Lexical Summary middah: measure, measurement, stature, size, a garment Original Word: מִדָּהTransliteration: middah Phonetic Spelling: (mid-daw') Part of Speech: Noun Feminine Short Definition: measure, measurement, stature, size, a garment Meaning: extension, height, breadth, a measure, a portion, a vestment, tribute Strong's Concordance garment, measuring, piece, size, great stature, tribute, wideFeminine of mad; properly, extension, i.e. Height or breadth; also a measure (including its standard); hence a portion (as measured) or a vestment; specifically, tribute (as measured) -- garment, measure(-ing, meteyard, piece, size, (great) stature, tribute, wide. see HEBREW mad Brown-Driver-Briggs H4060. middah I. מִדָּה noun feminine measure, measurement, stature, size, garment (mostly late) — ׳מ Exodus 26:2 35t.; construct מִדַּת Ezekiel 40:21 2t.; plural מִדּוֺת 41:17 12t.; מִדּוֺתָיו Psalm 133:2; מִדּוֺתֶיהָ Ezekiel 48:16; — 1 measure, act of measurement, i.e. long measure Ezekiel 41:17 (strike out Co), 42:15; 48:30, 33; compare Joshua 3:4 (P), 1 Chronicles 23:29, see also Leviticus 19:35 (H); once of liquid measure, figurative, Job 28:25; הַמּ ׳קַו֯ה Jeremiah 31:39 measuring-line; מ ׳חֶבֶל Zechariah 2:5 (id.); הַמּ ׳קְנֵה measuring-reed Ezekiel 40:3, 5; 42:16 (strike out Co), 42:16; 42:17; 42:18; 42:19. 2 measurement, size of curtains in tabernacle Exodus 26:2, 8; 36:9, 15 (all P); compare 1 Kings 6:25; 7:37 (both "" קֶצֶב), 7:9; 7:11; 2 Chronicles 3:3; Ezekiel 40:10 (twice in verse); 40:21-22, 24, 28, 29, 32, 33, 35; 43:13; 46:22; 48:16; once of time, יָמַי מִדַּת Psalm 39:5; probably also Job 11:9 (figurative of God's wisdom) where מִדָּהּ = מִדָּתָהּ, compare Sta§ 347, approximately 2; מִדּוֺת בֵּית = house of size Jeremiah 22:14; מִדָּה אִישׁ = man of size, stature, 1 Chronicles 11:23; 20:6; so also probably "" 2 Samuel 21:20 (for HCT מדין, Qr מָדוֺן, see [ מַד]), We Dr Kit Bu; plural Numbers 13:32; Isaiah 45:14. 3 measured portion, extent, stretch (of wall) Nehemiah 3:11, 19, 20, 21, 24, 27, 30, compare Ezekiel 45:3. 4 garment (plural poetic) Psalm 133:2. II. [מִדָּה] noun feminine tribute (loan-word from Assyrian mandattu, id., √ nadânu = נָתַן DlHWB 451, compare SchrCOT Ezra 4:13; also in Biblical Aramaic ךמדֶּה מִנְדָּה, id.); — הַמֶּלֶךְ מִדַּת Nehemiah 5:4. מדה (secondary form of מדד; √ of following) |
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