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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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First occurrence: Genesis 18:6

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2 Kings 7:1
THEN Elisha said, Hear ye the word of the Lord; Thus saith the Lord, To morrow about this time shall a measure of fine flour be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · 2 Kings 7:1 · retained source text

¶ Then Elisha said, Heare yee the word of the LORD, Thus saith the LORD, To morrowe about this time shal a measure of fine flower be sold for a shekell, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.

2 Kings 7:16
And the people went out, and spoiled the tents of the Syrians. So a measure of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to the word of the Lord.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · 2 Kings 7:16 · retained source text

And the people went out, and spoiled the tents of the Syrians: So a measure of fine flowre was sold for a shekell, and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to the word of the LORD.

2 Kings 7:18
And it came to pass as the man of God had spoken to the king, saying, Two measures of barley for a shekel, and a measure of fine flour for a shekel, shall be to morrow about this time in the gate of Samaria:
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · 2 Kings 7:18 · retained source text

And it came to passe, as the man of God had spoken to the king, saying, Two measures of barley for a shekel, and a measure of fine flowre for a shekel, shalbe to morrow about this time, in the gate of Samaria:

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.
2 word occurrences in this verse
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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.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
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.

Ezra 7:22
Unto an hundred talents of silver, and to an hundred measures of wheat, and to an hundred baths of wine, and to an hundred baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Ezra 7:22 · retained source text

Unto an hundred talents of siluer, and to an hundred measures of wheate, and to an hundred bathes of wine, and to an hundred bathes of oyle, and salt, without prescribing how much.

1611 marginal noteChald: Cores.

Job 38:5
Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Job 38:5 · retained source text

Who hath layd the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line vpon it?

Proverbs 20:10
Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the Lord.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Proverbs 20:10 · retained source text

Diuers weights, and diuers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.

1611 marginal noteHebr. a stone, and a stone.

1611 marginal noteHebr. an ephah, and an ephah.

1611 marginal noteDeut. 25.15. chap.11.1. and .16.2.

Jeremiah 13:25
This is thy lot, the portion of thy measures from me, saith the Lord; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Jeremiah 13:25 · retained source text

This is thy lot, the portion of thy measures from me, saith the LORD, because thou hast forgotten mee, and trusted in falshood.

Ezekiel 40:24
¶ After that he brought me toward the south, and behold a gate toward the south: and he measured the posts thereof and the arches thereof according to these measures.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Ezekiel 40:24 · retained source text

¶ After that hee brought me toward the South, and behold a gate toward the South, and he measured the postes thereof, and the arches thereof according to these measures.

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