Strong's Hebrew · H4058

H4058 mâdad

מָדַד

maw-dad'

to measure

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mâdad appears 51 times in Scripture, including Exodus 16:18 and Numbers 35:5. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.

Definition

properly, to stretch; by implication, to measure (as if by stretching a line); figuratively, to be extended

In the King James Version

measure, mete, stretch self.

Derivation

a primitive root;

Appears 51 times in Scripture

Ezekiel 42:20

“So he measured the area on all four sides. It had a wall all around, five hundred cubits long and five hundred cubits wide, to separate the holy from the common.”

Numbers 35:5

“You are also to measure two thousand cubits outside the city on the east, two thousand on the south, two thousand on the west, and two thousand on the north, with the city in the center. These areas will serve as larger pasturelands for the cities.”

Ezekiel 40:13

“Then he measured the gateway from the roof of one gate chamber to the roof of the opposite one; the distance was twenty-five cubits from doorway to doorway.”

2 Samuel 8:2

“David also defeated the Moabites, made them lie down on the ground, and measured them off with a cord. He measured off with two lengths those to be put to death, and with one length those to be spared. So the Moabites became subject to David and brought him tribute.”

Ruth 3:15

“And he told her, “Bring the shawl you are wearing and hold it out.” When she did so, he poured in six measures of barley and placed it on her. Then he went into the city.”

Deuteronomy 21:2

“your elders and judges must come out and measure the distance from the victim to the neighboring cities.”

Ezekiel 41:13

“Then he measured the temple to be a hundred cubits long, and the temple courtyard and the building with its walls were also a hundred cubits long.”

Exodus 16:18

“When they measured it by the omer, he who gathered much had no excess, and he who gathered little had no shortfall. Each one gathered as much as he needed to eat.”

Jeremiah 31:37

“This is what the LORD says: “Only if the heavens above could be measured and the foundations of the earth below searched out would I reject all of Israel’s descendants because of all they have done,” declares the LORD.”

Ezekiel 41:5

“Next he measured the wall of the temple to be six cubits thick, and the width of each side room around the temple was four cubits.”

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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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