מִדָּהmiddâh
מִדָּה: measure, measurement, stature, size, garment
Pronunciation: mid-daw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4060
Meanings
1. measure, act of measurement (Ezekiel 41:17; Ezekiel 42:15; Ezekiel 48:30)
2. measurement, size (Exodus 26:2; Exodus 26:8; Exodus 36:9)
3. measured portion, extent (Nehemiah 3:11; Nehemiah 3:19; Nehemiah 3:20)
4. garment (Psalms 133:2)
מִדָּה: tribute (Ezra 4:13; Nehemiah 5:4)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 55 times in the Bible.
- Exodus 26:2 These ten curtains must all be exactly the same size—42 feet long and 6 feet wide.
- Exodus 26:8 These eleven curtains must all be exactly the same size—45 feet long and 6 feet wide.
- Exodus 36:9 All ten curtains were exactly the same size—42 feet long and 6 feet wide.
- Exodus 36:15 These eleven curtains were all exactly the same size—45 feet long and 6 feet wide.
- Leviticus 19:35 “Do not use dishonest standards when measuring length, weight, or volume.
- Numbers 13:32 So they spread this bad report about the land among the Israelites: “The land we traveled through and explored will devour anyone who goes to live there. All the people we saw were huge.
See every passage
- Exodus 26:2, 26:8, 36:9, 36:15
- Leviticus 19:35
- Numbers 13:32
- Joshua 3:4
- 1 Kings 6:25, 7:9, 7:11, 7:37
- 1 Chronicles 11:23, 20:6, 23:29
- 2 Chronicles 3:3
- Nehemiah 3:11, 3:19, 3:20, 3:21, 3:24, 3:27, 3:30, 5:4
- Job 28:25
- Psalms 39:4, 133:2
- Isaiah 45:14
- Jeremiah 22:14, 31:39
- Ezekiel 40:3, 40:5, 40:10, 40:21, 40:22, 40:24, 40:28, 40:29, 40:32, 40:33, 40:35, 41:17, 42:15, 42:16, 42:17, 42:18, 42:19, 43:13, 45:3, 46:22, 48:16, 48:30, 48:33
- Zechariah 2:1
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).