Bible word study

Meod (Strong’s H3966): Meaning in the Bible

Meod (מְאֹד) is the Hebrew word numbered H3966 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as properly, vehemence, i.e. (with or without preposition) vehemently; by implication, wholly, speedily, etc. (often with other words as an intensive or superlative; especially when repeated). In the King James Bible it is translated diligently, especially, exceeding(-ly), far, fast.

• Original wordמְאֹד
• Transliterationmᵉʼôd
• Pronunciationmeh-ode'
• Part of speechadjective (a)
• Strong’s numberH3966
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. from the same as H181;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Meod appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Meod (H3966) stands behind 286 English renderings in 276 verses across 28 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Psalms (35), Genesis (33), 1 Samuel (30).

How the King James Bible renders Meod, by count

• very136 of 286 (48 percent)
• greatly49 of 286 (17 percent)
• sore23 of 286 (8 percent)
• exceeding18 of 286 (6 percent)
• great12 of 286 (4 percent)
• exceedingly11 of 286 (4 percent)

Three places to read Meod

• Genesis 1:31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
• Judges 19:11 And when they were by Jebus, the day was far spent; and the servant said unto his master, Come, I pray thee, and let us turn in into this city of the Jebusites, and lodge in it.
• Ezra 10:1 Now when Ezra had prayed, and when he had confessed, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there assembled unto him out of Israel a very great congregation of men and women and children: for the people wept very sore.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Meod in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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