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In biblical times, the term "hundreds" often referred to a numerical value, but it also held significance in various contexts, including military organization, societal structure, and symbolic representation. The concept of hundreds appears throughout the Bible, illustrating both literal and figurative meanings.

Numerical Value:

The number hundred is frequently used in the Bible to denote a specific quantity. For example, in Genesis 5:3, "When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness, after his own image, and he named him Seth." Here, the number is used to indicate the age of Adam when he fathered Seth. Similarly, in Genesis 6:15, God provides Noah with the dimensions of the ark, stating, "The ark is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high."

Military Organization:

In the context of military organization, the term "hundreds" is used to describe a division of soldiers. In 1 Samuel 22:7, King Saul addresses his servants, saying, "Listen, men of Benjamin! Will the son of Jesse give every one of you fields and vineyards? Will he make all of you commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds?" This passage highlights the hierarchical structure within the Israelite army, where soldiers were organized into units of hundreds and thousands.

Societal Structure:

The concept of hundreds also appears in the societal organization of ancient Israel. In Exodus 18:21, Moses' father-in-law, Jethro, advises him to appoint capable men as leaders over the people: "But select capable men from all the people—men who fear God, trustworthy men who hate dishonest gain—and appoint them as officials over thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens." This system of governance allowed for efficient administration and justice among the Israelites.

Symbolic Representation:

In some instances, the number hundred carries symbolic meaning, representing completeness or abundance. For example, in the parable of the lost sheep, Jesus speaks of a shepherd who leaves ninety-nine sheep to find the one that is lost, emphasizing the shepherd's dedication and the value of each individual (Matthew 18:12-14). The number hundred here symbolizes the totality of the flock.

Offerings and Tithes:

The concept of hundreds is also relevant in the context of offerings and tithes. In Leviticus 27:32, the law concerning tithes is outlined: "Every tenth animal that passes under the shepherd’s rod will be holy to the LORD." While the passage specifically mentions a tenth, the broader context of offerings often involved multiples of ten, including hundreds, as a measure of devotion and obedience to God.

Conclusion:

The use of hundreds in the Bible reflects its importance in various aspects of ancient life, from numerical precision to symbolic meaning. Whether in the context of military organization, societal governance, or spiritual teachings, the concept of hundreds provides insight into the cultural and religious practices of biblical times.

Greek

1540. hekaton -- a hundred
... Word Origin a prim. word Definition a hundred NASB Word Usage hundred (7),
hundredfold (4), hundreds (1), one hundred (4). hundred. ...
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Strong's Hebrew

3967. meah -- hundred
... 1), 800,000* (1), 822* (1), 832* (1), 845* (1), 928* (1), 945* (1), 956* (1), 973*
(2), eleven* (3), hundred (220), hundredfold* (1), hundreds (27), hundredth ...
/hebrew/3967.htm - 8k

Library

How Raguel Suggested to Moses to Set his People in Order, under ...
... CHAPTER 4. How Raguel Suggested To Moses To Set His People In Order, Under Their
Rulers Of Thousands, And Rulers Of Hundreds, Who Lived Without Order Before ...
/.../josephus/the antiquities of the jews/chapter 4 how raguel suggested.htm

The Coming Great Leaders.
... Here was an unusual opportunity. Where hundreds had come clear around the earth
to us, thousands have seized this opportunity close at hand. ...
/.../gordon/quiet talks with world winners/the coming great leaders.htm

Jehoiada and Joash
... And Athaliah did reign over the land.4. And the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched
the rulers over hundreds, with the captains and the guard, and brought ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture g/jehoiada and joash.htm

System of the Arithmeticians; Predictions through Calculations ...
... And in the case of hundreds, as many hundreds as there are, so many monads are the
root of them: for instance, of seven hundred there are seven hundreds; the ...
/.../the refutation of all heresies/chapter xiv system of the arithmeticians.htm

How Athaliah Reigned Over Jerusalem for Five [Six] Years when ...
... 2. Now, on the Seventh year, Jehoiada communicated the matter to certain of the
captains of hundreds, five in number, and persuaded them to be assisting to ...
/.../josephus/the antiquities of the jews/chapter 7 how athaliah reigned.htm

The Fulfilled Prophecies of the Bible Bespeak the Omniscience of ...
... How then can we explain the hundreds of detailed prophecies in the Scriptures which
have been literally fulfilled to the letter, hundreds of years after they ...
/.../the divine inspiration of the bible/chapter five the fulfilled prophecies.htm

The Hearing Ear and the Seeing Eye
... Consider the hundreds of human faces, the hundreds of different things and places,
which you can recollect; and then consider that all those different pictures ...
/.../kingsley/town and country sermons/sermon vi the hearing ear.htm

Of the Concord Between Matthew, Mark, and John in their Notices of ...
... one writer who, in giving his account of that incident, did not fail to specify
that the people sat down at once by fifties and by hundreds, although another ...
/.../augustine/the harmony of the gospels/chapter lxxix of the concord between.htm

The Solar Eclipse
... It is probable that hundreds and thousands of the human race will be attracted by
it, to study for a few hours at least, the science of astronomy. ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 4 1858/the solar eclipse.htm

The Rich and the Poor
... charity. Throughout the great cities of Europe"in London as much as
anywhere"hundreds of thousands are saying, "We want no alms. ...
/.../kingsley/all saints day and other sermons/sermon xliii the rich and.htm

Thesaurus

Units (14 Occurrences)
... Numbers 31:48 The officers who were over the thousands of the army, the captains
of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, came near to Moses; (See NIV). ...
/u/units.htm - 10k

Thousands (65 Occurrences)
... all the people able men, such as fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and
place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of ...
/t/thousands.htm - 29k

Inspectors (10 Occurrences)
... Numbers 31:14 and Moses is wroth against the inspectors of the force, chiefs of
the thousands, and chiefs of the hundreds, who are coming in from the host of ...
/i/inspectors.htm - 10k

Fifties (13 Occurrences)
... Multi-Version Concordance Fifties (13 Occurrences). Mark 6:40 They sat down in ranks,
by hundreds and by fifties. (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV). ...
/f/fifties.htm - 10k

Jehoi'ada (50 Occurrences)
... 2 Kings 11:4 And in the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the captains over
hundreds, of the Carites and of the guard, and brought them to him into the ...
/j/jehoi'ada.htm - 21k

Commanders (93 Occurrences)
... Numbers 31:14 and Moses is wroth against the inspectors of the force, chiefs of
the thousands, and chiefs of the hundreds, who are coming in from the host of ...
/c/commanders.htm - 36k

Tens (17 Occurrences)
... all the people able men, such as fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and
place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of ...
/t/tens.htm - 11k

Elishaphat (1 Occurrence)
... Whom God has judged, one of the "captains of hundreds" associated with Jehoiada
in the league to overthrow the usurpation of Athaliah (2 Chronicles 23:1). Int. ...
/e/elishaphat.htm - 7k

Marching (17 Occurrences)
... (See NAS). 1 Samuel 29:2 The lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds, and
by thousands; and David and his men passed on in the rearward with Achish. ...
/m/marching.htm - 12k

Captains (159 Occurrences)
... men, such as have the fear of God, true men hating profits wrongly made; and put
such men over them, to be captains of thousands, captains of hundreds and of ...
/c/captains.htm - 42k

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Hundreds (28 Occurrences)

Mark 6:40
They sat down in ranks, by hundreds and by fifties.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 18:21
Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 18:25
Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 31:14
Moses was angry with the officers of the army, the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds, who came from the service of the war.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 31:48
The officers who were over the thousands of the army, the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, came near to Moses;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 31:52
All the gold of the wave offering that they offered up to Yahweh, of the captains of thousands, and of the captains of hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred fifty shekels.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 31:54
Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the Tent of Meeting, for a memorial for the children of Israel before Yahweh.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Deuteronomy 1:15
So I took the heads of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens, and officers, according to your tribes.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Samuel 22:7
Saul said to his servants who stood about him, "Hear now, you Benjamites! Will the son of Jesse give everyone of you fields and vineyards, will he make you all captains of thousands and captains of hundreds,
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Samuel 29:2
The lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds, and by thousands; and David and his men passed on in the rearward with Achish.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Samuel 18:1
David numbered the people who were with him, and set captains of thousands and captains of hundreds over them.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Samuel 18:4
The king said to them, "I will do what seems best to you." The king stood beside the gate, and all the people went out by hundreds and by thousands.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Kings 11:4
In the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the captains over hundreds of the Carites and of the guard, and brought them to him into the house of Yahweh; and he made a covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house of Yahweh, and showed them the king's son.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS)

2 Kings 11:9
The captains over hundreds did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded; and they took every man his men, those who were to come in on the Sabbath, with those who were to go out on the Sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS)

2 Kings 11:10
The priest delivered to the captains over hundreds the spears and shields that had been king David's, which were in the house of Yahweh.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS)

2 Kings 11:15
Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of hundreds who were set over the army, and said to them, "Bring her out between the ranks. Kill him who follows her with the sword." For the priest said, "Don't let her be slain in the house of Yahweh."
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)

2 Kings 11:19
He took the captains over hundreds, and the Carites, and the guard, and all the people of the land; and they brought down the king from the house of Yahweh, and came by the way of the gate of the guard to the king's house. He sat on the throne of the kings.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)

1 Chronicles 13:1
David consulted with the captains of thousands and of hundreds, even with every leader.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Chronicles 26:26
This Shelomoth and his brothers were over all the treasures of the dedicated things, which David the king, and the heads of the fathers' houses, the captains over thousands and hundreds, and the captains of the army, had dedicated.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Chronicles 27:1
Now the children of Israel after their number, the heads of fathers' houses and the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and their officers who served the king, in any matter of the divisions which came in and went out month by month throughout all the months of the year-of every division were twenty-four thousand.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Chronicles 28:1
David assembled all the princes of Israel, the princes of the tribes, and the captains of the companies who served the king by division, and the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, and the rulers over all the substance and possessions of the king and of his sons, with the officers, and the mighty men, even all the mighty men of valor, to Jerusalem.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Chronicles 29:6
Then the princes of the fathers' houses, and the princes of the tribes of Israel, and the captains of thousands and of hundreds, with the rulers over the king's work, offered willingly;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Chronicles 1:2
Solomon spoke to all Israel, to the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and to the judges, and to every prince in all Israel, the heads of the fathers' houses.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Chronicles 23:1
In the seventh year Jehoiada strengthened himself, and took the captains of hundreds, Azariah the son of Jeroham, and Ishmael the son of Jehohanan, and Azariah the son of Obed, and Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri, into covenant with him.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

2 Chronicles 23:9
Jehoiada the priest delivered to the captains of hundreds the spears, and bucklers, and shields, that had been king David's, which were in the house of God.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS)

2 Chronicles 23:14
Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of hundreds who were set over the army, and said to them, Have her forth between the ranks; and whoever follows her, let him be slain with the sword: for the priest said, Don't kill her in the house of Yahweh.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS)

2 Chronicles 23:20
He took the captains of hundreds, and the nobles, and the governors of the people, and all the people of the land, and brought down the king from the house of Yahweh: and they came through the upper gate to the king's house, and set the king on the throne of the kingdom.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)

2 Chronicles 25:5
Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and ordered them according to their fathers' houses, under captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, even all Judah and Benjamin: and he numbered them from twenty years old and upward, and found them three hundred thousand chosen men, able to go forth to war, who could handle spear and shield.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

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