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:
Zechariah 2:2: "thou? And he said unto me, To measure Jerusalem, to see what"
