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measures

Meaning of “measures”

Sense 1: Standards, vessels, or amounts used in measuring. Sense 2: Determines, allots, or proportions.

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39 occurrences36 verses16 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: Genesis 18:6

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2 Chronicles 2:10
And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.
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1611 witness · 2 Chronicles 2:10 · retained source text

And behold, I will giue to thy seruants the hewers that cut timber, twentie thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twentie thousand measures of barley, and twentie thousand baths of wine, and twentie thousand baths of oyle.

2 Chronicles 27:5
¶ He fought also with the king of the Ammonites, and prevailed against them. And the children of Ammon gave him the same year an hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. So much did the children of Ammon pay unto him, both the second year, and the third.
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1611 witness · 2 Chronicles 27:5 · retained source text

¶ He fought also with the king of the Ammonites, and preuailed against them. And the children of Ammon gaue him the same yeere an hundred talents of siluer, and ten thousand measures of wheate, and tenne thousand of barley. So much did the children of Ammon pay vnto him, both the second yeere, and the third.

1611 marginal noteHeb. much.

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