Bible dictionaries

Meah

What Bible dictionaries say about “Meah”, one article after the other.

Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary

Meah - (Easton's Bible Dictionary)

An hundred, a tower in Jersalem on the east wall (Neh. 3:1) in the time of Nehemiah.

Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)

The article in Easton + Webster 1828

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE 1915)

me'-a (me'ah, "hundred").

See HAMMEAH.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia — James Orr, general editor and contributors; CrossWire SWORD module ISBE 2.2

The article in ISBE 1915

Smith’s Bible Dictionary

(a hundred), The tower of, one of the towers of the wall of Jerusalem when rebuilt by Nehemiah, (Nehemiah 3:1; 12:39) appears to have been situated somewhere at the northeast part of the city, outside of the walls of Zion.

William Smith; revised by F. N. Peloubet and M. A. Peloubet; CrossWire SWORD module Smith 1.3

The article in Smith