'Measure' in the Bible

Now Abraham was old and far on in years: and the Lord had given him everything in full measure.

May God give you the dew of heaven, and the good things of the earth, and grain and wine in full measure:

And Moses said, The Lord will give you meat for your food at evening, and in the morning bread in full measure; for your outcry against the Lord has come to his ears: for what are we? your outcry is not against us but against the Lord.

The outcry of the children of Israel has come to my ears: say to them now, At nightfall you will have meat for your food, and in the morning bread in full measure; and you will see that I am the Lord your God.

All your animals will give birth without loss, not one will be without young in all your land; I will give you a full measure of life.

Every curtain is to be twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide, all of the same measure.

Every curtain is to be thirty cubits long and four cubits wide, all of the same measure.

Every curtain was twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide, all of the same measure.

Every curtain was thirty cubits long and four cubits wide, all of the same measure.

And every meal offering, mixed with oil or dry, is for all the sons of Aaron in equal measure.

And the land will give her fruit, and you will have food in full measure and be safe in the land.

And the crushing of the grain will overtake the cutting of the grapes, and the cutting of the grapes will overtake the planting of the seed, and there will be bread in full measure, and you will be living in your land safely.

And if a man gives to the Lord part of the field which is his property, then let your value be in relation to the seed which is planted in it; a measure of barley grain will be valued at fifty shekels of silver.

May the sin of this people have forgiveness, in the measure of your great mercy, as you have had mercy on them from Egypt up till now.

Then let him who is making his offering, give to the Lord a meal offering of a tenth part of a measure of the best meal mixed with a fourth part of a hin of oil:

Or for a male sheep, give as a meal offering two tenth parts of a measure of the best meal mixed with a third part of a hin of oil:

Then with the ox give a meal offering of three tenth parts of a measure of the best meal mixed with half a hin of oil.

Who is able to take the measure of the dust of Jacob or the number of the thousands of Israel? May my death be the death of the upright and my last end like his!

The measure of this space of land is to be two thousand cubits outside the town on the east, and two thousand cubits on the south and on the west and on the north, the town being in the middle. This space will be the outskirts of their towns.

And these towns are to be given out of the heritage of the children of Israel, taking the greater number from those who have much, and a smaller number from those who have little: everyone, in the measure of his heritage, is to give of his property to the Levites.

Where there will be bread for you in full measure and you will be in need of nothing; a land where the very stones are iron and from whose hills you may get copper.

And I will give grass in your fields for your cattle, so that you may have food in full measure.

But give him freely from your flock and from your grain and your wine: in the measure of the wealth which the Lord your God has given you, you are to give to him.

Every man is to give as he is able, in the measure of the blessing which the Lord your God has given you.

But have a true weight and a true measure: so that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

And he gave to every man and woman among all the people, among all the masses of Israel, a cake of bread and a measure of wine and a cake of dry grapes. Then all the people went away, every man to his house.

Overhead were highly priced stones cut to measure, and cedar-wood.

And when they had come to the other side, Elijah said to Elisha, Say what you would have me do for you before I am taken from you. And Elisha said, Be pleased to let a special measure of your spirit be on me.

And they became very short of food in Samaria; for they kept it shut in till the price of an ass's head was eighty shekels of silver, and a small measure of doves' droppings was five shekels of silver.

Then Elisha said, Give ear to the word of the Lord: the Lord says, Tomorrow, about this time, a measure of good meal will be offered for the price of a shekel and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the market-place of Samaria.

Then the people went out and took the goods from the tents of the Aramaeans. So a measure of good meal was to be had for the price of a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, as the Lord had said.

So the words of the man of God came true, which he said to the king: Two measures of barley will be offered for the price of a shekel and a measure of good meal for a shekel, tomorrow about this time in the market-place of Samaria.

And Solomon put the base of the house of God in position; by the older measure it was sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide.

Up to a hundred talents of silver, a hundred measures of grain, a hundred measures of wine, and a hundred measures of oil, and salt without measure.

And now for a little time grace has come to us from the Lord our God, to let a small band of us get free and to give us a nail in his holy place, so that our God may give light to our eyes and a measure of new life in our prison chains.

And after everything which has come on us because of our evil-doing and our great sin, and seeing that the punishment which you, O God, have given us, is less than the measure of our sins, and that you have kept from death those of us who are here;

Are you able to take God's measure, to make discovery of the limits of the Ruler of all?

Longer in measure than the earth, and wider than the sea.

If the men of my tent did not say, Who has not had full measure of his meat?

He kept my soul from the underworld, and my life sees the light in full measure.

For by these he gives food to the peoples, and bread in full measure.

For God has taken wisdom from her mind, and given her no measure of knowledge.

But as for me, I will come into your house, in the full measure of your mercy; and in your fear I will give worship, turning my eyes to your holy Temple.

But the gentle will have the earth for their heritage; they will take their delight in peace without measure.

Lord, give me knowledge of my end, and of the measure of my days, so that I may see how feeble I am.

You have made my days no longer than a hand's measure; and my years are nothing in your eyes; truly, every man is but a breath. (Selah.)

Man took part in the food of strong ones; he sent them meat in full measure.

You have given them the bread of weeping for food; for their drink you have given them sorrow in great measure.

Give him praise for his acts of power: give him praise in the measure of his great strength.

A man will be praised in the measure of his wisdom, but a wrong-minded man will be looked down on.

From the fruit of his mouth will a man have good food in full measure, and the work of a man's hands will be rewarded.

The upright man has food to the full measure of his desire, but there will be no food for the stomach of evil-doers.

He whose heart is turned away will have the reward of his ways in full measure; but a good man will have the reward of his doings.

With the fruit of a man's mouth his stomach will be full; the produce of his lips will be his in full measure.

By ploughing his land a man will have bread in full measure; but he who goes after good-for-nothing persons will be poor enough.

The heart of her husband has faith in her, and he will have profit in full measure.

Their respect for a man's position is a witness against them; and their sin is open to the view of all; like that of Sodom, it is not covered. A curse on their soul! for the measure of their sin is full.

For ten fields of vines will only give one measure of wine, and a great amount of seed will only give a small measure of grain.

In the hollow of whose hand have the waters been measured? and who is able to take the heavens in his stretched-out fingers? who has got together the dust of the earth in a measure? who has taken the weight of the mountains, or put the hills into the scales?

But these two things will come on you suddenly in one day, the loss of children and of husband: in full measure they will come on you, for all your secret arts, and all your wonders.

Awake! awake! up! O Jerusalem, you who have taken from the Lord's hand the cup of his wrath; tasting in full measure the wine which overcomes.

Why do you give your money for what is not bread, and the fruit of your work for what will not give you pleasure? Give ear to me, so that your food may be good, and you may have the best in full measure.

Come, they say, I will get wine, and we will take strong drink in full measure; and tomorrow will be like today, full of pleasure.

And the Lord will be your guide at all times; in dry places he will give you water in full measure, and will make strong your bones; and you will be like a watered garden, and like an ever-flowing spring.

For their sins and the sins of their fathers, who were burning perfumes on the mountains, and saying evil things against me on the hills: so I will take the measure of their sins, and will send the punishment for them into their breast.

No longer will there be there a child whose days are cut short, or an old man whose days have not come to their full measure: for the young man at his death will be a hundred years old, and he whose life is shorter than a hundred years will seem as one cursed.

They will no longer be building for the use of others, or planting for others to have the fruit: for the days of my people will be like the days of a tree, and my loved ones will have joy in full measure in the work of their hands.

So that you may take of the comfort flowing from her breasts, and be delighted with the full measure of her glory.

How is it possible for you to have my forgiveness for this? your children have given me up, taking their oaths by those who are no gods: when I had given them food in full measure, they were false to their wives, taking their pleasure in the houses of loose women.

I will give the priests their desired fat things, and my people will have a full measure of my good things, says the Lord.

For I have given new strength to the tired soul and to every sorrowing soul in full measure.

See, I will make it healthy and well again, I will even make them well; I will let them see peace and good faith in full measure.

But that day is the day of the Lord, the Lord of armies, a day of punishment when he will take payment from his haters: and the sword will have all its desire, drinking their blood in full measure: for there is an offering to the Lord, the Lord of armies, in the north country by the river Euphrates.

And I will make Israel come back to his resting-place, and he will get his food on Carmel and Bashan, and have his desire in full measure on the hills of Ephraim and in Gilead.

He has made my life nothing but pain, he has given me the bitter root in full measure.

For though he sends grief, still he will have pity in the full measure of his love.

And you are to take water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: you are to take it at regular times.

So I will let loose my passion on the wall in full measure, and on those who put whitewash on it; and I will say to you, Where is the wall, and where are those who put whitewash on it?

And you went with the Assyrians, because of your desire which was without measure; you were acting like a loose woman with them, and still you had not enough.

Truly, this was the sin of your sister Sodom: pride, a full measure of food, and the comforts of wealth in peace, were seen in her and her daughters, and she gave no help to the poor or to those in need.

As for your unclean purpose: because I have been attempting to make you clean, but you have not been made clean from it, you will not be made clean till I have let loose my passion on you in full measure.

I the Lord have said the word and I will do it; I will not go back or have mercy, and my purpose will not be changed; in the measure of your ways and of your evil doings you will be judged, says the Lord.

At my table you will have food in full measure, horses and war-carriages, great men and all the men of war, says the Lord.

In the measure of their unclean ways and their sins, so I did to them; and I kept my face covered from them.

And there was a wall on the outside of the house all round, and in the man's hand there was a measuring rod six cubits long by a cubit and a hand's measure: so he took the measure of the building from side to side, one rod; and from base to top, one rod.

Then he came to the doorway looking to the east, and went up by its steps; and he took the measure of the doorstep, one rod wide.

And he took the measure of the covered way of the doorway inside,

And he took the measure of the opening of the doorway, ten cubits wide; and the way down the doorway was thirteen cubits;

And he took the measure of the doorway from the back of one room to the back of the other, twenty-five cubits across, from door to door.

And he took the measure of the covered way, twenty cubits; and opening from the covered way of the doorway was the open square round about.

Then he took the measure of the square across, from before the lower doorway inside to before the inner doorway outside, one hundred cubits. And he took me in the direction of the north,

And there was a doorway to the outer square, looking to the north; and he took the measure of it to see how wide and how long it was.

And there was a doorway to the inner square opposite the doorway on the north, like the doorway on the east; and he took the measure from doorway to doorway, a hundred cubits.

And he took me to the south, and I saw a doorway looking to the south: and he took the measure of its rooms and its uprights and its covered ways by these measures.

And there was a doorway to the inner square looking to the south: he took the measure from doorway to doorway to the south, a hundred cubits.

Then he took me to the inner square by the south doorway: and he took the measure of the south doorway by these measures;

And he took me into the inner square facing the east: and he took the measure of the doorway by these measures;

And he took me to the north doorway: and he took the measure of it by these measures;

And he took the measure of the open square, a hundred cubits long and a hundred cubits wide, being square; and the altar was in front of the house.

Then he took me to the covered way before the house, and took the measure of its uprights, five cubits on one side and five cubits on the other: and the doorway was fourteen cubits wide; and the side-walls of the doorway were three cubits on one side and three cubits on the other.