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me.ah marks a cardinal quantity used for officials and for stated amounts of animals, goods, and measures.
The attested use marks a cardinal quantity: Daniel 6:2 places it with officials, while Ezra 6:17 and Ezra 7:22 use it in enumerated offerings and limits for provisions and measures.
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Cardinal quantity in enumerations · dominant
All supplied forms are tagged Cardinal, singular, and absolute. In Daniel 6:2 the form occurs in the arrangement of officials; in Ezra 6:17 the APB renders the enumerated offerings as “one hundred bulls,” “two hundred rams,” and “four hundred lambs”; and in Ezra 7:22 it renders repeated limits as “up to a hundred” for silver, wheat, wine, and oil.
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the quantity explicitly in Ezra 6:17 and Ezra 7:22, including “one hundred” and repeated “up to a hundred.” In Daniel 6:2, the supplied translation presents the officials' arrangement without an equally clear English counterpart.