מִדָּה
middâh · mid-daw'
tribute in money
Lexicon
Derivation: (Aramaic) or מִנְדָּה; (Aramaic), corresponding to H4060 (מִדָּה);
tribute in money
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: toll, tribute.
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
4 occurrences · 4 OT · 0 NT · 4 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- toll2 · 50%
- and toll1 · 25%
- the tribute1 · 25%
Where it is used, by book.
- Ezra4
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.