Measure

Several words are so rendered in the Authorized Version. (1.) "Those which are indefinite. (a) Hok, Isa. 5:14, elsewhere" "statute. (b) Mad, Job 11:9; Jer. 13:25, elsewhere "garment." "(c) Middah, the word most frequently thus translated, Ex. 26:2," "8, etc. (d) Mesurah, Lev. 19:35; 1 Chr. 23:29. (e) Mishpat, Jer." "30:11, elsewhere "judgment." (f) Mithkoneth and token, Ezek." "45:11. (g) In New Testament metron, the usual Greek word thus" rendered (Matt. 7:2; 23:32; Mark 4:24). "(2.) Those which are definite. (a) `Eyphah, Deut. 25:14, 15, "usually "ephah." (b) Ammah, Jer. 51:13, usually "cubit." (c)" "Kor, 1 Kings 4:22, elsewhere "cor;" Greek koros, Luke 16:7. (d)" "Seah, Gen. 18:6; 1 Sam. 25:18, a seah; Greek saton, Matt. 13:33;" "Luke 13:21. (e) Shalish, "a great measure," Isa. 40:12;" "literally a third, i.e., of an ephah. (f) In New Testament" "batos, Luke 16:6, the Hebrew "bath;" and choinix, Rev. 6:6, the" "choenix, equal in dry commodities to one-eighth of a modius."