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# מְשׂוּרָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4884

**measure** — used 4 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

measure [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4884/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מְשׂוּרָה: n.f. measure [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4884/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. measure, of water, Ez 4:11, 16 (‖ מִשְׁקָל); capacity in gen., Lv 19:35 (+ מִדָּה, מִשְׁקָל), 1 Ch 23:29 (deriv. dub.)

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: measure (4).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 4:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.4.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.4.11/#tree)

וּמַ֛יִם בִּמְשׂוּרָ֥ה תִשְׁתֶּ֖ה שִׁשִּׁ֣ית הַהִ֑ין מֵעֵ֥ת עַד־עֵ֖ת תִּשְׁתֶּֽה׃

*Word for word:* and water by measure you.will.drink (the).sixth of.(the) hin from time to time you.will.drink.\[it\]

*JPS 1917:* Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of a hin; from time to time shalt thou drink.

[Leviticus 19:35](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.19.35/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.19.35/#tree)

לֹא־תַעֲשׂ֥וּ עָ֖וֶל בַּמִּשְׁפָּ֑ט בַּמִּדָּ֕ה בַּמִּשְׁקָ֖ל וּבַמְּשׂוּרָֽה׃

*Word for word:* not you.will.do injustice in (the) judgment in (the) measurement in (the) weight and in (the) measure

*JPS 1917:* Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4884/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).