Lexical Definition

‎מִדָּה‎ middâh (mid-daw') measure ^H:N-F
feminine of ‎מַד‎

garment, measure(-ing, meteyard, piece, size, (great) stature, tribute, wide.

• 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)

1) measure, measurement, stature, size, garment
1a) measure, act of measurement
1b) measurement, size
1c) measured portion, extent
1d) garment
2) (BDB) tribute

See Greek: ἀριθμός · διάστημα · ἔνδυμα · ἵστημι · μέτρον · ὑψηλός · φόρος

Brown-Driver-Briggs

Also see: מָדוֹן

I. ‎מִדָּה‎ noun feminine measure, measurement, stature, size, garment (mostly late) — ‎׳‎‎מ‎ Exod 26:2 + 35 t.; construct ‎מִדַּת‎ Ezek 40:21 + 2 t.; plural ‎מִדּוֺת‎ Ezek 41:17 + 12 t.; ‎מִדּוֺתָיו‎ Ps 133:2 ‎מִדּוֺתֶיהָ‎ Ezek 48:16 —

1. measure, act of measurement, i.e. long measure Ezek 41:17 (strike out Co), Ezek 42:15; Ezek 48:30; Ezek 48:33 compare Josh 3:4 (P), 1Chr 23:29, see also Lev 19:35 (H); once of liquid measure, figurative, Job 28:25 ‎׳‎‎קַו֯ה הַמּ‎ Jer 31:39 measuring-line; ‎׳‎‎חֶבֶל מ‎ Zech 2:5* (id.); ‎׳‎‎קְנֵה הַמּ‎ measuring-reed Ezek 40:3; Ezek 40:5; Ezek 42:16 (strike out Co), vEzek 42:16 vEzek 42:17 vEzek 42:18 vEzek 42:19.

2. measurement, size of curtains in tabernacle Exod 26:2; Exod 26:8; Exod 36:9; Exod 36:15 (all P); compare 1Kgs 6:25; 1Kgs 7:37 (both || ‎קֶצֶב‎), v1Kgs 7:9 v1Kgs 7:11; 2Chr 3:3; Ezek 40:10 (twice in verse); Ezek 40:21; Ezek 40:22; Ezek 40:24; Ezek 40:28; Ezek 40:29; Ezek 40:32; Ezek 40:33; Ezek 40:35; Ezek 43:13; Ezek 46:22; Ezek 48:16 once of time, ‎מִדַּת יָמַי‎ Ps 39:5* probably also Job 11:9 (figurative of God's wisdom) where ‎מִדָּהּ‎ = ‎מִדָּתָהּ‎, compare Sta^{§ 347, approximately 2}; ‎בֵּית מִדּוֺת‎ = house of size Jer 22:14 ‎אִישׁ מִדָּה‎ = man of size, stature, 1Chr 11:23; 1Chr 20:6 so also probably || 2Sam 21:20 (for HCT ‎מדין‎, Qr ‎מָדוֺן‎, see [ ‎מַד‎]), We Dr Kit Bu; plural Num 13:32; Isa 45:14.

3. measured portion, extent, stretch (of wall) Neh 3:11; Neh 3:19; Neh 3:20; Neh 3:21; Neh 3:24; Neh 3:27; Neh 3:30, compare Ezek 45:3.

4. garment (plural poetic) Ps 133:2.

II. [‎מִדָּה‎] noun feminine tribute (loan-word from Assyrian mandattu, id., √ nadânu = ‎נָתַן‎ Dl^{HWB 451}, compare Schr^COT Ezra 4:13 also in Biblical Aramaic ‎מִנְדָּה‎, ‎ךמדֶּה‎ id.); — ‎מִדַּת הַמֶּלֶךְ‎ Neh 5:4.

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