Hebrew verb · H4058
מָדַד
madadmaw-dad'
to measure
51 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: mâdad
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4058is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 13 of 39Old Testament books
- 33spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4058
properly, to stretch; by implication, to measure (as if by stretching a line); figuratively, to be extended
The King James renders it: measure, mete, stretch self.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
madad is rendered "to measure". It stands 51 times in the Hebrew text, across thirteen books.
- Thirty-five of the uses stand in Ezekiel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 16:18When they measured it by the omer, he who gathered much had no excess, and he who gathered little had no shortfall. Each one gathered as much as he needed to eat.
- The Greek text spells it thirty-three different ways.
The first use
When they measured it by the omer, he who gathered much had no excess, and he who gathered little had no shortfall. Each one gathered as much as he needed to eat.
Exodus 16:18וַיָּמֹ֣דּוּ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and he measured22
- and he measured out5
- he measured5
- and they will measure2
- I will measure off2
- it will be measured2
- and he measured it1
- and he measured off1
- and he measured off them1
- and he stretched himself1
- and I will measure1
- and it will continue1
and 7 more, 51 uses in all
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 51, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
33 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- וַיָּ֣מָד7
- וַיָּ֤מָד3
- וַיָּ֜מָד3
- וַיָּ֨מָד3
- אֲמַדֵּֽד׃2
- וַיָּ֙מָד֙2
- וַיָּ֥מָד2
- וּמָדַ֣ד2
- יִמַּ֖ד2
- מָדַ֛ד2
- וַיָּ֛מָד1
- וַיָּ֧מָד1
and 21 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- Hc/Vqw3ms23Hc/Vqw3ms
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular6HVqp3ms
- Hc/Vqq3ms4Hc/Vqq3ms
- Hc/Vqq3cp2Hc/Vqq3cp
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular2HVNi3ms
- verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular2HVpi1cs
- Hc/Vpq3ms1Hc/Vpq3ms
- Hc/Vpw3ms1Hc/Vpw3ms
- Hc/Vpw3ms/Sp3mp1Hc/Vpw3ms/Sp3mp
- Hc/Vqq1cs1Hc/Vqq1cs
- Hc/Vqq2mp1Hc/Vqq2mp
- Hc/Vqq3ms/Sp3ms1Hc/Vqq3ms/Sp3ms
Exodus
one use
When they measured it by the omer, he who gathered much had no excess, and he who gathered little had no shortfall. Each one gathered as much as he needed to eat.
- וַיָּמֹ֣דּוּvaiyamoduHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they measured
Numbers
one use
You are also to measure two thousand cubits outside the city on the east, two thousand on the south, two thousand on the west, and two thousand on the north, with the city in the center. These areas will serve as larger pasturelands for the cities.
- וּמַדֹּתֶ֞םumadotemHc/Vqq2mptagged: and you will measure
Deuteronomy
one use
your elders and judges must come out and measure the distance from the victim to the neighboring cities.
- וּמָדְדוּ֙umadeduHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they will measure
Ruth
one use
And he told her, “Bring the shawl you are wearing and hold it out.” When she did so, he shoveled six measures of barley into her shawl. Then he went into the city.
- וַיָּ֤מָדvaiyamodHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he measured out
2 Samuel
two uses
David also defeated the Moabites, made them lie down on the ground, and measured them off with a cord. He measured off with two lengths those to be put to death, and with one length those to be spared. So the Moabites became subject to David and brought him tribute.
- וַֽיְמַדְּדֵ֤םvaymadedemHc/Vpw3ms/Sp3mptagged: and he measured off them
- וַיְמַדֵּ֤דvaymadedHc/Vpw3mstagged: and he measured off
1 Kings
one use
Then he stretched himself out over the child three times and cried out to the LORD, “O LORD my God, please let this boy’s life return to him!”
- וַיִּתְמֹדֵ֤דvaiyitmodedHc/Vtw3mstagged: and he stretched himself
Job
one use
When I lie down I think: ‘When will I get up?’ But the night drags on, and I toss and turn until dawn.
- וּמִדַּד־umidad-Hc/Vpq3mstagged: and it will continue
Psalms
two uses
God has spoken from His sanctuary: “I will triumph! I will parcel out Shechem and apportion the Valley of Succoth.
- אֲמַדֵּֽד׃ʾamadedverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will measure off
God has spoken from His sanctuary: “I will triumph! I will parcel out Shechem and apportion the Valley of Succoth.
- אֲמַדֵּֽד׃ʾamadedverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will measure off
Isaiah
two uses
Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or marked off the heavens with the span of his hand? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on a scale and the hills with a balance?
- מָדַ֨דmadadverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: has he measured
both for your iniquities and for those of your fathers,” says the LORD. “Because they burned incense on the mountains and scorned Me on the hills, I will measure into their laps full payment for their former deeds.”
- וּמַדֹּתִ֧יumadotiHc/Vqq1cstagged: and I will measure
Jeremiah
two uses
This is what the LORD says: “Only if the heavens above could be measured and the foundations of the earth below searched out would I reject all of Israel’s descendants because of all they have done,” declares the LORD.
- יִמַּ֤דּוּyimaduverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will be measured
As the hosts of heaven cannot be counted and as the sand on the seashore cannot be measured, so too will I multiply the descendants of My servant David and the Levites who minister before Me.”
- יִמַּ֖דyimadverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will be measured
Ezekiel
thirty-five uses
And I saw a wall surrounding the temple area. Now the length of the measuring rod in the man’s hand was six long cubits (each measuring a cubit and a handbreadth), and he measured the wall to be one rod thick and one rod high.
- וַיָּ֜מָדvaiyamodHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he measured
Then he came to the gate facing east and climbed its steps. He measured the threshold of the gate to be one rod deep.
- וַיָּ֣מָד׀vaiyamodHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he measured
Then he measured the portico of the gateway inside;
- וַיָּ֜מָדvaiyamodHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he measured
it was eight cubits deep, and its jambs were two cubits thick. And the portico of the gateway faced the temple.
- וַיָּ֜מָדvaiyamodHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he measured
And he measured the width of the gateway entrance to be ten cubits, and its length was thirteen cubits.
- וַיָּ֛מָדvaiyamodHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he measured
Then he measured the gateway from the roof of one gate chamber to the roof of the opposite one; the distance was twenty-five cubits from doorway to doorway.
- וַיָּ֣מָדvaiyamodHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he measured
Then he measured the distance from the front of the lower gateway to the outside of the inner court; it was a hundred cubits on the east side as well as on the north.
- וַיָּ֣מָדvaiyamodHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he measured
He also measured the length and width of the gateway of the outer court facing north.
- מָדַ֥דmadadverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he measured
There was a gate to the inner court facing the north gate, just as there was on the east. He measured the distance from gateway to gateway to be a hundred cubits.
- וַיָּ֧מָדvaiyamodHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he measured
Then he led me to the south side, and I saw a gateway facing south. He measured its side pillars and portico, and they had the same measurements as the others.
- וּמָדַ֤דumadadHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he measured
The inner court also had a gate facing south, and he measured the distance from gateway to gateway toward the south to be a hundred cubits.
- וַיָּ֨מָדvaiyamodHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he measured
Next 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.
- וַיָּ֙מָד֙vaiyamodHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he measured
And he brought me to the inner court on the east side, and he measured the gateway; it had the same measurements as the others.
- וַיָּ֣מָדvaiyamodHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he measured
Then he brought me to the north gate and measured it. It had the same measurements as the others,
- וּמָדַ֖דumadadHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he measured
Next 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.
- וַיָּ֨מָדvaiyamodHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he measured
Then he brought me to the portico of the temple and measured the side pillars of the portico to be five cubits on each side. The width of the gateway was fourteen cubits and its sidewalls were three cubits on either side.
- וַיָּ֙מָד֙vaiyamodHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he measured
Then the man brought me into the outer sanctuary and measured the side pillars to be six cubits wide on each side.
- וַיָּ֣מָדvaiyamodHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he measured
The width of the entrance was ten cubits, and the sides of the entrance were five cubits on each side. He also measured the length of the outer sanctuary to be forty cubits, and the width to be twenty cubits.
- וַיָּ֤מָדvaiyamodHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he measured
And he went into the inner sanctuary and measured the side pillars at the entrance to be two cubits wide. The entrance was six cubits wide, and the walls on each side were seven cubits wide.
- וַיָּ֥מָדvaiyamodHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he measured
Then he measured the room adjacent to the inner sanctuary to be twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide. And he said to me, “This is the Most Holy Place.”
- וַיָּ֨מָדvaiyamodHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he measured
Next he measured the wall of the temple to be six cubits thick, and the width of each side room around the temple was four cubits.
- וַיָּ֥מָדvaiyamodHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he measured
Then he measured the temple to be a hundred cubits long, and the temple courtyard and the building with its walls were also a hundred cubits long.
- וּמָדַ֣דumadadHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he measured
Next he measured the length of the building facing the temple courtyard at the rear of the temple, including its galleries on each side; it was a hundred cubits. The outer sanctuary, the inner sanctuary, and the porticoes facing the court,
- וּמָדַ֣דumadadHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he measured
Now when the man had finished measuring the interior of the temple area, he led me out by the gate that faced east, and he measured the area all around:
- וּמְדָד֖וֹumedadoHc/Vqq3ms/Sp3mstagged: and he measured it
With a measuring rod he measured the east side to be five hundred cubits long.
- מָדַ֛דmadadverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he measured
He measured the north side to be five hundred cubits long.
- מָדַ֖דmadadverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he measured
He measured the south side to be five hundred cubits long.
- מָדָ֑דmadadverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he measured
And he came around and measured the west side to be five hundred cubits long.
- מָדַ֛דmadadverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he measured
So he measured the area on all four sides. It had a wall all around, five hundred cubits long and five hundred cubits wide, to separate the holy from the common.
- מְדָד֗וֹmedadoverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he measured it
As for you, son of man, describe the temple to the people of Israel, so that they may be ashamed of their iniquities. Let them measure the plan,
- וּמָדְד֖וּumadeduHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they will measure
From this holy portion, you are to measure off a length of 25,000 cubits and a width of 10,000 cubits, and in it will be the sanctuary, the Most Holy Place.
- תָּמ֔וֹדtamodverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will measure
As the man went eastward with a measuring line in his hand, he measured off a thousand cubits and led me through ankle-deep water.
- וַיָּ֤מָדvaiyamodHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he measured out
Then he measured off a thousand cubits and led me through knee-deep water. Again he measured a thousand cubits and led me through waist-deep water.
- וַיָּ֣מָדvaiyamodHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he measured out
- וַיָּ֣מָדvaiyamodHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he measured out
Once again he measured off a thousand cubits, but now it was a river that I could not cross, because the water had risen and was deep enough for swimming—a river that could not be crossed on foot.
- וַיָּ֣מָדvaiyamodHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he measured out
Hosea
one use
Yet the number of the Israelites will be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or counted. And it will happen that in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’
- יִמַּ֖דyimadverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will be measured
Zechariah
one use
“Where are you going?” I asked. “To measure Jerusalem,” he replied, “and to determine its width and length.”
- לָמֹד֙lamodpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to measure
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.
