Measure
מִדָּהStrong’s H4060middah (mid-dah)
Appears in 53 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Middah is the Hebrew word usually translated “measurement”, “measured portion” and “according to the measurements”. It appears in 53 verses of the Old Testament.
“I lifted up mine eyes again, and looked, and behold a man with a measuring line in his hand.”
Meaning
- Measure, measurement, stature, size, garmentmeasure, act of measurement · measurement, size · measured portion, extent · garment
- (BDB) tribute
- A man living at the time of United Monarchy, first mentioned at 2Sa.21.20
How it's translated
- measurement 11
- a measured portion 7
- according to the measurements 6
- size 5
- stature 4
- a measurement 3
- according to measurements of 2
- like measurement of 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 23
- Nehemiah 8
- Exodus 4
- 1 Kings 4
- 1 Chronicles 3
- Psalms 2
14 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 26:2The length of one curtain shall be eight and twenty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and every one of the curtains shall have one measure.
- Exodus 26:8The length of one curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and the eleven curtains shall be all of one measure.
- Exodus 36:9The length of one curtain was twenty and eight cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: the curtains were all of one size.
- Exodus 36:15The length of one curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits was the breadth of one curtain: the eleven curtains were of one size.
- Leviticus 19:35Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.
- Numbers 13:32And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature.
All 53 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
מִדָּה middah · measure
1) measure, measurement, stature, size, garment 1a) measure, act of measurement 1b) measurement, size 1c) measured portion, extent 1d) garment
מִדָּה middah · tribute
(BDB) tribute Aramaic equivalent: mid.dah (מִנְדָּה "tribute" H4061)
מִדָּה middah · `great stature`
A man living at the time of United Monarchy, first mentioned at 2Sa.21.20; son of: Rapha (H7497A); brother of: Goliath (H1555), Ishbi-benob (H3430), Saph (H5593), Lahmi (H3902) § (BDB) tribute
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “measure” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
MEASURE, noun
mezh'ur. [Latin mensura, from mensus, with a casual n, the participle of metior, to measure; Eng. to mete.]
- The whole extent or dimensions of a thing, including length, breadth and thickness.“The measure thereof is longer than the earth and broader than the sea” Job 11:9
- That by which extent or dimension is ascertained, either length, breadth, thickness, capacity, or amount; as, a rod or pole is a measure of five yards and a half; an inch, a foot, a yard, are measures of length; a gallon is a measure of capacity.
- A limited or definite quantity; as a measure of wine or beer.
- Determined extent or length; limit.“Lord, make me to know my end, and the measure of my days” Psalms 39:4
All definitions and other forms of “measure”
- A rule by which any thing is adjusted or proportioned.
- Proportion; quantity settled.
- Full or sufficient quantity.
- Extent of power or office.“We will not boast of things without our measure” 2 Corinthians 10:13
- Portion allotted; extent of ability.
- Degree; quantity indefinite.
- In music, that division by which the motion of music is regulated; or the interval or space of time between the rising and falling of the hand or foot of him who beats time.
- In poetry, the measure or meter is the manner of ordering and combining the quantities, or the long and short syllables.
- In dancing, the interval between steps, corresponding to the interval between notes in the music.
- In geometry, any quantity assumed as one or unity, to which the ratio of other homogeneous or similar quantities is expressed.
- Means to an end; an act, step or proceeding towards the accomplishment of an object; an extensive signification of the word, applicable to almost every act preparatory to a final end, and by which it is to be attained.
MEASURE, verb transitive
mezh'ur. To compute or ascertain extent, quantity, dimensions or capacity by a certain rule; as, to measure land; to measure distance; to measure the altitude of a mountain; to measure the capacity of a ship or of a cask.
- To ascertain the degree of any thing; as, to measure the degrees of heat, or of moisture.
- To pass through or over.
- To judge of distance, extent or quantity; as, to measure any thing by the eye.
- To adjust; to proportion.
- To allot or distribute by measure“With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again” Matthew 7:2
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.