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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 39
    Old Testament books
  • 33
    spellings

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

Thirty-five of the word's fifty-one uses are in Ezekiel.

The other 26 Old Testament books never use the word.

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.

מָדַיMadayMedeUses5
מָדַיMadayMedeUses1
מָדַיMadayMedeUses1

The words it stands beside

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.

    Exodus 16:18

    • 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.

    Numbers 35:5

    • 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.

    Deuteronomy 21:2

    • 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.

    Ruth 3:15

    • 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.

    2 Samuel 8:2

    • 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!”

    1 Kings 17:21

    • 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.

    Job 7:4

    • 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.

    Psalms 60:6

    • 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.

    Psalms 108:7

    • 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?

    Isaiah 40:12

    • 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.”

    Isaiah 65:7

    • 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.

    Jeremiah 31:37

    • 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.”

    Jeremiah 33:22

    • 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.

    Ezekiel 40:5

    • 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.

    Ezekiel 40:6

    • וַיָּ֣מָד׀vaiyamodHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he measured
  • Then he measured the portico of the gateway inside;

    Ezekiel 40:8

    • 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.

    Ezekiel 40:9

    • וַיָּ֜מָדvaiyamodHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he measured
  • And he measured the width of the gateway entrance to be ten cubits, and its length was thirteen cubits.

    Ezekiel 40:11

    • 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.

    Ezekiel 40:13

    • 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.

    Ezekiel 40:19

    • וַיָּ֣מָדvaiyamodHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he measured
  • He also measured the length and width of the gateway of the outer court facing north.

    Ezekiel 40:20

    • 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.

    Ezekiel 40:23

    • 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.

    Ezekiel 40:24

    • 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.

    Ezekiel 40:27

    • 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.

    Ezekiel 40:28

    • 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.

    Ezekiel 40:32

    • וַיָּ֣מָדvaiyamodHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he measured
  • Then he brought me to the north gate and measured it. It had the same measurements as the others,

    Ezekiel 40:35

    • 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.

    Ezekiel 40:47

    • 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.

    Ezekiel 40:48

    • 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.

    Ezekiel 41:1

    • 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.

    Ezekiel 41:2

    • 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.

    Ezekiel 41:3

    • 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.”

    Ezekiel 41:4

    • 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.

    Ezekiel 41:5

    • 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.

    Ezekiel 41:13

    • 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,

    Ezekiel 41:15

    • 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:

    Ezekiel 42:15

    • וּמְדָד֖וֹumedadoHc/Vqq3ms/Sp3mstagged: and he measured it
  • With a measuring rod he measured the east side to be five hundred cubits long.

    Ezekiel 42:16

    • מָדַ֛דmadadverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he measured
  • He measured the north side to be five hundred cubits long.

    Ezekiel 42:17

    • מָדַ֖דmadadverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he measured
  • He measured the south side to be five hundred cubits long.

    Ezekiel 42:18

    • 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.

    Ezekiel 42:19

    • 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.

    Ezekiel 42:20

    • 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,

    Ezekiel 43:10

    • 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.

    Ezekiel 45:3

    • 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.

    Ezekiel 47:3

    • 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.

    Ezekiel 47:4

    • 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.

    Ezekiel 47:5

    • 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.’

    Hosea 1:10

    • 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.”

    Zechariah 2:2

    • לָמֹד֙lamodpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to measure

The letters

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.

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Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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