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title: מְשׂוּרָה — measure · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מְשׂוּרָה (4884), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 4 times: measure. BDB 1906: n.f. measure. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מְשׂוּרָה

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«מְשׂוּרָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **measure** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 4 times · **Key:** 4884 · **BDB:** מְשׂוּרָה

### Glosses

measure (4)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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.)

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מְשׂוּרָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4884/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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.

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

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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.

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