Thematic Bible: Measures


Thematic Bible





You must have honest balances, honest weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin; I [am] Yahweh your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt. Verse ConceptsBalances, For BusinessTrustworthinessBusiness EthicsJust WeightsWeighingThe Lord Is GodGod Bringing Israel Out Of EgyptRight Measuresbalanceweight


"There shall not be {for your use} in your bag {two kinds of stone weights, a large one and a small one}. Verse ConceptsBagsDeception, Forbidden By GodWork, And The FallBusiness EthicsDishonesty CondemnedJust Weightsbalanceweight


[There] shall be for you {an honest set of scales} and {an honest ephah} and {an honest bath}. Verse ConceptsBalances, For BusinessHonestyBalances, Dishonest UseMerchandiseJust WeightsRight Measuresbalance

When he defeated Moab, he measured them with the cord, making them lie on the ground. He measured two cords to kill and {the third cord} to let live. So Moab became servants of David, bringing tribute. Verse ConceptsGiving To OthersLengthTaxationTributesDividing Into Three GroupsThose Subjected To People

And the city is laid out as a square, and its length is the same as [its] width. And he measured the city with the measuring rod at twelve thousand stadia; the length and the width and the height of it are equal. Verse ConceptsBreadthHeightLengthSquaresCubesEleven To Nineteen ThousandCity SquaresMeasuring Jerusalem And The LandNew JerusalemNervousnessoutreachmeasurement

And he brought me there, and look, there was a man whose appearance [was] like [the] appearance of bronze, and a cord of linen [was] in his hand and a reed for measurement; [he] was standing in the gate. Verse ConceptsBronzeMeasuring RodLinenWeights And Measures, LinearStanding In The GatewayThings Like Bronze

And {the measuring line} will still go out immediately in front [of] it to the hill of Gareb, and it will turn [to] Goah. Verse ConceptsMeasuring Rod

" 'But if {he cannot afford} two turtledoves or two {young doves}, then, because he has sinned, he shall bring [as] his offering a tenth of an ephah [of] finely milled flour as a sin offering. He must not put oil on it, nor should he put frankincense on it, because it [is] a sin offering. Verse ConceptsFooddovesFrankincenseIncenseOilPigeonsWeights And Measures, DryOil On SacrificesFragranceA Tenth Of ThingsBeing PoorEphah [Ten Omers]Regulations For The Sin Offering

"And on the eighth day he must take two male lambs without defect and one ewe-lamb {in its first year} without defect and three-tenths [of an ephah] of finely milled flour mixed with oil [as] a grain offering and one log of oil. Verse ConceptsWeights And Measures, LiquidDay 8Oil On SacrificesMale AnimalsFemale AnimalsPerfect SacrificesAnimals At Specific AgesEphah [Ten Omers]Making Cereal Offerings And LibationsOther Volume Measures

(And an omer [is] a tenth of an ephah.) Verse ConceptsA Tenth Of ThingsComparative Measuresmeasurement


There shall not be in your house {for your use} {two kinds of measures}. [Rather] a full and honest weight shall be {for your use}; there shall be for you a full and honest {measure}, so that your days on the land that Yahweh your God [is] giving to you may be long.

"And on the eighth day he must take two male lambs without defect and one ewe-lamb {in its first year} without defect and three-tenths [of an ephah] of finely milled flour mixed with oil [as] a grain offering and one log of oil. Verse ConceptsWeights And Measures, LiquidDay 8Oil On SacrificesMale AnimalsFemale AnimalsPerfect SacrificesAnimals At Specific AgesEphah [Ten Omers]Making Cereal Offerings And LibationsOther Volume Measures

And the priest shall take {some of} the log of oil, and he shall pour [it] on his left palm; Verse ConceptsLeft HandsOil On Sacrifices


Then {a champion} went out from the camps of [the] Philistines, whose name was Goliath from Gath. His height was six cubits and a span. Verse ConceptsWeights And Measures, LinearGiantsChampions


The ephah and the bath shall be one unit of measurement; the tenth part of the homer [is] the bath, and the tenth of the homer [is] the ephah; [so] the homer shall be its unit of measurement. Verse ConceptsWeights And Measures, DryWeights And Measures, LiquidComparative MeasuresRight Measuresmeasurement


And the quota of the olive oil, the bath [of] the olive oil, [is] the tenth part of a bath from a kor, [which] [is] ten baths, [or] a homer--for ten baths [are equal to] a homer. Verse ConceptsWeights And Measures, DryWeights And Measures, LiquidComparative Measures

And he said to me, "Son of man, look, I [am] going to break the {supply} of bread in Jerusalem, and they will eat bread by weight, {anxiously}, and {rationed water}, and they will drink with horror, Verse ConceptsBreaking SticksDrinking WaterFamine ComingFear Will ComePeople AppalledFamine Will ComeAnxiety And FearDespairweight

And {an amount of water} you shall drink, a sixth of a hin; {at fixed times} you shall drink [it]. Verse ConceptsWeights And Measures, LiquidDrinking WaterNo Water For Peoplemeasurement

And you will make for it a handbreadth rim all around, and you will make a gold molding for its rim all around. Verse ConceptsWeights And Measures, LinearBreadthGold Items For The TabernaclEdge Of Other Things

Look, you have made my days [mere] handbreadths, and my lifespan as nothing next to you. Surely every person standing firm [is] complete vanity. Selah Verse ConceptsPhysical LifeWeights And Measures, LinearVanityMan A Mere BreathPsalm InterjectionsPerspective

(Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia. Verse ConceptsWeights And Measures, Lineardistance

And behold, on [that] same day, two of them were traveling to a village {named} Emmaus [that was] sixty stadia distant from Jerusalem, Verse ConceptsWeights And Measures, LinearTwo Disciples

"God understands its way, and he knows its place, Verse ConceptsWisdom

{When he gave} weight to the wind and he apportioned [the] waters by measure, Verse ConceptsWindGod Dispensing WindAtmospherebalanceweightpressuremeasurement

and with the rows of bread, the flour, the grain offering, the wafers of unleavened bread, the baked offering, the offering mixed with oil, and for all the amounts and measurements. Verse ConceptsFoodConsecrated BreadShowbread

And this [is] how you must make it: the length of the ark, three hundred cubits; its width fifty cubits; its height, thirty cubits. You must make a roof for the ark, and {finish it to a cubit above}. And [as for] the door of the ark, you must put [it] in its side. You must make it [with] a lower, second, and a third [deck].


For I am with you,' {declares} Yahweh, 'to save you. For I will make a complete destruction of all the nations to which I scattered you, but you I will not make a complete destruction. And I will chastise you to the measure, and I will not leave you entirely unpunished.' Verse ConceptsGod Scattering IsraelGod With Specific PeopleReproving PeopleAmerica


There was a great famine in Samaria, and behold, a siege [was] against it, until the head of a donkey [went] for eighty shekels of silver, and one fourth of the measure of the dung of doves [went] for five shekels of silver. Verse ConceptsFamine, Examples OfCoinagedung and manureHeadsMonotonySuffering, Nature OfWeights And Measures, DryDefecationHelp In ShortageA Fourth PartExpensiveOther Volume Measuresboyfriendspoop

And a tenth of finely milled flour mixed with a fourth of a hin of beaten oil, and a fourth of a hin of wine as a libation with the first lamb. Verse ConceptsOilOlivesWinedrink offeringAnimal Sacrifices, Meal OfferingQuantities Of WineA Fourth PartA Tenth Of ThingsEphah [Ten Omers]

Who has measured [the] waters in the hollow of his hand and marked off [the] heavens with span, comprehended the dust of the earth in third of a measure and weighed out [the] mountains in the scales, and [the] hills in a balance? Verse ConceptsBalance In LifeBreadthDivine BalancesHand Of GodHillsNatureBalances, Metaphorical UseStrength, DivineWeighingNumerous As DustHollowScienceThe OceanbalancedustweightmeasurementThe Vastness Of Nature


Therefore Sheol has enlarged its throat, and it has opened wide its mouth without limit, and her nobles will go down, and her multitude, her tumult and those who revel in her. Verse ConceptsGrave, TheThe Glory Of ManThe Fact Of Death

You have fed them [the] bread of tears; you have given them tears to drink in full measure. Verse ConceptsCup Of SufferingTearsSevere Afflictions

"Let me know, O Yahweh, my end, and what is the measure of my days. Let me know how transient I [am]." Verse ConceptsEuthanasiaLife, HumanDeath, Preparation ForLife, Brevity OfAfflictions, Prayer DuringTransient WealthPeople EndedDeathDaysEnd Of Days

And taking soundings, they found twenty fathoms. So going on a little [further] and taking soundings again, they found fifteen fathoms. Verse ConceptsdepthDepthingNavigation

Is there any longer a man [in] the house of the wicked treasures of wickedness, and the ephah of scarcity [which is] accursed? Verse ConceptsAbominations, To GodStoring Treasure On EarthCursing ThingsProsperity Of The Wicked

Now six stone water jars were set there, in accordance with the ceremonial cleansing of the Jews, each holding two or three measures. Verse ConceptsJews, TheJudaismRitual WashingWashingWaterWeights And Measures, LiquidSix ThingsWater ContainersStone ItemsMeans Of PurifyingPurifying OneselfOther Volume Measures