Lexical Definition

‎מַד‎ mad (mad) garment ^H:N-M
or מֵד mêd (made); from ‎מָדַד‎

armour, clothes, garment, judgment, measure, raiment, stature.

• properly, extent, i.e. height
• also a measure
• by implication, a vesture (as measured)
• also a carpet

1) measure, cloth garment
1a) measure
1b) cloth, carpet
1c) garment (outer)

See Greek: ἱμάτιον · χιτών

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[‎מַד‎] noun masculine^{1Sam 4:12} measure, also cloth garment (as extended, wide); — suffix ‎מַדּוֺ‎ Ps 109:18 ‎מִדּוֺ‎ Lev 6:3*; 2Sam 20:8 (‎מִדָּהּ‎ Job 11:9, see below ‎מִדָּה‎); plural ‎מִדִּין‎ Judg 5:10 (see below), 2Sam 21:20 Kt (Qr ‎מָדוֺן‎; read perhaps ‎מִדָּה‎, see 1Chr 20:6, compare Dr); suffix ‎מִדַּיִךְ‎ Jer 13:25 ‎מַדָּיו‎ 1Sam 4:12 + 4 t.; —

1. measure (only plural) = apportionment Jer 13:25, ‎מְנָָֽתמִֿדַּיִךְ‎ (of lot of Judah, || ‎גּוֺרָל‎); compare literally 2Sam 21:20 Kt (but see ‎מִדָּה‎).

2. perhaps cloth, carpet (for sitting on), Judg 5:10 (so most, conjecture from context; on plural in ‎ן‎, see Ges^{«GKC:87»§ 87}, l. a).

3. garment, outer garment Judg 3:16; 1Sam 4:12, compare (simile) Ps 109:18 of fighting-attire 1Sam 17:38 (with verb ‎הִלְבִּשׁ‎), v1Sam 17:39; 1Sam 18:4; 2Sam 20:8 (|| ‎לְבוּשׁ‎); of priest's garment ‎וְלָבַשׁ הַכֹּהֵן מִדּוֺ בַד‎ Lev 6:3* compare [‎מָדוּ‎, ‎מַדְוֶה‎] below ‎מדה‎.

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