מָדַד madad

Hebrew word for “to measure” · Strong’s H4058 · used 51 times in 49 verses

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Meaning

1) to measure, stretch;

How it is translated

Glosses given for madad in context, with how often each is used:

• measured 30
• will measure 5
• measured out 5
• will be measured 3
• measured off 2
• will measure off 2
• stretched himself 1
• will continue 1
• has he measured 1
• measure 1

Where it is used

Also in 1 more book.

Chapters where it is used most

Ezekiel 40 (16), Ezekiel 41 (7), Ezekiel 42 (6), Ezekiel 47 (3), Exodus 16 (1), Numbers 35 (1), Deuteronomy 21 (1), Ruth 3 (1), 2 Samuel 8 (1), 1 Kings 17 (1)

Forms

• וימד 23
• מדד 6
• ומדד 5
• ומדדו 3
• אמדד 2
• ימד 2
• וימדו 1
• ומדתם 1
• וימדדם 1
• וימדד 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with madad more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• אַמָּה ammah “cubit” 18
• רֹחַב rochav “width” 16
• מִדָּה middah “measure” 11
• שַׁעַר shaar “gate” 15
• אֹרֶךְ orekh “length” 10
• פְּנִימִי penimi “inner” 7
• קָנֶה qaneh “branch” 7
• מֵאָה meah “hundred” 11
• קָדִים qadim “east” 7
• חָמֵשׁ chamesh “five” 9
• חָצֵר chatser “court” 8
• סָבִיב saviv “around” 7

Key verses

The verses using madad that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• 2 Samuel 8:2 — And he smote Moab, and measured them with a line, casting them down to the ground; even with two lines measured he to put to death, and with one full line to…
• Psalms 60:6 — God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.
• Psalms 108:7 — God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.
• Isaiah 40:12 — Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed…
• Isaiah 65:7 — Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the LORD, which have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills:…
• Jeremiah 31:37 — Thus saith the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for…
• Jeremiah 33:22 — As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister…
• Ezekiel 40:6 — Then came he unto the gate which looketh toward the east, and went up the stairs thereof, and measured the threshold of the gate, which was one reed broad; and…
• Ezekiel 41:1 — Afterward he brought me to the temple, and measured the posts, six cubits broad on the one side, and six cubits broad on the other side, which was the breadth…
• Ezekiel 42:20 — He measured it by the four sides: it had a wall round about, five hundred reeds long, and five hundred broad, to make a separation between the sanctuary and…
• Ezekiel 43:10 — Thou son of man, shew the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities: and let them measure the pattern.
• Hosea 1:10 — Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.