KJV dictionary & concordance
Sense 1: Standards, vessels, or amounts used in measuring. Sense 2: Determines, allots, or proportions.
Definition sources
Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: Genesis 18:6
Complete exact-word concordance
It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.
It is like leauen, which a woman tooke and hidde in three measures of meale, till the whole was leauened.
1611 marginal noteSee Mat. 13.33.
And he said, An hundred measures of oil. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and sit down quickly, and write fifty.
And hee said, An hundred measures of oyle. And hee saide vnto him, Take thy bill, and sit downe quickly, and write fiftie.
1611 marginal noteThe word Batus in the originall conteineth nine gallons 3. quarts.
Then said he to another, And how much owest thou? And he said, An hundred measures of wheat. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and write fourscore.
Then said hee to another, And how much owest thou? And hee said, An hundred measures of wheat. And hee saide vnto him, Take thy bill and write fourescore.
1611 marginal noteThe word here interpreted a measure, in the originall conteineth about foureteene bushels and a pottle.
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