Thematic Bible: Measures
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Measures » Just weights
But a
And a bag of deceptive weights?
You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin; I am the Lord your God, who brought you out from the land of Egypt.
All the
“You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a large and a small.
Both of them are abominable to the Lord.
“You shall have just balances, a just ephah and a just bath.
Measures » Distances measured by rods and lines
The city is laid out as a square, and its length is as great as the width; and he measured the city with the rod, fifteen hundred miles; its length and width and height are equal.
So He brought me there; and behold, there was a man whose appearance was like the appearance of 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 his means are insufficient for two turtledoves or two young pigeons, then for his offering for that which he has sinned, he shall bring the tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering; he shall not put oil on it or place incense on it, for it is a sin offering.
“Now on the eighth day he is to take two male lambs without defect, and a yearling ewe lamb without defect, and three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering, and one log of oil;
Measures » The jews not to be unjust in
‘You shall do no wrong in judgment, in measurement of weight, or capacity.
"You shall not have in your house differing measures, a large and a small. "You shall have a full and just weight; you shall have a full 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 is to take two male lambs without defect, and a yearling ewe lamb without defect, and three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering, and one log of oil;
Measures » Of length » Span
It shall be square and folded double, a span in length and a span in width.
Then a champion came out from the armies of the Philistines named Goliath, from Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.
Measures » Of liquids and solids » Bath or ephah
And a
The ephah and the bath shall be the same quantity, so that the bath will contain a tenth of a homer and the ephah a tenth of a homer; their standard shall be according to the homer.
Measures » Of liquids and solids » Homer or cor
And a
and the prescribed portion of oil (namely, the bath of oil), a tenth of a bath from each kor (which is ten baths or a homer, for ten baths are a homer);
Measures » Illustrative » (drinking water, by measure) of severe famine
Moreover, He said to me, “Son of man, behold, I am going to break the staff of bread in Jerusalem, and they will eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and drink water by measure and in horror,
The water you drink shall be the sixth part of a hin by measure; you shall drink it from time to time.
Measures » Of length » Handbreadth
You shall make for it a rim of a handbreadth around it; and you shall make a gold border for the rim around it.
And my
Surely every man
Measures » Of length » Furlong
And behold, two of them were going that very day to a village named Emmaus, which was about seven miles from Jerusalem.
Measures » Illustrative » (weighing the waters in a measure,) of God's infinite wisdom
And
Measures » Were regulated by the standard of the sanctuary
Measures » Of length » Cubit
"This is how you shall make it: the length of the ark three hundred cubits, its breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits. "You shall make a window for the ark, and finish it to a cubit from the top; and set the door of the ark in the side of it; you shall make it with lower, second, and third decks.
Measures » Illustrative » (the measure of the stature of Christ,) of perfection
until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ.
Measures » Illustrative » (correcting in measure,) of mitigated afflictions
For I will
Only I will
But I will
And will by no means leave you unpunished.’
Measures » Unjust, an abomination to God
Both of them are abominable to the Lord.
Measures » Of liquids and solids » Cab
There was a great famine in Samaria; and behold, 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 there shall be one-tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with one-fourth of a hin of beaten oil, and one-fourth of a hin of wine for a drink offering with one lamb.
Measures » Illustrative » (measuring the dust of the earth,) of God's greatness
And marked off the heavens by the
And
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
And
Measures » Illustrative » (drinking tears in great measure,) of severe afflictions
And You have made them to drink tears in
Measures » Illustrative » (the measure of our days,) of the shortness of life
And what is the extent of my days;
Let me know how
Measures » Of length » Fathom
They took soundings and found it to be twenty fathoms; and a little farther on they took another sounding and found it to be fifteen fathoms.
Measures » The jews often used unjust
Along with treasures of
And a
Measures » Of liquids and solids » Firkin
Now there were six stone waterpots set there for the Jewish custom of purification, containing twenty or thirty gallons each.
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