Reference: Measure
American
See SHEKELS, TALENT, BATH, EPHAH, etc.
Easton
Several words are so rendered in the Authorized Version. (1.) Those which are indefinite. (a) Hok, Isa 5:14, elsewhere "statute." (b) Mad, Job 11:9; Jer 13:25, elsewhere "garment." (c) Middah, the word most frequently thus translated, Ex 26:2,8, etc. (d) Mesurah, Le 19:35; 1Ch 23:29. (e) Mishpat, Jer 30:11, elsewhere "judgment." (f) Mithkoneth and token, Eze 45:11. (g) In New Testament metron, the usual Greek word thus rendered (Mt 7:2; 23:32; Mr 4:24).
(2.) Those which are definite. (a) 'Eyphah, De 25:14-15, usually "ephah." (b) Ammah, Jer 51:13, usually "cubit." (c) Kor, 1Ki 4:22, elsewhere "cor;" Greek koros, Lu 16:7. (d) Seah, Ge 18:6; 1Sa 25:18, a seah; Greek saton, Mt 13:33; Lu 13:21. (e) Shalish, "a great measure," Isa 40:12; literally a third, i.e., of an ephah. (f) In New Testament batos, Lu 16:6, the Hebrew "bath;" and choinix, Re 6:6, the choenix, equal in dry commodities to one-eighth of a modius.
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And Abraham hastened into the tent to Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal; knead it, and make cakes.
The length of one curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits. And every one of the curtains shall have one measure.
The length of one curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits, one measure to the eleven curtains.
You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures and weights, or in quantity.
You shall not have in your house two kinds of measures, a great ephah and a small. You shall have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure you shall have, so that your days may be lengthened in the land which Jehovah your God gives you.
And Solomon's food for one day was thirty measures of fine flour and sixty measures of meal,
The measure of it is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
So hell has enlarged itself, and opened its mouth without measure; and their glory, and their multitude, and their pride, and he who rejoices in her, shall go down into it.
Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and measured out the heavens with a span? And who has shut up the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
This is your lot, the share I have measured to you, says Jehovah, because you have forgotten Me and trusted in falsehood.
For I am with you, says Jehovah, to save you. Though I make a full end of all nations where I have scattered you, yet I will not make a full end of you; but I will correct you in measure, and will not leave you entirely unpunished.
O you who live on many waters, rich in treasures, your end has come, and the measure of your unjust gain.
The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of a homer, and the ephah the tenth part of a homer. Its measure shall be according to the homer.
For with whatever judgment you judge, you shall be judged; and with whatever measure you measure out, it shall be measured to you again.
He spoke another parable to them: The kingdom of Heaven is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal until the whole was leavened.
And He said to them, Take heed what you hear. With that measure which you measure, it shall be measured to you. And to you who hear, more shall be given.
It is like leaven which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, until the whole was leavened.
And he said, A hundred baths of oil. And he said to him, Take your bill and sit down quickly and write fifty. And he said to another, And how much do you owe? And he said, A hundred cors of wheat. And he said to him, Take your bill and write eighty.
And I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures say, A choenix of wheat for a denarius, and three choenixes of barley for a denarius. And do not hurt the oil and the wine.
Watsons
MEASURE, that by which any thing is measured, or adjusted, or proportioned, Pr 20:10; Mic 6:10. Tables of Scripture measures of length and capacity are found at the end of this volume.
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Different kinds of weights, different kinds of measures, both are hateful to Jehovah.
Are the treasures of wickedness still in the house of the wicked, and the short measure that is hateful?