Lexicon :: Strong's H4058 - māḏaḏ

When they measured it by quarts,[fn] the person who gathered a lot had no surplus, and the person who gathered a little had no shortage. Each gathered as much as he needed to eat.

“Measure a thousand yards[fn] outside the city for the east side, a thousand yards for the south side, a thousand yards for the west side, and a thousand yards for the north side, with the city in the center. This will belong to them as pasturelands for the cities.

“your elders and judges are to come out and measure the distance from the victim to the nearby cities.

And he told Ruth, “Bring the shawl you’re wearing and hold it out.” When she held it out, he shoveled six measures of barley into her shawl, and she[fn] went into the town.

He also defeated the Moabites, and after making them lie down on the ground, he measured them off with a cord. He measured every two cord lengths of those to be put to death and one full length of those to be kept alive. So the Moabites became David’s subjects and brought tribute.

Then he stretched himself out over the boy three times. He cried out to the LORD and said, “LORD my God, please let this boy’s life come into him again! ”

God has spoken in his sanctuary:[fn]

“I will celebrate!

I will divide up Shechem.

I will apportion the Valley of Succoth.

God has spoken in his sanctuary:[fn]

“I will celebrate!

I will divide up Shechem.

I will apportion the Valley of Succoth.

Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand

or marked off the heavens with the span of his hand?

Who has gathered the dust of the earth in a measure

or weighed the mountains on a balance

and the hills on the scales?

“for your iniquities and the iniquities

of your[fn] ancestors together,”

says the LORD.

“Because they burned incense on the mountains

and reproached me on the hills,

I will reward them fully[fn]

for their former deeds.”

“This is what the LORD says:

Only if the heavens above can be measured

and the foundations of the earth below explored,

will I reject all of Israel’s descendants

because of all they have done —

this is the LORD’s declaration.

“Even as the stars of heaven cannot be counted, and the sand of the sea cannot be measured, so too I will make innumerable the descendants of my servant David and the Levites who minister to me.”

Now there was a wall surrounding the outside of the temple. The measuring rod in the man’s hand was six units of twenty-one inches;[fn] each unit was the standard length plus three inches.[fn] He measured the thickness of the wall structure; it was 10 ¹/₂ feet,[fn] and its height was the same.

Next he measured the gate’s portico;

Then he measured the width of the gate’s entrance; it was 17 ¹/₂ feet,[fn] while the width[fn] of the gate was 22 ³/₄ feet.[fn]

Then he measured the gate from the roof of one recess to the roof of the opposite one; the distance was 43 ³/₄ feet.[fn] The openings of the recesses faced each other.

Then he measured the distance from the front of the lower gate to the exterior front of the inner court; it was 175 feet.[fn] This was the east; next the north is described.

The inner court had a gate facing the north gate, like the one on the east. He measured the distance from gate to gate; it was 175 feet.

The inner court had a gate on the south. He measured from gate to gate on the south; it was 175 feet.

Then he brought me to the inner court on the east side. When he measured the gate, it had the same measurements as the others.

Then he brought me to the north gate. When he measured it, it had the same measurements as the others,

Next he measured the court. It was square, 175 feet long and 175 feet wide. The altar was in front of the temple.

Next he brought me into the great hall and measured the jambs; on each side the width of the jamb was 10 ¹/₂ feet.[fn][fn]

Then the man measured the temple; it was 175 feet[fn] long. In addition, the temple yard and the building, including its walls, were 175 feet long.

Next he measured the length of the building facing the temple yard to the west, with its galleries[fn] on each side; it was 175 feet.

The interior of the great hall and the porticoes of the court ​— ​

When he finished measuring inside the temple complex, he led me out by way of the gate that faced east and measured all around the complex.

“As for you, son of man, describe the temple to the house of Israel, so that they may be ashamed of their iniquities. Let them measure its pattern,

“From this holy portion,[fn] you will measure off an area 8 ¹/₃ miles long and 3 ¹/₃ miles[fn] wide, in which the sanctuary, the most holy place, will stand.[fn]

As the man went out east with a measuring line in his hand, he measured off a third of a mile[fn] and led me through the water. It came up to my ankles.

“On the east side it will run between Hauran and Damascus, along the Jordan between Gilead and the land of Israel; you will measure from the northern border to the eastern sea.[fn] This will be the eastern side.

Yet the number of the Israelites

will be like the sand of the sea,

which cannot be measured or counted.

And in the place where they were told:

You are not my people,

they will be called: Sons of the living God.

I asked, “Where are you going? ”

He answered me, “To measure Jerusalem to determine its width and length.”