Thematic Bible: Measures
Thematic Bible
Measures » Just weights
But an accurate scale is His delight.
“Can I [be guiltless and] justify deceptive scales
And a bag of dishonest weights?
You shall have just and accurate balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin. I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
A just balance and [honest] scales are the Lord’s;
All the weights of the bag are His concern [established by His eternal principles].
“You shall not have in your bag inaccurate weights, a heavy and a light [so you can cheat others].
Differing weights [one for buying and another for selling] and differing measures,
Both of them are detestable and offensive to the Lord.
“You shall have just balances and weights [on your scales and just measures], a just ephah [dry volume measure] and a just bath [liquid measure].
Measures » Distances measured by rods and lines
He defeated Moab, and measured them with a length of rope, making them lie down on the ground; he measured two lengths to [choose those to] put to death, and one full length to [choose those to] be kept alive. And the [surviving] Moabites became servants to David, bringing tribute.
The city is laid out as a square, its length being the same as its width; and he measured the city with his rod—twelve thousand stadia (about 1,400 miles); its length and width and height are equal.
So He brought me there; and behold, there was a man [an angel] whose appearance was like bronze, with a line of flax and a measuring rod in his hand; and he was standing in the gateway.
The measuring line will go out farther straight ahead to the hill Gareb; then it will turn to Goah.
Measures » Of liquids and solids » Omer or tenth-deal (the tenth of an ephah)
‘But if he cannot afford to bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons, then he shall bring as his offering for his sin the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour as a sin offering; he shall not put [olive] oil or incense on it, for it is a sin offering.
“Now on the eighth day he shall take two male lambs without blemish, and a yearling ewe lamb without blemish, and three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with [olive] oil as a grain offering, and one log (about a pint) of oil;
Measures » The jews not to be unjust in
‘You shall do no wrong in judgment, in measurement of weight or quantity.
You shall not have in your house true and false measures, a large and a small. But you shall have a perfect and just weight and a perfect and just measure, that your days may be prolonged in the land which the Lord your God gives you.
Measures » Of liquids and solids » Log
“Now on the eighth day he shall take two male lambs without blemish, and a yearling ewe lamb without blemish, and three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with [olive] oil as a grain offering, and one log (about a pint) of oil;
The priest shall also take some of the log of oil, and pour it into the palm of his own left hand;
Measures » Of length » Span
The breastpiece shall be square and folded double; a span [about nine inches] in length and a span in width.
Then a champion came out from the camp of the Philistines named Goliath of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.
Measures » Of liquids and solids » Bath or ephah
“For ten
And a homer (
The ephah and the bath [measures] shall be the same quantity, the bath containing one tenth of a homer and the ephah one tenth of a homer; their standard [measure] shall be according to the homer.
Measures » Of liquids and solids » Homer or cor
“For ten
And a homer (
and the prescribed portion of oil, (namely, the bath of oil), a tenth part of a bath [of oil] from each kor (which is ten baths or a homer, for ten baths make a homer);
Measures » Illustrative » (drinking water, by measure) of severe famine
Moreover, He said to me, “Son of man, behold (listen carefully), I am going to break the staff of bread [that supports life] in Jerusalem; and they shall eat bread [rationed] by weight and [eat it] with anxiety and fear, and drink water by measure and [drink it] in horror [of the impending starvation],
You shall drink water by measure also, the sixth part of a hin; you shall drink daily at a set time.
Measures » Of length » Handbreadth
You shall make a rim of a hand width around it; you shall make a gold border for the rim around it.
“Behold, You have made my days as [short as] hand widths,
And my lifetime is as nothing in Your sight.
Surely every man at his best is a mere breath [a wisp of smoke, a vapor that vanishes]!
Measures » Of length » Furlong
And then, that very day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, which was about seven miles from Jerusalem.
Measures » Illustrative » (weighing the waters in a measure,) of God's infinite wisdom
“God understands the way [to wisdom]
And He knows its place [for wisdom is with God alone].
“When He gave weight and pressure to the wind
And allotted the waters by measure,
Measures » Were regulated by the standard of the sanctuary
and with the showbread, and the fine flour for a grain offering, and unleavened wafers, or what is baked in the pan or what is well-mixed, and all measures of volume and size [as the Law of Moses required].
Measures » Of length » Cubit
And this is the way you are to make it: the length of the ark shall be 300 cubits, its breadth 50 cubits, and its height 30 cubits [that is, 450 ft. x 75 ft. x 45 ft.]. You shall make a roof or window [a place for light] for the ark and finish it to a cubit [at least 18 inches] above -- "and the door of the ark you shall put in the side of it; and you shall make it with lower, second, and third stories.
Measures » Illustrative » (the measure of the stature of Christ,) of perfection
until we all reach oneness in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God, [growing spiritually] to become a mature believer, reaching to the measure of the fullness of Christ [manifesting His spiritual completeness and exercising our spiritual gifts in unity].
Measures » Illustrative » (correcting in measure,) of mitigated afflictions
‘For I am with you,’ says the Lord, ‘to save you;
For I will destroy completely all the nations where I have scattered you,
But I will not destroy you completely.
But I will judge and discipline you fairly
And will by no means regard you as guiltless and leave you unpunished.’
Measures » Unjust, an abomination to God
Differing weights [one for buying and another for selling] and differing measures,
Both of them are detestable and offensive to the Lord.
Measures » Of liquids and solids » Cab
Now there was a great famine in Samaria; and they besieged it until a donkey’s head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and a fourth of a kab of dove’s dung for five shekels of silver.
Measures » Of liquids and solids » Hin
and with the one lamb there shall be one-tenth of a measure of fine flour mixed with one-fourth of a hin of beaten [olive] oil, and one-fourth of a hin of wine for a drink offering [to be poured out].
Measures » Illustrative » (measuring the dust of the earth,) of God's greatness
Who has measured the waters in the hollow of His hand,
And marked off the heavens with a span [of the hand],
And calculated the dust of the earth with a
And weighed the mountains in a balance
And the hills in a pair of scales?
Measures » Of length » Mile
Measures » Illustrative » (opening the mouth without measure,) of the insatiableness of hell
Therefore Sheol (the realm of the dead) has increased its appetite and opened its mouth beyond measure;
And
Measures » Illustrative » (drinking tears in great measure,) of severe afflictions
You have fed them the bread of tears,
And You have made them drink [bitter] tears in abundance.
Measures » Illustrative » (the measure of our days,) of the shortness of life
“Lord, let me know my [life’s] end
And [to appreciate] the extent of my days;
Let me know how frail I am [how transient is my stay here].
Measures » Of length » Fathom
So they took soundings [using a weighted line] and found [the depth to be] twenty fathoms (120 feet); and a little farther on they sounded again and found [the depth to be] fifteen fathoms (90 feet).
Measures » The jews often used unjust
“Are there not still treasures gained by wickedness
In the house of the wicked,
And a short (inaccurate) measure [for grain] that is cursed?
Measures » Of liquids and solids » Firkin
Now there were six stone waterpots set there for the Jewish custom of purification (ceremonial washing), containing twenty or thirty gallons each.
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