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Lexicon :: Strong's H4058 - māḏaḏ

Aa
מָדַד
Transliteration
māḏaḏ
Pronunciation
maw-dad'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 1146

Strong’s Definitions

מָדַד mâdad, maw-dad'; a primitive root; properly, to stretch; by implication, to measure (as if by stretching a line); figuratively, to be extended:—measure, mete, stretch self.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 51x

The KJV translates Strong's H4058 in the following manner: measure (47x), mete out (2x), mete (1x), stretched (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 51x
The KJV translates Strong's H4058 in the following manner: measure (47x), mete out (2x), mete (1x), stretched (1x).

  1. to measure, stretch

    1. (Qal) to measure

    2. (Niphal) to be measured

    3. (Piel)

      1. to extend, continue

      2. to measure, measure off

    4. (Po) measured

    5. (Hithpolel) to extend oneself, stretch oneself

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מָדַד mâdad, maw-dad'; a primitive root; properly, to stretch; by implication, to measure (as if by stretching a line); figuratively, to be extended:—measure, mete, stretch self.
STRONGS H4058: Abbreviations
מָדַד 53 verb measure (Late Hebrew id.; Phoenician מדד; Arabic bdb055101 extend, stretch, bdb055102 a corn-measure, etc.; Assyrian madâdu, measure; Jewish-Aramaic noun מִידָּה measure, proportion, rule); —
Qal Perfect מ׳ (מָדָ֑ד) Isaiah 40:12 + 9 times Ezekiel; suffix מְדָדוֺ Ezekiel 42:15, Ezekiel 42:20; 1st person singular וּמַדֹּתִ֫י Isaiah 65:7; וּמָֽדְדוּ consecutive Deuteronomy 21:2; Ezekiel 43:10; וּמַדֹּתֶם consecutive Numbers 35:5; Imperfect וַיָּ֫מָד Ruth 3:15 + 22 times Ezekiel; 2nd person masculine singular תָּמוֺד Ezekiel 45:3; וַיָּמֹ֫דּוּ Exodus 16:18; תָּמֹ֫דּוּ Ezekiel 47:18; Infinitive לָמֹד Zechariah 2:6 [Zechariah 2:2]; — measure, chiefly literal (usually followed by accusative of thing; object omitted Exodus 16:18; Deuteronomy 21:2; Ezekiel 40:35, compare Ezekiel 47:18 (but see Co); followed by accusative of measure Ruth 3:15; Ezekiel 42:19; Ezekiel 47:3, Ezeliel 47:4 (twice in verse); Ezekiel 47:5); —
1. measure of length, distance Numbers 35:5 (P), Deuteronomy 21:2 (D), Ezekiel 40:5, Ezekiel 40:6, Ezekiel 40:8, Ezekiel 40:20 + 32 times Ezekiel 40-47 Zechariah 2:6 [Zechariah 2:2].
2. of dry measure Exodus 16:18 (P), Ruth 3:15.
3. figurative of measuring waters Isaiah 40:12 (of י׳); of requital Isaiah 65:7.
† Niph. Imperfect יִמַּד Hosea 2:1 [Hosea 1:10]; Jeremiah 33:22; יִמַּדּוּ Jeremiah 31:37; — be measured, of sand of sea Hosea 2:1 [Hosea 1:10]; Jeremiah 33:22; of heavens Jeremiah 31:37.
† Pi. Perfect וּמִדַּדֿ consecutive [H4059 Job 7:4] (compare Ges§ 52. 2. R. 1); Imperfect וַיְמַדֵּד 2 Samuel 8:2; וַיְמַדְּדֵם 2 Samuel 8:2; אֲמַדֵּד Psalm 60:8 [Psalm 60:6]; Psalm 108:8 [Psalm 108:7]; —
1. extend, continue (= make extent or continuation), subject עֶרֶב [H4059 Job 7:4].
2. measure, measure off, בַחֶבֶל, of apportioning Moabites to death and life, followed by suffix 2 Samuel 8:2; also object חֲבָלִים 2 Samuel 8:2; metaphor of conquest, followed by accusative, Psalm 60:8 [Psalm 60:6] = Psalm 108:8 [Psalm 108:7] (|| חִלֵּק).
Po. Imperfect וַיְמֹ֫דֶד H4128 Habakkuk 3:6 (subject God, object אֶרֶץ), measured (namely, with eye) Vulgate Hi AV RV, but dubious; Greek Version of the LXX ἐσαλεύθη, Targum אֲזִיעַ, hence shook Ew Ke Or and others (from √ [מוֺד =] מוֺט, but read then rather וַיְמֹטֵט, although מוט not elsewhere in this conjugation; We, plausibly, וַיְמֹגֵג √ מוג, compare Nahum 1:5).
†Hithpo. וַיִּתְמֹדֵד followed by עַלהַֿיֶ֫לֶד; 1 Kings 17:21 measured (= extended, stretched) himself upon the boy.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Exodus

16:18; 16:18; 16:18

Numbers

35:5; 35:5

Deuteronomy

21:2; 21:2; 21:2

Ruth

3:15; 3:15; 3:15

2 Samuel

8:2; 8:2; 8:2; 8:2

1 Kings

17:21

Psalms

60:6; 60:6; 108:7; 108:7

Isaiah

40:12; 40:12; 65:7; 65:7

Jeremiah

31:37; 31:37; 33:22; 33:22

Ezekiel

40:5; 40:6; 40:8; 40:20; 40:35; 42:15; 42:19; 42:20; 43:10; 45:3; 47:3; 47:4; 47:5; 47:18; 47:18

Hosea

1:10; 1:10

Nahum

1:5

Habakkuk

3:6

Zechariah

2:2; 2:2

H4058

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H4058 matches the Hebrew מָדַד (māḏaḏ),
which occurs 51 times in 49 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:18 - And when they measured it by the omer, the one who gathered much did not have too much, and the one who gathered little did not have too little. Everyone had gathered just as much as they needed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:5 - Outside the town, measure two thousand cubits[fn] on the east side, two thousand on the south side, two thousand on the west and two thousand on the north, with the town in the center. They will have this area as pastureland for the towns.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:2 - your elders and judges shall go out and measure the distance from the body to the neighboring towns.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:15

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:15 - He also said, “Bring me the shawl you are wearing and hold it out.” When she did so, he poured into it six measures of barley and placed the bundle on her. Then he[fn] went back to town.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 8:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 8:2 - David also defeated the Moabites. He made them lie down on the ground and measured them off with a length of cord. Every two lengths of them were put to death, and the third length was allowed to live. So the Moabites became subject to David and brought him tribute.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:21 - Then he stretched himself out on the boy three times and cried out to the LORD, “LORD my God, let this boy’s life return to him!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 60:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 60:6 - God has spoken from his sanctuary: “In triumph I will parcel out Shechem and measure off the Valley of Sukkoth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 108:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 108:7 - God has spoken from his sanctuary: “In triumph I will parcel out Shechem and measure off the Valley of Sukkoth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:12 - Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or with the breadth of his hand marked off the heavens? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on the scales and the hills in a balance?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:7 - both your sins and the sins of your ancestors,” says the LORD. “Because they burned sacrifices on the mountains and defied me on the hills, I will measure into their laps the full payment for their former deeds.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:37

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:37 - This is what the LORD says: “Only if the heavens above can be measured and the foundations of the earth below be searched out will I reject all the descendants of Israel because of all they have done,”

declares the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:22 - I will make the descendants of David my servant and the Levites who minister before me as countless as the stars in the sky and as measureless as the sand on the seashore.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:5 - I saw a wall completely surrounding the temple area. The length of the measuring rod in the man’s hand was six long cubits,[fn] each of which was a cubit and a handbreadth. He measured the wall; it was one measuring rod thick and one rod high.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:6 - Then he went to the east gate. He climbed its steps and measured the threshold of the gate; it was one rod deep.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:8 - Then he measured the portico of the gateway;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:9 - it[fn] was eight cubits[fn] deep and its jambs were two cubits[fn] thick. The portico of the gateway faced the temple.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:11 - Then he measured the width of the entrance of the gateway; it was ten cubits and its length was thirteen cubits.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:13 - Then he measured the gateway from the top of the rear wall of one alcove to the top of the opposite one; the distance was twenty-five cubits[fn] from one parapet opening to the opposite one.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:19 - Then he measured the distance from the inside of the lower gateway to the outside of the inner court; it was a hundred cubits[fn] on the east side as well as on the north.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:20 - Then he measured the length and width of the north gate, leading into the outer court.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:23 - There was a gate to the inner court facing the north gate, just as there was on the east. He measured from one gate to the opposite one; it was a hundred cubits.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:24 - Then he led me to the south side and I saw the south gate. He measured its jambs and its portico, and they had the same measurements as the others.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:27

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:27 - The inner court also had a gate facing south, and he measured from this gate to the outer gate on the south side; it was a hundred cubits.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:28

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:28 - Then he brought me into the inner court through the south gate, and he measured the south gate; it had the same measurements as the others.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:32

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:32 - Then he brought me to the inner court on the east side, and he measured the gateway; it had the same measurements as the others.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:35

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:35 - Then he brought me to the north gate and measured it. It had the same measurements as the others,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:47

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:47 - Then he measured the court: It was square—a hundred cubits long and a hundred cubits wide. And the altar was in front of the temple.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:48

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:48 - He brought me to the portico of the temple and measured the jambs of the portico; they were five cubits wide on either side. The width of the entrance was fourteen cubits[fn] and its projecting walls were[fn] three cubits[fn] wide on either side.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:1 - Then the man brought me to the main hall and measured the jambs; the width of the jambs was six cubits[fn] on each side.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:2 - The entrance was ten cubits[fn] wide, and the projecting walls on each side of it were five cubits[fn] wide. He also measured the main hall; it was forty cubits long and twenty cubits wide.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:3 - Then he went into the inner sanctuary and measured the jambs of the entrance; each was two cubits[fn] wide. The entrance was six cubits wide, and the projecting walls on each side of it were seven cubits[fn] wide.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:4 - And he measured the length of the inner sanctuary; it was twenty cubits, and its width was twenty cubits across the end of the main hall. He said to me, “This is the Most Holy Place.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:5 - Then he measured the wall of the temple; it was six cubits thick, and each side room around the temple was four cubits[fn] wide.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:13 - Then he measured the temple; it was a hundred cubits[fn] long, and the temple courtyard and the building with its walls were also a hundred cubits long.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:15 - Then he measured the length of the building facing the courtyard at the rear of the temple, including its galleries on each side; it was a hundred cubits. The main hall, the inner sanctuary and the portico facing the court,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:15 - When he had finished measuring what was inside the temple area, he led me out by the east gate and measured the area all around:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:16 - He measured the east side with the measuring rod; it was five hundred cubits.[fn][fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:17 - He measured the north side; it was five hundred cubits[fn] by the measuring rod.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:18 - He measured the south side; it was five hundred cubits by the measuring rod.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:19 - Then he turned to the west side and measured; it was five hundred cubits by the measuring rod.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:20 - So he measured the area on all four sides. It had a wall around it, five hundred cubits long and five hundred cubits wide, to separate the holy from the common.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:10 - “Son of man, describe the temple to the people of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their sins. Let them consider its perfection,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:3 - In the sacred district, measure off a section 25,000 cubits long and 10,000 cubits[fn] wide. In it will be the sanctuary, the Most Holy Place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:3 - As the man went eastward with a measuring line in his hand, he measured off a thousand cubits[fn] and then led me through water that was ankle-deep.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:4 - He measured off another thousand cubits and led me through water that was knee-deep. He measured off another thousand and led me through water that was up to the waist.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:5 - He measured off another thousand, but now it was a river that I could not cross, because the water had risen and was deep enough to swim in—a river that no one could cross.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:18 - “On the east side the boundary will run between Hauran and Damascus, along the Jordan between Gilead and the land of Israel, to the Dead Sea and as far as Tamar.[fn] This will be the eastern boundary.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:10

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:10 - “Yet the Israelites will be like the sand on the seashore, which cannot be measured or counted. In the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be called ‘children of the living God.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 2:2

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 2:2 - I asked, “Where are you going?” He answered me, “To measure Jerusalem, to find out how wide and how long it is.”
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