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# מַתְכֹנֶת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4971

**measurement** — used 5 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

measurement [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4971/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַתְכֹּ֫נֶת²: n.f. measurement, tale, proportion [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4971/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. measurement, tale, proportion;— cstr. מ׳ הַלְּבֵנִים Ex 5:8 (J) the tale of bricks (cf. i. תֹּכֶן). sf. -כֻּנְתּוֹ measurement, proportion, of ephah and bath Ez 45:11; of composition of sacred oil Ex 30:32, -תָּהּ v 37 (P); of temple, its measurement, proportion -תּוֹ 2 Ch 24:13.

Why these entries: BDB: headword without dagesh, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: measurement (2); proportion\[s\] (2); the measurement (1).

## In the verses

[Exodus 30:37](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.30.37/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.30.37/#tree)

וְהַקְּטֹ֙רֶת֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר תַּעֲשֶׂ֔ה בְּמַ֨תְכֻּנְתָּ֔הּ לֹ֥א תַעֲשׂ֖וּ לָכֶ֑ם קֹ֛דֶשׁ תִּהְיֶ֥ה לְךָ֖ לַיהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and the incense which you.will.make in proportion\[s\] its not you.must.make for yourselves a.holy.thing it.will.be to you to Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* And the incense which thou shalt make, according to the composition thereof ye shall not make for yourselves; it shall be unto thee holy for the LORD.

[Exodus 30:32](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.30.32/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.30.32/#tree)

עַל־בְּשַׂ֤ר אָדָם֙ לֹ֣א יִיסָ֔ךְ וּבְמַ֨תְכֻּנְתּ֔וֹ לֹ֥א תַעֲשׂ֖וּ כָּמֹ֑הוּ קֹ֣דֶשׁ ה֔וּא קֹ֖דֶשׁ יִהְיֶ֥ה לָכֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* on \[the\].body of.a.person not it.will.be.poured and in proportion\[s\] its not you.must.make like it \[is\].a.holy.thing it a.holy.thing it.will.be to you

*JPS 1917:* Upon the flesh of man shall it not be poured, neither shall ye make any like it, according to the composition thereof; it is holy, and it shall be holy unto you.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4971.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4971/): 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).