# מָדַד (madad)

Israeli respelling: ma-dad. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H4058. 49 Old Testament occurrences.

properly, to stretch; by implication, to measure (as if by stretching a line); figuratively, to be extended

King James renderings: measure, mete, stretch self.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/madad-h4058

## Occurrences

- [Exodus 16:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/16/18) — And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered ever…
- [Numbers 35:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/35/5) — And ye shall measure from without the city on the east side two thousand cubits, and on the south side two thousand cubits, and on the west…
- [Deuteronomy 21:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/21/2) — Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain:
- [Ruth 3:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ruth/3/15) — Also he said, Bring the vail that thou hast upon thee, and hold it. And when she held it, he measured six measures of barley, and laid it o…
- [2 Samuel 8:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/8/2) — And he smote Moab, and measured them with a line, casting them down to the ground; even with two lines measured he to put to death, and wit…
- [1 Kings 17:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/17/21) — And he stretched himself upon the child three times, and cried unto the LORD, and said, O LORD my God, I pray thee, let this child’s soul c…
- [Psalms 60:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/60/6) — God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.
- [Psalms 108:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/108/7) — God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.
- [Isaiah 40:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/40/12) — Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a mea…
- [Isaiah 65:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/65/7) — Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the LORD, which have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed…
- [Jeremiah 31:37](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/31/37) — Thus saith the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the s…
- [Jeremiah 33:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/33/22) — As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Le…
- [Ezekiel 40:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/40/5) — And behold a wall on the outside of the house round about, and in the man’s hand a measuring reed of six cubits long by the cubit and an ha…
- [Ezekiel 40:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/40/6) — Then came he unto the gate which looketh toward the east, and went up the stairs thereof, and measured the threshold of the gate, which was…
- [Ezekiel 40:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/40/8) — He measured also the porch of the gate within, one reed.
- [Ezekiel 40:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/40/9) — Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and the posts thereof, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was inward.
- [Ezekiel 40:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/40/11) — And he measured the breadth of the entry of the gate, ten cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits.
- [Ezekiel 40:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/40/13) — He measured then the gate from the roof of one little chamber to the roof of another: the breadth was five and twenty cubits, door against…
- [Ezekiel 40:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/40/19) — Then he measured the breadth from the forefront of the lower gate unto the forefront of the inner court without, an hundred cubits eastward…
- [Ezekiel 40:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/40/20) — And the gate of the outward court that looked toward the north, he measured the length thereof, and the breadth thereof.
- [Ezekiel 40:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/40/23) — And the gate of the inner court was over against the gate toward the north, and toward the east; and he measured from gate to gate an hundr…
- [Ezekiel 40:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 acc…
- [Ezekiel 40:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/40/27) — And there was a gate in the inner court toward the south: and he measured from gate to gate toward the south an hundred cubits.
- [Ezekiel 40:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/40/28) — And he brought me to the inner court by the south gate: and he measured the south gate according to these measures;
- [Ezekiel 40:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/40/32) — And he brought me into the inner court toward the east: and he measured the gate according to these measures.
- [Ezekiel 40:35](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/40/35) — And he brought me to the north gate, and measured it according to these measures;
- [Ezekiel 40:47](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/40/47) — So he measured the court, an hundred cubits long, and an hundred cubits broad, foursquare; and the altar that was before the house.
- [Ezekiel 40:48](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/40/48) — And he brought me to the porch of the house, and measured each post of the porch, five cubits on this side, and five cubits on that side: a…
- [Ezekiel 41:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/41/1) — Afterward he brought me to the temple, and measured the posts, six cubits broad on the one side, and six cubits broad on the other side, wh…
- [Ezekiel 41:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/41/2) — And the breadth of the door was ten cubits; and the sides of the door were five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on the other side:…
- [Ezekiel 41:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/41/3) — Then went he inward, and measured the post of the door, two cubits; and the door, six cubits; and the breadth of the door, seven cubits.
- [Ezekiel 41:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/41/4) — So he measured the length thereof, twenty cubits; and the breadth, twenty cubits, before the temple: and he said unto me, This is the most…
- [Ezekiel 41:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/41/5) — After he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of every side chamber, four cubits, round about the house on every sid…
- [Ezekiel 41:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/41/13) — So he measured the house, an hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with the walls thereof, an hundred cubits long;
- [Ezekiel 41:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/41/15) — And he measured the length of the building over against the separate place which was behind it, and the galleries thereof on the one side a…
- [Ezekiel 42:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/42/15) — Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he brought me forth toward the gate whose prospect is toward the east, and measur…
- [Ezekiel 42:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/42/16) — He measured the east side with the measuring reed, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.
- [Ezekiel 42:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/42/17) — He measured the north side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.
- [Ezekiel 42:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/42/18) — He measured the south side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed.
- [Ezekiel 42:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/42/19) — He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.
- [Ezekiel 42:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/42/20) — He measured it by the four sides: it had a wall round about, five hundred reeds long, and five hundred broad, to make a separation between…
- [Ezekiel 43:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/43/10) — Thou son of man, shew the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities: and let them measure the pattern.
- [Ezekiel 45:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/45/3) — And of this measure shalt thou measure the length of five and twenty thousand, and the breadth of ten thousand: and in it shall be the sanc…
- [Ezekiel 47:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/47/3) — And when the man that had the line in his hand went forth eastward, he measured a thousand cubits, and he brought me through the waters; th…
- [Ezekiel 47:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/47/4) — Again he measured a thousand, and brought me through the waters; the waters were to the knees. Again he measured a thousand, and brought me…
- [Ezekiel 47:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/47/5) — Afterward he measured a thousand; and it was a river that I could not pass over: for the waters were risen, waters to swim in, a river that…
- [Ezekiel 47:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/47/18) — And the east side ye shall measure from Hauran, and from Damascus, and from Gilead, and from the land of Israel by Jordan, from the border…
- [Hosea 1:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/1/10) — Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass,…
- [Zechariah 2:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/2/2) — Then said I, Whither goest thou? And he said unto me, To measure Jerusalem, to see what is the breadth thereof, and what is the length ther…