Strong's Hebrew · H4060
H4060 middâh
מִדָּה
mid-daw'
measure
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middâh appears 55 times in Scripture, including Exodus 26:2 and Leviticus 19:35. 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, extension, i.e. height or breadth; also a measure (including its standard); hence a portion (as measured) or a vestment; specifically, tribute (as measured)
In the King James Version
garment, measure(-ing, meteyard, piece, size, (great) stature, tribute, wide.
Derivation
feminine of H4055 (מַד);
Appears 55 times in Scripture
“You must not use dishonest measures of length, weight, or volume.”
“Each of the eleven curtains was the same size—thirty cubits long and four cubits wide.”
“On the south side, which will be 4,500 cubits long, there will be three gates: the gate of Simeon, the gate of Issachar, and the gate of Zebulun.”
“And he came around and measured the west side to be five hundred cubits long.”
“And there was also a battle at Gath, where there was a man of great stature with six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot—twenty-four in all. He too was descended from Rapha,”
“But keep a distance of about two thousand cubits between yourselves and the ark. Do not go near it, so that you can see the way to go, since you have never traveled this way before.””
“Each curtain was twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide; all the curtains were the same size.”
“Each of the eleven curtains is to be the same size—thirty cubits long and four cubits wide.”
“So they gave the Israelites a bad report about the land that they had spied out: “The land we explored devours its inhabitants, and all the people we saw there are great in stature.”
“Each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide—all curtains the same size.”
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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).
