Meaning of “measure”

1. Measure — Several words are so rendered in the Authorized Version. (1.) Those which are indefinite. (a) Hok, Isa. 5:14, elsewhere "statute." (b) Mad, Job 11:9; Jer. 13:25, elsewhere "garment." (c) Middah, the word most frequently thus translated, Ex. 26:2, 8, etc. (d) Mesurah, Lev. 19:35; 1 Chr. 23:29. (e) Mishpat, Jer. 30:11, elsewhere "judgment." (f) Mithkoneth and token, Ezek. 45:11. (g) In New Testament metron, the usual Greek word thus rendered (Matt. 7:2; 23:32; Mark 4:24). (2.) Those which are definite. (a) 'Eyphah, Deut. 25:14, 15, usually "ephah." (b) Ammah, Jer. 51:13, usually "cubit." (c) Kor, 1 Kings 4:22, elsewhere "cor;" Greek koros, Luke 16:7. (d) Seah, Gen. 18:6; 1 Sam. 25:18, a seah; Greek saton, Matt. 13:33; Luke 13:21. (e) Shalish, "a great measure," Isa. 40:12; literally a third, i.e., of an ephah. (f) In New Testament batos, Luke 16:6, the Hebrew "bath;" and choinix, Rev. 6:6, the choenix, equal in dry commodities to one-eighth of a modius.

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1. Genesis Chapter 18 Verse 6 — And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes upon the hearth.

2. Exodus Chapter 26 Verse 8 — The 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.

3. Exodus Chapter 26 Verse 2 — The 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.

4. Leviticus Chapter 19 Verse 35 — Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.

5. Numbers Chapter 35 Verse 5 — And ye shall measure from without the city on the east side two thousand cubits, and on the south side two thousand cubits, and on the west side two thousand cubits, and on the north side two thousand cubits; and the city shall be in the midst: this shall be to them the suburbs of the cities.

6. Deuteronomy Chapter 21 Verse 2 — Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain:

7. Deuteronomy Chapter 25 Verse 15 — But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

8. Deuteronomy Chapter 25 Verse 14 — Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small.

9. Joshua Chapter 3 Verse 4 — Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure: come not near unto it, that ye may know the way by which ye must go: for ye have not passed this way heretofore.

10. Ruth Chapter 3 Verse 17 — And she said, These six measures of barley gave he me; for he said to me, Go not empty unto thy mother in law.

11. Ruth Chapter 3 Verse 15 — Also he said, Bring the vail that thou hast upon thee, and hold it. And when she held it, he measured six measures of barley, and laid it on her: and she went into the city.

12. 1 Samuel Chapter 25 Verse 18 — Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses.

13. 2 Samuel Chapter 8 Verse 2 — And he smote Moab, and measured them with a line, casting them down to the ground; even with two lines measured he to put to death, and with one full line to keep alive. And so the Moabites became David's servants, and brought gifts.

14. 1 Kings Chapter 4 Verse 22 — And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal,

15. 1 Kings Chapter 5 Verse 11 — And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil: thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year.

16. 1 Kings Chapter 6 Verse 25 — And the other cherub was ten cubits: both the cherubim were of one measure and one size.

17. 1 Kings Chapter 7 Verse 37 — After this manner he made the ten bases: all of them had one casting, one measure, and one size.

18. 1 Kings Chapter 7 Verse 11 — And above were costly stones, after the measures of hewed stones, and cedars.

19. 1 Kings Chapter 7 Verse 9 — All these were of costly stones, according to the measures of hewed stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the foundation unto the coping, and so on the outside toward the great court.

20. 1 Kings Chapter 18 Verse 32 — And with the stones he built an altar in the name of the LORD: and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed.

21. 2 Kings Chapter 7 Verse 18 — And it came to pass as the man of God had spoken to the king, saying, Two measures of barley for a shekel, and a measure of fine flour for a shekel, shall be to morrow about this time in the gate of Samaria:

22. 2 Kings Chapter 7 Verse 16 — And the people went out, and spoiled the tents of the Syrians. So a measure of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to the word of the LORD.

23. 2 Kings Chapter 7 Verse 1 — Then Elisha said, Hear ye the word of the LORD; Thus saith the LORD, To morrow about this time shall a measure of fine flour be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.

24. 1 Chronicles Chapter 23 Verse 29 — Both 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;

25. 2 Chronicles Chapter 2 Verse 10 — And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.

26. 2 Chronicles Chapter 3 Verse 3 — Now these are the things wherein Solomon was instructed for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure was threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.

27. 2 Chronicles Chapter 27 Verse 5 — He fought also with the king of the Ammonites, and prevailed against them. And the children of Ammon gave him the same year an hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. So much did the children of Ammon pay unto him, both the second year, and the third.

28. Ezra Chapter 7 Verse 22 — Unto an hundred talents of silver, and to an hundred measures of wheat, and to an hundred baths of wine, and to an hundred baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much.

29. Job Chapter 11 Verse 9 — The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.

30. Job Chapter 28 Verse 25 — To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.

31. Job Chapter 38 Verse 5 — Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?

32. Psalms Chapter 39 Verse 4 — LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is: that I may know how frail I am.

33. Psalms Chapter 80 Verse 5 — Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.

34. Proverbs Chapter 20 Verse 10 — Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.

35. Isaiah Chapter 5 Verse 14 — Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.

36. Isaiah Chapter 27 Verse 8 — In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.

37. Isaiah Chapter 40 Verse 12 — Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

38. Isaiah Chapter 65 Verse 7 — Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the LORD, which have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom.

39. Jeremiah Chapter 13 Verse 25 — This is thy lot, the portion of thy measures from me, saith the LORD; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.

40. Jeremiah Chapter 30 Verse 11 — For I am with thee, saith the LORD, to save thee: though I make a full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee, yet I will not make a full end of thee: but I will correct thee in measure, and will not leave thee altogether unpunished.

41. Jeremiah Chapter 31 Verse 37 — Thus saith the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the LORD.

42. Jeremiah Chapter 33 Verse 22 — As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me.

43. Jeremiah Chapter 46 Verse 28 — Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the LORD: for I am with thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee: but I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in measure; yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished.

44. Jeremiah Chapter 51 Verse 13 — O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness.

45. Ezekiel Chapter 4 Verse 16 — Moreover 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:

46. Ezekiel Chapter 4 Verse 11 — Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.

47. Ezekiel Chapter 40 Verse 10 — And the little chambers of the gate eastward were three on this side, and three on that side; they three were of one measure: and the posts had one measure on this side and on that side.

48. Ezekiel Chapter 40 Verse 9 — Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and the posts thereof, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was inward.

49. Ezekiel Chapter 40 Verse 8 — He measured also the porch of the gate within, one reed.

50. Ezekiel Chapter 40 Verse 6 — Then came he unto the gate which looketh toward the east, and went up the stairs thereof, and measured the threshold of the gate, which was one reed broad; and the other threshold of the gate, which was one reed broad.

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