12 occurrences

'Measures' in the Bible

So Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and said, “Quickly, prepare three measures of fine flour, knead it and make bread cakes.”

Verse ConceptsFoodBakersBakingWeights And Measures, DryHasty ActionKneading DoughThree Other ThingsHurrying Others OnOther Volume Measures

You shall not have in your house differing measures, a large and a small.

Again he said, “Give me the cloak that is on you and hold it.” So she held it, and he measured six measures of barley and laid it on her. Then she went into the city.

Verse ConceptsSix ThingsOther Volume Measures

She said, “These six measures of barley he gave to me, for he said, ‘Do not go to your mother-in-law empty-handed.’”

Verse ConceptsSix ThingsEmpty HandedOther Volume Measures

Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread and two jugs of wine and five sheep already prepared and five measures of roasted grain and a hundred clusters of raisins and two hundred cakes of figs, and loaded them on donkeys.

Verse ConceptsFoodFig treeGrainRaisinsSheepWeights And Measures, DryFigsOne HundredThe Number Two HundredDried FruitQuantities Of WineHasty ActionOther Volume Measures

So with the stones he built an altar in the name of the Lord, and he made a trench around the altar, large enough to hold two measures of seed.

Verse ConceptsFurrowsWeights And Measures, DryOther Volume Measures

Then Elisha said, “Listen to the word of the Lord; thus says the Lord, ‘Tomorrow about this time a measure of fine flour will be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.’”

Verse ConceptsFoodCoinageElisha, Prophecies OfGatesGrainProphecy, Methods Of OtTradeWeights And Measures, DryMan's Action TomorrowInexpensiveOther Volume Measurestomorrowmarketing

So the people went out and plundered the camp of the Arameans. Then a measure of fine flour was sold for a shekel and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to the word of the Lord.

Verse ConceptsMoney, Uses OfSpoils Of WarInexpensiveOther Volume Measures

It happened just as the man of God had spoken to the king, saying, “Two measures of barley for a shekel and a measure of fine flour for a shekel, will be sold tomorrow about this time at the gate of Samaria.”

Verse ConceptsMan's Action TomorrowInexpensiveOther Volume Measurestomorrow

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.

Verse ConceptsFoodConsecrated BreadShowbread

from that time when one came to a grain heap of twenty measures, there would be only ten; and when one came to the wine vat to draw fifty measures, there would be only twenty.

Verse ConceptsShortage Of WineOther Volume Measures

Bible Theasaurus

Amount (108 instances)
Appraise (4 instances)
Assess (2 instances)
Evaluate (19 instances)
Measure (301 instances)
Measures (70 instances)
Measuring (56 instances)
Quantity (29 instances)
Standard (91 instances)

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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
ὑπερβολή 
Huperbole 
Usage: 8

ἄμετρος 
ametros 
Usage: 2

ἀντιμετρέω 
Antimetreo 
Usage: 0

βάτος 
Batos 
Usage: 0

κόρος 
Koros 
Usage: 0

μετρέω 
metreo 
Usage: 6

μέτρον 
metron 
Usage: 8

περισσῶς 
Perissos 
Usage: 3

σάτον 
Saton 
Usage: 0

ὑπεραίρομαι 
Huperairomai 
Usage: 3

ὑπερβαλλόντως 
Huperballontos 
Usage: 1

ὑπερπερισσῶς 
Huperperissos 
Usage: 1

χοῖνιξ 
Choinix 
Usage: 2

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