Capacity
מְשׂוּרָהStrong’s H4884mesurah (me-su-rah)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mesurah is the Hebrew word usually translated “measure”, “volume” and “measurement”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.”
Meaning
- Measure
How it's translated
- by measure 2
- and in volume 1
- measurement 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 2
- Leviticus 1
- 1 Chronicles 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Chronicles 23:29Both for the shewbread, and for the fine flour for meat offering, and for the unleavened cakes, and for that which is baked in the pan, and for that which is fried, and for all manner of measure and size;
- Ezekiel 4:11Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.
- Ezekiel 4:16Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment:
Hebrew dictionary
מְשׂוּרָה mesurah · capacity
measure
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “capacity” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CAPACITY, noun
- Passive power; the power of containing, or holding; extent of room or space; as the capacity of a vessel, or a cask.
- The extent or comprehensiveness of the mind; the power of receiving ideas or knowledge.
- Active power; ability; applied to men or things; but less common, and correct.
- State; condition; character; profession; occupation.
All definitions
- Ability, in a moral or legal sense; qualification; legal power or right; as, a man or a corporation may have a capacity to give or receive and hold estate.
- In geometry, the solid contents of a body.
- In chimistry, that state, quality or constitution of bodies, by which they absorb and contain, or render latent, any fluid; as the capacity of water for caloric.
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.