Strong's #4058: madad (pronounced maw-dad')
a primitive root: properly, to stretch; by implication, to measure (as if by stretching a line); figuratively, to be extended:--measure, mete, stretch self.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
mâdad
1) to measure, stretch
1a) (Qal) to measure
1b) (Niphal) to be measured
1c) (Piel)
1c1) to extend, continue
1c2) to measure, measure off
1d) (Po) measured
1e) (Hithpolel) to extend oneself, stretch oneself
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 51 times:
Exodus 16:18: " And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack;"
Numbers 35:5: " And ye shall measure from without the city on the east side two thousand"
Deuteronomy 21:2: "Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about"
Ruth 3:15: "thou hast upon thee, and hold it. And when she held it, he measured six measures of barley, and laid it on"
2 Samuel 8:2: "And he smote Moab, and measured them with a line, casting them down to the ground;"
2 Samuel 8:2: "casting them down to the ground; even with two lines measured he to put to death, and with one full line"
1 Kings 17:21: " And he stretched himself upon the child three times, and cried unto the LORD,"
Psalms 60:6: "I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth."
Psalms 108:7: "I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth."
Isaiah 40:12: "Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended"
Isaiah 65:7: "and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom."
Jeremiah 31:37: "If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out"
Jeremiah 33:22: "neither the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed"
Ezekiel 40:5: "reed of six cubits long by the cubit and a handbreadth: so he measured the breadth"
Ezekiel 40:6: "the east, and went up the stairs thereof, and measured the threshold of the gate, which was one"
Ezekiel 40:8: " He measured also the porch of the gate within, one reed."
Ezekiel 40:9: " Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and the posts thereof, two"
Ezekiel 40:11: " And he measured the breadth of the entry of the gate, ten cubits; and the length"
Ezekiel 40:13: " He measured then the gate from the roof of one little chamber to the roof of another: the breadth"
Ezekiel 40:19: " Then he measured the breadth from the forefront of the lower gate unto the forefront of the inner"
Ezekiel 40:20: "looked toward the north, he measured the length thereof, and the breadth"
Ezekiel 40:23: "the gate toward the north, and toward the east; and he measured from gate to gate"
Ezekiel 40:24: "a gate toward the south: and he measured the posts thereof and the porches thereof according to these measures."
Ezekiel 40:27: "court toward the south: and he measured from gate to gate"
Ezekiel 40:28: "court by the south gate: and he measured the south gate according to these"
Ezekiel 40:32: "court toward the east: and he measured the gate according to these measures."
Ezekiel 40:35: "me to the north gate, and measured it according to these measures;"
Ezekiel 40:47: " So he measured the court, a hundred cubits long, and a hundred cubits"
Ezekiel 40:48: "me to the porch of the house, and measured each post of the porch, five cubits"
Ezekiel 41:1: "Afterward he brought me to the temple, and measured the posts, six cubits"
Ezekiel 41:2: "on the one side, and five cubits on the other side: and he measured the length thereof, forty"
Ezekiel 41:3: "Then went he inward, and measured the post of the door, two cubits; and the door,"
Ezekiel 41:4: " So he measured the length thereof, twenty cubits; and the breadth, twenty cubits,"
Ezekiel 41:5: " After he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of every side chamber, four"
Ezekiel 41:13: " So he measured the house, a hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building,"
Ezekiel 41:15: " And he measured the length of the building over against the separate place which was behind"
Ezekiel 42:15: "prospect is toward the east, and measured it round about."
Ezekiel 42:16: " He measured the east side with the measuring reed, five hundred reeds,"
Ezekiel 42:17: " He measured the north side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed"
Ezekiel 42:18: " He measured the south side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring"
Ezekiel 42:19: "to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring"
Ezekiel 42:20: " He measured it by the four sides: it had a wall round about, five hundred"
Ezekiel 43:10: "of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities: and let them measure the pattern."
Ezekiel 45:3: "And of this measure shalt thou measure the length of five and twenty thousand,"
Ezekiel 47:3: "in his hand went forth eastward, he measured a thousand cubits, and he brought me through the waters;"
Ezekiel 47:4: " Again he measured a thousand, and brought me through the waters; the waters were to the knees. Again he measured a thousand,"
Ezekiel 47:4: "me through the waters; the waters were to the knees. Again he measured a thousand, and brought me through; the waters were to the loins."
Ezekiel 47:5: " Afterward he measured a thousand; and it was a river that I could not pass over: for"
Ezekiel 47:18: "And the east side ye shall measure from Hauran, and from"
Hosea 1:10: "of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place"
