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Easton's Bible Dictionary

Measure:

Several words are so rendered in the Authorized Version. (1.) Those which are indefinite. (a) Hok, Isa 5:14, elsewhere "statute." (b) Mad, Job 11:9; Jer 13:25, elsewhere "garment." (c) Middah, the word most frequently thus translated, Exd 26:2, 8, etc. (d) Mesurah, Lev 19:35; 1Ch 23:29. (e) Mishpat, Jer. 30:11, elsewhere "judgment." (f) Mithkoneth and token, Ezek. 45:11. (g) In New Testament metron, the usual Greek word thus rendered (Mat 7:2; 23:32; Mar 4:24).

(2.) Those which are definite. (a) 'Eyphah, Deu 25:14, 15, usually "ephah." (b) Ammah, Jer 51:13, usually "cubit." (c) Kor, 1Ki 4:22, elsewhere "cor;" Greek koros, Luk 16:7. (d) Seah, Gen 18:6; 1Sa 25:18, a seah; Greek saton, Mat 13:33; Luk 13:21. (e) Shalish, "a great measure," Isa 40:12; literally a third, i.e., of an ephah. (f) In New Testament batos, Luk 16:6, the Hebrew "bath;" and choinix, Rev 6:6, the choenix, equal in dry commodities to one-eighth of a modius.

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