STRONGS NUMBER H4055


Word Summary
mad or med: a measure, cloth garment
Original Word: מַד
Transliteration: mad or med
Phonetic Spelling: (mad)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: a measure, cloth garment
Meaning: extent, height, a measure, a vesture, a carpet
Strong's Concordance
armour, clothes, garment, judgment, measure, raiment, stature

Or med {made}; from madad; properly, extent, i.e. Height; also a measure; by implication, a vesture (as measured); also a carpet -- armour, clothes, garment, judgment, measure, raiment, stature.

see HEBREW madad

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H4055. mad

or med [מַד‎] noun masculine1 Samuel 4:12 measure, also cloth garment (as extended, wide); — suffix מַדּוֺPsalm 109:18; מִדּוֺLeviticus 6:3; 2 Samuel 20:8 (מִדָּהּJob 11:9, see below מִדָּה‎); plural מִדִּיןJudges 5:10 (see below), 2 Samuel 21:20 Kt (Qr מָדוֺן‎; read perhaps מִדָּה‎, see 1 Chronicles 20:6, compare Dr); suffix מִדַּיִךְJeremiah 13:25; מַדָּיו1 Samuel 4:12 4t.; —

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

2 perhaps cloth, carpet (for sitting on), Judges 5:10 (so most, conjecture from context; on plural in ן‎, see Ges§ 87, l. a).

3 garment, outer garment Judges 3:16; 1 Samuel 4:12, compare (simile) Psalm 109:18; of fighting-attire 1 Samuel 17:38 (with verb הִלְבִּשׁ‎), 17:39; 18:4; 2 Samuel 20:8 ("" לְבוּשׁ‎); of priest's garment בַד מִדּוֺ הַכֹּהֵן וְלָבַשׁLeviticus 6:3; compare [מַדְוֶה מָדוּ,‎] below מדה‎.