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Lexicon :: Strong's H4058 - māḏaḏ

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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

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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 having measured the homer full, [fn] he that had gathered much had nothing over, and he that had gathered less had no lack; each gathered [fn]according to the need of those who belonged to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:5 - And thou shalt measure outside the city on the east side two thousand cubits, and on the south side two thousand cubits, and on the west side two thousand cubits, and on the north side two thousand cubits; and your city shall be in the midst of this, and the suburbs of the cities as described.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:2 - thine elders and thy judges shall come forth, and shall measure the distances of the cities round about the slain man:

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:15

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:15 - And he said to her, Bring the apron that is upon thee: and she held it, and he measured six measures of barley, and put them upon her, and she went into the city.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 8:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 8:2 - And David smote Moab, and measured them out with lines, having [fn]laid them down on the ground: and there were two lines for slaying, and two lines he kept alive: and Moab became servants to David, yielding tribute.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:21 - And he breathed on the child thrice, and called on the Lord, and said, O Lord my God, let, I pray thee, the soul of this child return to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 60:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 60:6 - (LXX 59:8) God has spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, and divide Sicima, and measure out the valley of tents.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 108:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 108:7 - (LXX 107:8) I will be exalted, and will divide Sicima, and will measure out the valley of tents.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:12 - Who has measured the water in his hand, and the heaven with a span, and all the earth in a handful? Who has weighed the mountains in scales, and the forests in a balance?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:7 - their sins and the sins of their fathers, saith the Lord, who have burnt incense on the mountains, and reproached me on the hills: I will recompense their works into their bosom.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:37 - (LXX 38:35) Though the sky should be raised to a greater height, saith the Lord, and though the ground of the earth should be sunk lower beneath, yet I will not cast off the family of Israel, saith the Lord, for all that they have done.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:5 - And behold a wall round about the house without, and in the man's hand a reed, the measure of it was six cubits by the cubit, and a span: and he measured across the front wall; the breadth was equal to the reed, and the length of it equal to the reed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:6 - And he entered by seven steps into the gate that looks eastward, and he measured across the porch of the gate equal to the reed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:8 - And the third chamber equal in length to the reed, and equal in breadth to the reed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:9 - And the porch of the gateway (near the porch of the gate) eight cubits; and the posts thereof two cubits; and the porch of the gate was inward:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:11 - And he measured the breadth of the door of the gateway, ten cubits; and the breadth of the gateway thirteen cubits.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:13 - And he measured the gate from the wall of one chamber to the wall of the other chamber: the breadth was twenty-five cubits, the one gate over against the other gate.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:19 - And he measured the breadth of the court, from the open space of the outer gate inwards to the open space of the gate looking outwards: a hundred cubits was the distance to the place of the gate looking eastward: and he brought me to the north;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:20 - and behold a gate looking northwards belonging to the outer court, and he measured it, both the length of it and the breadth;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:23 - And there was a gate to the inner court looking toward the north gate, after the manner of the gate looking toward the east; and he measured the court from gate to gate, a hundred cubits.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:24 - And he brought me to the south side, and behold a gate looking southwards: and he measured it, and its chambers, and its posts, and its porches, according to these dimensions.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:27

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:27 - And there was a gate opposite the gate of the inner court southward: and he measured the court from gate to gate, a hundred cubits in breadth southward.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:28

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:28 - And he brought me into the inner court of the south gate: and he measured the gate according to these measures;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:32

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:32 - And he brought me in at the gate that looks eastward: and he measured it according to these measures:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:35

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:35 - And he brought me in at the northern gate, and measured it according to these measures;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:47

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:47 - And he measured the court, the length whereof was a hundred cubits, and the breadth a hundred cubits, on its four sides; and the altar in front of the house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:48

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:48 - And he brought me into the porch of the house; and he measured the post of the porch, the breadth was five cubits on one side and five cubits on the other side; and the breadth of the door was fourteen cubits, and the side-pieces of the door of the porch were three cubits on one side, and three cubits on the other side.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:1 - And he brought me into the temple, the porch of which he measured, six cubits the breadth on one side, and six cubits the breadth of the porch on the other side.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:2 - And the breadth of the gateway was ten cubits, and the side-pieces of the gateway were five cubits on this side, and five cubits on that side: and he measured the length of it, forty cubits, and the breadth, twenty cubits.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:3 - And he went into the inner court, and measured the post of the door, two cubits; and the door, six cubits; and the side-pieces of the door, seven cubits on one side, and seven cubits on the other side.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:4 - And he measured the length of the doors, forty cubits; and the breadth, twenty cubits, in front of the temple: and he said, This is the holy of holies.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:5 - And he measured the wall of the house, six cubits: and the breadth of each side, four cubits round about.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:13 - And he measured in front of the house a length of a hundred cubits, and the remaining spaces and the partitions; and the walls thereof were in length a hundred cubits.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:15 - And he measured the length of the partition in front of the space left by the back parts of that house; and the spaces left on this side and on that side were in length a hundred cubits: and the temple and the corners and the outer porch were ceiled.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:15 - So the measurement of the house within was accomplished: and he brought me forth by the way of the gate that looks eastward, and measured the plan of the house round about in order.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:16 - And he stood behind the gate looking eastward, and measured five hundred cubits with the measuring reed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:17 - And he turned to the north and measured in front of the north side five hundred cubits with the measuring reed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:18 - (LXX 42:19) And he turned to the south, and measured in front of the south side, five hundred cubits by the measuring reed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:19 - (LXX 42:18) And he turned to the west, and measured in front of the west side, five hundred cubits with the measuring reed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:20 - The four sides he measured by the same reed, and he marked out the house and the circumference of the parts round about, a space of five hundred cubits eastward, and a breadth of five hundred cubits, to make a division between the sanctuary and the outer wall, that belonged to the design of the house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:10 - And thou, son of man, shew the house to the house of Israel, that they may cease from their sins; and shew its aspect and the arrangement of it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:3 - And out of this measurement shalt thou measure the length five and twenty thousand, and the breadth twenty thousand: and in it shall be the holy of holies.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:3 - in the direction in which a man went forth opposite; and there was a measuring line in his hand, and he measured a thousand cubits with the measure;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:4 - and he passed through the water; it was water of a fountain: and again he measured a thousand, and passed through the water; and the water was up to the thighs: and again he measured a thousand; and he passed through water up to the loins.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:5 - And again he measured a thousand; and he could not pass through: for the water rose as of a torrent which men cannot pass over.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:18 - And the eastern coasts between Loranitis, and Damascus, and the land of Galaad, and the land of Israel, the Jordan divides to the sea that is east of the city of palm-trees. These are the eastern coasts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:10

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:10 - (LXX 2:1) Yet the number of the children of Israel was as the sand of the sea, which shall not be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said to them, Ye are not my people, even they shall be called the sons of the living God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 2:2

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 2:2 - (LXX 2:6) And I said to him, Whither goest thou? And he said to me, To measure Jerusalem, to see what is the breadth of it, and what is the length of it.
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