# H4058 מָדַד

מָדַד (mâdad), Strong’s H4058: properly, to stretch; by implication, to measure (as if by stretching a line); figuratively, to be extended KJV: measure, mete, stretch self.. Occurs 51 times.

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

KJV: measure, mete, stretch self.

Occurs 51 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- מָדַד 53 vb. measure
- Qal
- 1 measure of length, distance
- 2 of dry measure
- 3 fig. of measuring waters; of requital
- Niph. be measured
- Pi.
- 1 extend, continue (= make extent or continuation)
- 2 measure, measure off
- Po. measured
- Hithpo. measured (= extended, stretched) himself upon the boy

## Where it occurs
- [Exodus 16:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/16?v=18) — When they measured it with an omer, he who gathered much had nothing over, and he who gathered little had no lack. They…
- [Numbers 35:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/35?v=5) — You shall measure outside of the city for the east side two thousand cubits, and for the south side two thousand…
- [Deuteronomy 21:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/21?v=2) — then your elders and your judges shall come out, and they shall measure to the cities which are around him who is slain.
- [2 Samuel 8:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/8?v=2) — He defeated Moab, and measured them with the line, making them to lie down on the ground; and he measured two lines to…
- [1 Kings 17:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/17?v=21) — He stretched himself on the child three times, and cried to the LORD and said, “LORD my God, please let this child’s…
- [Isaiah 40:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/40?v=12) — Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and marked off the sky with his span, and calculated the dust of…
- [Isaiah 65:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/65?v=7) — your own iniquities and the iniquities of your fathers together”, says the LORD, “who have burned incense on the…
- [Jeremiah 31:37](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/31?v=37) — The LORD says: “If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, then I will…
- [Jeremiah 33:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/33?v=22) — As the army of the sky can’t be counted, and the sand of the sea can’t be measured, so I will multiply the offspring of…
- [Ezekiel 40:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/40?v=5) — Behold, there was a wall on the outside of the house all around, and in the man’s hand a measuring reed six cubits…