Tally
מַתְכֹ֫נֶתStrong’s H4971matkhonet (mat-kho-net)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Matkhonet is the Hebrew word usually translated “measurement its”, “measurement of” and “proportion its”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish ought thereof: for they be idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.”
Meaning
- Measurement, proportion, taletale, tally (of bricks) · measurement, proportion
How it's translated
- measurement its 2
- measurement of 1
- and in proportion its 1
- in proportion its 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 3
- 2 Chronicles 1
- Ezekiel 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 30:32Upon man’s flesh shall it not be poured, neither shall ye make any other like it, after the composition of it: it is holy, and it shall be holy unto you.
- Exodus 30:37And as for the perfume which thou shalt make, ye shall not make to yourselves according to the composition thereof: it shall be unto thee holy for the LORD.
- 2 Chronicles 24:13So the workmen wrought, and the work was perfected by them, and they set the house of God in his state, and strengthened it.
- Ezekiel 45:11The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer.
Hebrew dictionary
מַתְכֹ֫נֶת matkhonet · tally
1) measurement, proportion, tale 1a) tale, tally (of bricks) 1b) measurement, proportion
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “tally” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TAL'LY, noun
- A piece of wood on which notches or scores are cut, as the marks of number.
- One thing made to suit another.
All definitions and other forms of “tally”
TAL'LY, verb transitive
To score with correspondent notches; to fit; to suit; to make to correspond.
- In seamanship, to pull aft the sheets or lower corners of the main and fore-sail.
TAL'LY, verb intransitive
To be fitted; to suit; to correspond.
TALL'Y, adverb
Stoutly; with spirit.
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.