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title: מְאוּמָה — anything · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מְאוּמָה (3972), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 32 times: anything. BDB 1906: pron.indef. anything. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מְאוּמָה

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«מְאוּמָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **anything** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 32 times · **Key:** 3972 · **BDB:** מְא֫וּמָה

### Glosses

anything (31); of.anything (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

anything [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/3972/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

pron.indef. anything [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/3972/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** pron.indef. anything (according to Thes from מָה וּמָה, like quidquid, against which is the Mil‘el tone; according to Ol254, 255, 386 Köii. 146 an old accus. from מאוּם in sense of speck, particle, cf. Fr point: in Assyrian manman (proposes who? who?), assim. mamman, or manma (man, who? + generalizing ma), mamma, is any one, minma (min, what? + ma), mimma, is anything, Dl§ 60,DlHWB 418 f. WSG 125 f.);—anything, usually in negative sentences, as Gn 22:12 ואל־תעשׂ לו מאומה (euphem. for something bad), 30:31 לֹא־תִתֶּן־לִי מאומה, 39:6, 9; 40:15 (euphem.), 1 S 12:4, 5; 20:26, 39; 25:7, 15, 21; 29:3 etc., Ju 14:6 ומאומה אין בידו, Ec 5:14 ומ׳ לא ישׂא בעמלו, 1 K 18:43 אין מ׳ lit. nought of anything! Je 39:12 ואל תעשׂ לו מאומה רָּע; strengthened by כֹּל †Gn 39:23; 2 S 3:35; after אִם = surely not, 2 S 3:35; in interrog. sentence Nu 22:38; in affirm. sentence Dt 24:10 כִּי־תַשֶּׁה בֳרֵעֲךָ מַשַּׁאת מ׳ a pledge of (= consisting in) anything, 2 S 13:2 (euphem.), 2 K 5:20 (var. מוּמָח). Adverbially, 1 S 21:3 אישׁ אל ידע מ׳ את הדבר let no one know of the matter in anything at all.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech differs, 24 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech differs, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מְאוּמָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/3972/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Samuel 20:39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.20.39/)

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וְהַנַּ֖עַר לֹֽא־יָדַ֣ע מְא֑וּמָה אַ֤ךְ יְהֽוֹנָתָן֙ וְדָוִ֔ד יָדְע֖וּ אֶת־הַדָּבָֽר׃

*Word for word:* and the lad not he.knew anything only Jonathan and David they.knew (et) the matter

*JPS 1917:* But the lad knew not any thing; only Jonathan and David knew the matter.

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[Deuteronomy 24:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.24.10/)

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כִּֽי־תַשֶּׁ֥ה בְרֵֽעֲךָמַשַּׁ֣את מְא֑וּמָה לֹא־תָבֹ֥א אֶל־בֵּית֖וֹ לַעֲבֹ֥ט עֲבֹטֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* (dm) you.will.lend to neighbor your a.loan of.anything not you.will.go into house his to take.as.pledge pledge his

*JPS 1917:* When thou dost lend thy neighbour any manner of loan, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge.

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