Topic
Measure; Measures
32 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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- Genesis 18:6ISBE
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.
- Exodus 26:2ISBE
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.
- Leviticus 19:35ISBE
¶ Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.
- Deuteronomy 25:14ISBE
Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small.
- Deuteronomy 25:15ISBE
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.
- 1 Samuel 25:18ISBE
¶ 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.
- 1 Kings 4:22ISBE
¶ And Solomon’s provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal,
- 1 Kings 5:2ISBE
And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying,
- 1 Kings 5:11ISBE
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.
- 1 Kings 18:32ISBE
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.
- 2 Kings 7:1ISBE
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.
- 2 Kings 7:16ISBE
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.
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- 2 Kings 7:18 ISBE
- 1 Chronicles 23:29 ISBE
- 2 Chronicles 2:10 ISBE
- Ezra 7:22 ISBE
- Job 11:9 ISBE
- Psalms 80:5 ISBE
- Psalms 80:6 ISBE
- Proverbs 20:10 ISBE
- Isaiah 5:14 ISBE
- Isaiah 27:8 ISBE
- Isaiah 40:12 ISBE
- Jeremiah 13:25 ISBE
- Jeremiah 30:11 ISBE
- Jeremiah 46:28 ISBE
- Ezekiel 4:11 ISBE
- Ezekiel 4:16 ISBE
- Ezekiel 45:11 ISBE
- Micah 6:10 ISBE
- Luke 16:6 ISBE
- Revelation 6:6 ISBE
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 34 references
mezh'-ur, Several different words in the Hebrew and Greek are rendered by "measure" in English Versions of the Bible. In Job 11:9 and Jer 13:25 it stands for madh, middah, and it is the usual rendering of the verb madhadh, "to measure," i.e. "stretch out," "extend," "spread." It is often used to render the words representing particular measures, such as ['ephah] (De 25:14,15; Pr 20:10; Mic 6:10); or kor (1Ki 4:22; 5:11 (1Ki 5:2, 5:25 Hebrew text); 2Ch 2:10 (Hebrew text 2:9) 27:5; Ezr 7:22); or seah (Ge 18:6; 1Sa 25:18; 1Ki 18:32; 2Ki 7:1,16,18); or batos, "bath" (Lu 16:6). For these terms see WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. It also renders middah, "measure of length" (Ex 26:2); mesurah, a liquid measure (Le 19:35; 1Ch 23:29; Eze 4:11,16); mishpaT, "judgment" (Jer 30:11; 46:28); ca'ce'ah, a word of uncertain meaning, perhaps derived from seah (Isa 27:8); shalish, "threefold, large measure" (Ps 80:5 (Hebrew text Ps 80:6); Isa 40:12); tokhen, and mathkoneth, "weight" and that which is weighed, taken as measure (Eze 45:11). In Isa 5:14 it stands for choq, "limit." In the New Testament, besides being the usual rendering of the verb metreo, and of the noun metron, it is used for choinix, a dry measure containing about a quart (Re 6:6).
H. Porter
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.