Limitless Word
מָדַדmâdad/maw-dad'/
HebrewH405851 occurrences (KJV)

properly, to stretch; by implication, to measure (as if by stretching a line); figuratively, to be extended

KJV renders it: measure, mete, stretch self.

Where it appears(showing the first 49 of 51)

  • Exod 16:18When they measured it with an omer, he who gathered much had nothing over, and he who gathered little had no lack. They gathered every man according to his eating.
  • Num 35:5You shall measure outside of the city for the east side two thousand cubits, and for the south side two thousand cubits, and for the west side two thousand cubits, and for the north side two thousand cubits, the city being in the middle. This shall be the suburbs of their cities.
  • Deut 21:2then your elders and your judges shall come out, and they shall measure to the cities which are around him who is slain.
  • Ruth 3:15He said, “Bring the mantle that is on you, and hold it.” She held it; and he measured six measures of barley, and laid it on her; then he went into the city.
  • 2 Sam 8:2He struck Moab, and measured them with the line, making them to lie down on the ground; and he measured two lines to put to death, and one full line to keep alive. The Moabites became servants to David, and brought tribute.
  • 1 Kgs 17:21He stretched himself on the child three times, and cried to Yahweh, and said, “Yahweh my God, please let this child’s soul come into him again.”
  • Ps 60:6God has spoken from his sanctuary: “I will triumph. I will divide Shechem, and measure out the valley of Succoth.
  • Ps 108:7God has spoken from his sanctuary: “In triumph, I will divide Shechem, and measure out the valley of Succoth.
  • Isa 40:12Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and marked off the sky with his span, and calculated the dust of the earth in a measuring basket, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
  • Isa 65:7your own iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together”, says Yahweh, “who have burned incense on the mountains, and blasphemed me on the hills. Therefore I will first measure their work into their bosom.”
  • Jer 31:37Yahweh says: “If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, then I will also cast off all the offspring of Israel for all that they have done,” says Yahweh.
  • Jer 33:22As the army of the sky can’t be counted, neither the sand of the sea measured; so I will multiply the offspring of David my servant, and the Levites who minister to me.’”
  • Ezek 40:5Behold, a wall on the outside of the house all around, and in the man’s hand a measuring reed six cubits long, of a cubit and a hand width each: so he measured the thickness of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed.
  • Ezek 40:6Then came he to the gate which looks toward the east, and went up its steps: and he measured the threshold of the gate, one reed wide; and the other threshold, one reed wide.
  • Ezek 40:8He measured also the porch of the gate toward the house, one reed.
  • Ezek 40:9Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and its posts, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was toward the house.
  • Ezek 40:11He measured the width of the opening of the gate, ten cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits;
  • Ezek 40:13He measured the gate from the roof of the one lodge to the roof of the other, a width of twenty-five cubits; door against door.
  • Ezek 40:19Then he measured the width from the forefront of the lower gate to the forefront of the inner court outside, one hundred cubits, both on the east and on the north.
  • Ezek 40:20The gate of the outer court whose prospect is toward the north, he measured its length and its width.
  • Ezek 40:23There was a gate to the inner court facing the other gate, on the north and on the east; and he measured from gate to gate one hundred cubits.
  • Ezek 40:24He led me toward the south; and behold, a gate toward the south: and he measured its posts and its arches according to these measurements.
  • Ezek 40:27There was a gate to the inner court toward the south: and he measured from gate to gate toward the south a hundred cubits.
  • Ezek 40:28Then he brought me to the inner court by the south gate: and he measured the south gate according to these measurements;
  • Ezek 40:32He brought me into the inner court toward the east: and he measured the gate according to these measurements;
  • Ezek 40:35He brought me to the north gate: and he measured it according to these measurements;
  • Ezek 40:47He measured the court, one hundred cubits long, and a hundred cubits wide, square; and the altar was before the house.
  • Ezek 40:48Then he brought me to the porch of the house, and measured each post of the porch, five cubits on this side, and five cubits on that side: and the width of the gate was three cubits on this side, and three cubits on that side.
  • Ezek 41:1He brought me to the temple, and measured the posts, six cubits wide on the one side, and six cubits wide on the other side, which was the width of the tent.
  • Ezek 41:2The width of the entrance was ten cubits; and the sides of the entrance were five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on the other side: and he measured its length, forty cubits, and the width, twenty cubits.
  • Ezek 41:3Then went he inward, and measured each post of the entrance, two cubits; and the entrance, six cubits; and the width of the entrance, seven cubits.
  • Ezek 41:4He measured its length, twenty cubits, and the width, twenty cubits, before the temple: and he said to me, This is the most holy place.
  • Ezek 41:5Then he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the width of every side room, four cubits, all around the house on every side.
  • Ezek 41:13So he measured the house, one hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with its walls, one hundred cubits long;
  • Ezek 41:15He measured the length of the building before the separate place which was at its back, and its galleries on the one side and on the other side, one hundred cubits; and the inner temple, and the porches of the court;
  • Ezek 42:15Now when he had finished measuring the inner house, he brought me out by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east, and measured it all around.
  • Ezek 42:16He measured on the east side with the measuring reed five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed all around.
  • Ezek 42:17He measured on the north side five hundred reeds with the measuring reed all around.
  • Ezek 42:18He measured on the south side five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.
  • Ezek 42:19He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.
  • Ezek 42:20He measured it on the four sides: it had a wall around it, the length five hundred, and the width five hundred, to make a separation between that which was holy and that which was common.
  • Ezek 43:10You, son of man, show the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities; and let them measure the pattern.
  • Ezek 45:3Of this measure you shall measure a length of twenty-five thousand, and a width of ten thousand: and in it shall be the sanctuary, which is most holy.
  • Ezek 47:3When the man went out eastward with the line in his hand, he measured one thousand cubits, and he caused me to pass through the waters, waters that were to the ankles.
  • Ezek 47:4Again he measured one thousand, and caused me to pass through the waters, waters that were to the knees. Again he measured one thousand, and caused me to pass through waters that were to the waist.
  • Ezek 47:5Afterward he measured one thousand; and it was a river that I could not pass through; for the waters were risen, waters to swim in, a river that could not be passed through.
  • Ezek 47:18The east side, between Hauran and Damascus and Gilead, and the land of Israel, shall be the Jordan; from the north border to the east sea you shall measure. This is the east side.
  • Hos 1:10Yet the number of the children of Israel will be as the sand of the sea, which can’t be measured or counted; and it will come to pass that, in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’
  • Zech 2:2Then I asked, “Where are you going?” He said to me, “To measure Jerusalem, to see what is its width and what is its length.”

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.