STRONGS NUMBER H4060


Word Summary
middah: measure, measurement, stature, size, a garment
Original Word: מִדָּה
Transliteration: middah
Phonetic Spelling: (mid-daw')
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: measure, measurement, stature, size, a garment
Meaning: extension, height, breadth, a measure, a portion, a vestment, tribute
Strong's Concordance
garment, measuring, piece, size, great stature, tribute, wide

Feminine of mad; 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) -- garment, measure(-ing, meteyard, piece, size, (great) stature, tribute, wide.

see HEBREW mad

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H4060. middah

I. מִדָּהnoun feminine measure, measurement, stature, size, garment (mostly late) — ׳מExodus 26:2 35t.; construct מִדַּתEzekiel 40:21 2t.; plural מִדּוֺת41:17 12t.; מִדּוֺתָיוPsalm 133:2; מִדּוֺתֶיהָEzekiel 48:16; —

1 measure, act of measurement, i.e. long measure Ezekiel 41:17 (strike out Co), 42:15; 48:30, 33; compare Joshua 3:4 (P), 1 Chronicles 23:29, see also Leviticus 19:35 (H); once of liquid measure, figurative, Job 28:25; הַמּ ׳קַו֯הJeremiah 31:39 measuring-line; מ ׳חֶבֶלZechariah 2:5 (id.); הַמּ ׳קְנֵהmeasuring-reed Ezekiel 40:3, 5; 42:16 (strike out Co), 42:16; 42:17; 42:18; 42:19.

2 measurement, size of curtains in tabernacle Exodus 26:2, 8; 36:9, 15 (all P); compare 1 Kings 6:25; 7:37 (both "" קֶצֶב‎), 7:9; 7:11; 2 Chronicles 3:3; Ezekiel 40:10 (twice in verse); 40:21-22, 24, 28, 29, 32, 33, 35; 43:13; 46:22; 48:16; once of time, יָמַי מִדַּתPsalm 39:5; probably also Job 11:9 (figurative of God's wisdom) where מִדָּהּ‎ = מִדָּתָהּ‎, compare Sta§ 347, approximately 2; מִדּוֺת בֵּית‎ = house of size Jeremiah 22:14; מִדָּה אִישׁ‎ = man of size, stature, 1 Chronicles 11:23; 20:6; so also probably "" 2 Samuel 21:20 (for HCT מדין‎, Qr מָדוֺן‎, see [ מַד‎]), We Dr Kit Bu; plural Numbers 13:32; Isaiah 45:14.

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

4 garment (plural poetic) Psalm 133:2.

II. [מִדָּה‎] noun feminine tribute (loan-word from Assyrian mandattu, id., √ nadânu = נָתַן‎ DlHWB 451, compare SchrCOT Ezra 4:13; also in Biblical Aramaic ךמדֶּה מִנְדָּה,id.); — הַמֶּלֶךְ מִדַּתNehemiah 5:4.

מדה‎ (secondary form of מדד‎; √ of following)