H4971: מַתְכֹנֶת
mathkôneth · pronounced math-ko'-neth · “tally”
Definition
proportion (in size, number or ingredients)
KJV translates it as: composition, measure, state, tale.
Word origin: or מַתְכֻנֶת; from H8505 (תָּכַן) in the transferred sense of measuring;
Extended definition
1a) tale, tally (of bricks)
1b) measurement, proportion
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H4971 is translated
- its ×4
- the measurement of ×1
Bible verses with H4971 (mathkôneth)
Mathkôneth appears in 5 verses.
- Exodus 5:8
And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish ought thereof: for they be idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.
- Exodus 30:32
Upon man’s flesh shall it not be poured, neither shall ye make any other like it, after the composition of it: it is holy, and it shall be holy unto you.
- Exodus 30:37
And as for the perfume which thou shalt make, ye shall not make to yourselves according to the composition thereof: it shall be unto thee holy for the Lord.
- 2 Chronicles 24:13
So the workmen wrought, and the work was perfected by them, and they set the house of God in his state, and strengthened it.
- Ezekiel 45:11
The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer.