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mete to measure

Matthew 7:2 — "with what measure ye mete" — is the measure you measure with. It survives today only in "mete out".

Means: to measureIn the KJV: 10 timesStill in use, different meaning

Forms in the text

mete 6×meted 3×meteyard 1×

The word behind it

Where it appears

All 10 verses.

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 every man according to his eating.

Leviticus 19:35

Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.

Psalm 60:6

God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.

Psalm 108:7

God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.

Isaiah 18:2

That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!

Isaiah 18:7

In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion.

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 measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

Matthew 7:2

For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

Mark 4:24

And he said unto them, Take heed what ye hear: with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you: and unto you that hear shall more be given.

Luke 6:38

Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.

Common questions

What does "mete" mean in the Bible?

In the King James Version mete means to measure. Matthew 7:2 — "with what measure ye mete" — is the measure you measure with. It survives today only in "mete out".

How many times does "mete" appear in the King James Version?

10 times, counting its other forms (mete 6 times, meted 3 times, meteyard 1 time).

What Hebrew word is behind "mete"?

Most often מָדַד (mâdad), Strong's H4058, meaning properly, to stretch; by implication, to measure (as if by stretching a line); figuratively, to be extended.

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