mezhur, Several different words in the Hebrew and Greek are rendered by measure in English Versions of the Bible. In Job 11:9 and Jer 13:25 it stands for , madh, , middah, and it is the usual rendering of the verb , madhadh, to measure, i.e. stretch out, extend, spread. It is often used to render the words representing particular measures, such as [‘ephah (Deu 25:14, Deu 25:15; Pro 20:10; Mic 6:10); or kor (1Ki 4:22; 1Ki 5:11 (1Ki 5:2 and 1Ki 5:5 :25 Hebrew text); 2Ch 2:10 (Hebrew text 2:9) 2Ch 27:5; Ezr 7:22); or seah (Gen 18:6; 1Sa 25:18; 1Ki 18:32; 2Ki 7:1, 2Ki 7:16, 2Ki 7:18); or , batos, bath (Luk 16:6). For these terms see WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. It also renders , middah, measure of length (Exo 26:2); , mesurah, a liquid measure (Lev 19:35; 1Ch 23:29; Eze 4:11, Eze 4:16); , mishpat, judgment (Jer 30:11; Jer 46:28); , sa’se’ah, a word of uncertain meaning, perhaps derived from seah (Isa 27:8); , shalsh, threefold, large measure (Psa 80:5 (Hebrew text 80:6); Isa 40:12); , tokhen, and , mathkoneth, weight and that which is weighed, taken as measure (Eze 45:11). In Isa 5:14 it stands for , hok, limit. In the New Testament, besides being the usual rendering of the verb , metreo, and of the noun , metron, it is used for , chonix, a dry measure containing about a quart (Rev 6:6).<\/p>\n
Measure, Measures mezhur, Several different words in the Hebrew and Greek are rendered by measure in English Versions of the Bible. In Job 11:9 and Jer 13:25 it stands for , madh, , middah, and it is the usual rendering of the verb , madhadh, to measure, i.e. stretch out, extend, spread. It is often … Continue reading “Measure, Measures”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}