  He is not greater in this house than I, and he has not withheld from me anything except you, because you are his wife. How then could I do this great evil and sin against Elohim?”

• Genesis 39:23

  The chief of the prison did not look into anything in his hand, because YHWH was with him; and whatever he did, YHWH made successful.

• Genesis 40:15

  For I was stolen away from the land of the Hebrews, and here too I have done nothing that they should put me into the pit.”

• Numbers 22:38

  And Balaam said to Balak, “Look, I have come to you now. Am I at all able to speak anything? The word that Elohim puts in my mouth, that I will speak.”

• Deuteronomy 13:17

  Nothing of what is devoted to destruction shall cling to your hand, so that YHWH may turn from the burning of his anger and give you mercy and have mercy on you and multiply you, as he swore to your fathers,

• Deuteronomy 24:10

  When you lend your neighbor a loan of any kind, you shall not go into his house to take his pledge.

• Judges 14:6

  And the spirit of YHWH came powerfully upon him, and he tore it apart as one tears apart a young goat, and he had nothing in his hand; but he did not tell his father or his mother what he had done.

• 1 Samuel 12:4

  They said, “You have not exploited us, and you have not crushed us, and you have not taken anything from the hand of anyone.”

• 1 Samuel 12:5

  He said to them, “YHWH is witness against you, and his anointed is witness this day, that you have not found anything in my hand.” And he said, “Witness.”

• 1 Samuel 20:26

  But Saul did not say anything on that day, for he said, “It is an accident; he is not clean; surely he is not clean.”

• 1 Samuel 20:39

  But the boy did not know anything; only Jonathan and David knew the matter.

• 1 Samuel 21:2

  David said to Ahimelech the priest, “The king has commanded me a matter and said to me, ‘Let no one know anything of the matter on which I am sending you and which I have commanded you.’ And the young men I have directed to such and such a place.

• 1 Samuel 25:7

  Now I have heard that you have shearers. Now, the shepherds who are yours were with us; we did not wrong them, and nothing of theirs went missing all the days they were in Carmel.

• 1 Samuel 25:15

  Yet the men were very good to us; we were not wronged, and we did not miss anything all the days we went about with them when we were in the field.

• 1 Samuel 25:21

  Now David had said, “Surely in vain I have guarded all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missing of all that was his; and he has repaid me evil for good.

• 1 Samuel 29:3

  The commanders of the Philistines said, “What are these Hebrews?” Achish said to the commanders of the Philistines, “Is this not David, the servant of Saul king of Israel, who has been with me these days, or these years? I have found nothing in him from the day he deserted to me until this day.”

• 2 Samuel 3:35

  Then all the people came to make David eat bread while it was still day; but David swore, saying, “So may Elohim do to me, and so may he add, if before the sun goes down I taste bread or anything at all.”

• 2 Samuel 13:2

  Amnon was so distressed that he made himself ill because of Tamar his sister, for she was a virgin, and it seemed impossible in the eyes of Amnon to do anything to her.

• 1 Kings 10:21

  And all the drinking vessels of King Solomon were of gold, and all the utensils of the house of the Forest of Lebanon were of fine gold; there was no silver; it was not considered in the days of Solomon as anything.

• 1 Kings 18:43

  He said to his young man, “Go up, please, look toward the sea.” And he went up and looked and said, “There is nothing.” And he said, “Go back,” seven times.

• 2 Kings 5:20

  Gehazi, the young man of Elisha the man of Elohim, said, “Look, my master has spared this Naaman, the Aramean, by not taking from his hand what he brought. As YHWH lives, I will surely run after him and take something from him.”

• 2 Chronicles 9:20

  All the drinking vessels of King Solomon were of gold, and all the utensils of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were of fine gold; silver was not considered as anything in the days of Solomon.

• Ecclesiastes 5:14

  and those riches are lost in a bad occupation, and he fathers a son, and there is nothing in his hand.

• Ecclesiastes 5:15

  As he came out from the womb of his mother, naked he will go away again as he came; and nothing will he take from his toil that he may carry in his hand.

• Ecclesiastes 7:14

  In the day of good, be in the good, and in the day of evil, see: also this one alongside that one Elohim has made, so that the human being may not find anything after him.

• Ecclesiastes 9:5

  For the living know that they will die, but the dead do not know anything, and there are no more wages for them, for their memory is forgotten.

• Jeremiah 39:10

  But of the people, the poor who had nothing Nebuzaradan the chief of the guard left in the land of Judah, and he gave them vineyards and fields on that day.

• Jeremiah 39:12

  “Take him, and set your eyes on him, and do not do to him anything bad; but as he speaks to you, so do with him.”

• Jonah 3:7

  And he had it proclaimed and said in Nineveh, by decree of the king and his great men, saying, “Human being and livestock, herd and flock, are not to taste anything; they are not to graze, and water they are not to drink.