מִדָּה
middâh · mid-daw'
properly, extension, i.e. height or breadth; also a measure (including its standard); hence a portion (as measured) or a vestment; specifically, tribute (as measured)
Lexicon
Derivation: feminine of H4055 (מַד);
properly, extension, i.e. height or breadth; also a measure (including its standard); hence a portion (as measured) or a vestment; specifically, tribute (as measured)
- properly, extension, i.e. height or breadth
- also, a measure (including its standard)
- hence, a portion (as measured) or a vestment
- specifically, tribute (as measured)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: garment, measure(-ing, meteyard, piece, size, (great) stature, tribute, wide.
Letters
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- דDalet4
Picture: tent door hanging down
- Concrete
- door · curtain · entrance
- Extended
- a way in or out · moving back and forth · a path · hanging
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
water, chaos, the mighty deep › the doorway, the way in › to reveal, behold
Water, chaos, the mighty deep of the doorway, the way in that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of מִדָּה above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
55 occurrences · 55 OT · 0 NT · 34 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- measure8 · 17%
- piece7 · 15%
- with the measuring5 · 10%
- by measure3 · 6%
- size2 · 4%
- of great stature2 · 4%
- according to these measures2 · 4%
- measures2 · 4%
- in meteyard1 · 2%
- of a great stature1 · 2%
- according to the measures1 · 2%
- after the measures1 · 2%
- and size1 · 2%
- tribute1 · 2%
- and the measure1 · 2%
- of his garments1 · 2%
- of stature1 · 2%
- me a wide1 · 2%
- and the measuring1 · 2%
- and a measuring1 · 2%
- a measuring1 · 2%
- thereof were after the measure1 · 2%
- were after the measure1 · 2%
- thereof according to these measures1 · 2%
- thereof, according to these measures1 · 2%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.