Hebrew noun (feminine) · H4884
מְשׂוּרָה
mesurahmes-oo-raw'
capacity
4 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: mᵉsûwrâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4884is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4884
a measure (for liquids)
The King James renders it: measure.
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
mesurah is rendered "capacity". It stands 4 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Two of the uses stand in Ezekiel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Leviticus 19:35You must not use dishonest measures of length, weight, or volume.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
You must not use dishonest measures of length, weight, or volume.
Leviticus 19:35וּבַמְּשׂוּרָֽה׃
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's four uses are in Ezekiel.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- by measure2
- and in the volume1
- measurement1
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| מְשׂוּכָה | mesukah | hedge | Uses2 |
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 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
- בִּמְשׂוּרָ֥ה2
- וּבַמְּשׂוּרָֽה׃1
- מְשׂוּרָ֖ה1
The grammar of each form
- preposition + noun · feminine singular2HR/Ncfsa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · feminine singular1HC/Rd/Ncfsa
- noun · feminine singular1HNcfsa
Leviticus
one use
You must not use dishonest measures of length, weight, or volume.
- וּבַמְּשׂוּרָֽה׃uvamesurahconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: and in the volume
1 Chronicles
one use
as well as for the rows of the showbread, the fine flour for the grain offering, the wafers of unleavened bread, the baking, the mixing, and all measurements of quantity and size.
- מְשׂוּרָ֖הmesurahnoun · feminine singulartagged: measurement
Ezekiel
two uses
You are also to measure out a sixth of a hin of water to drink, and you are to drink it at set times.
- בִּמְשׂוּרָ֥הbimsurahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: by measure
Then He told me, “Son of man, I am going to cut off the supply of food in Jerusalem. They will anxiously eat bread rationed by weight, and in despair they will drink water by measure.
- בִּמְשׂוּרָ֥הbimsurahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: by 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 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.