διαμετρέω
measure out
Where this word appears
Every passage where διαμετρέω appears in the Greek Septuagint — 36 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- 2 Samuel 8:2 διαμετρέω And David struck Moab, and measured them out with lines, having laid them down on the ground: and there were two lines for slaying, and two lines he kept alive: and Moab became servants to David, yielding tribute.
- Psalms 59:8 διαμετρέω Judas is my king; Moab is the caldron of my hope; over Idumea will I stretch out my shoe; the Philistines have been subjected to me.
- Psalms 107:8 διαμετρέω Galaad is mine; and Manasses is mine; and Ephraim is the help of my head; Judas is my king;
- Ezekiel 40:5 διαμετρέω And behold a wall round about the house without, and in the man's hand a reed, the measure of it was six cubits by the cubit, and a span: and he measured across the front wall; the breadth was equal to the reed, and the length of it equal to the reed.
- Ezekiel 40:6 διαμετρέω And he entered by seven steps into the gate that looks eastward, and he measured across the porch of the gate equal to the reed.
- Ezekiel 40:11 διαμετρέω And he measured the breadth of the door of the gateway, ten cubits; and the breadth of the gateway thirteen cubits.
- Ezekiel 40:13 διαμετρέω And he measured the gate from the wall of one chamber to the wall of the other chamber: the breadth was twenty-five cubits, the one gate over against the other gate.
- Ezekiel 40:19 διαμετρέω And he measured the breadth of the court, from the open space of the outer gate inwards to the open space of the gate looking outwards: one hundred cubits was the distance to the place of the gate looking eastward: and he brought me to the north;
- Ezekiel 40:20 διαμετρέω and behold a gate looking northwards belonging to the outer court, and he measured it, both the length of it and the breadth;
- Ezekiel 40:23 διαμετρέω And there was a gate to the inner court looking toward the north gate, after the manner of the gate looking toward the east; and he measured the court from gate to gate, one hundred cubits.
- Ezekiel 40:24 διαμετρέω And he brought me to the south side, and behold a gate looking southwards: and he measured it, and its chambers, and its posts, and its porches, according to these dimensions.
- Ezekiel 40:27 διαμετρέω And there was a gate opposite the gate of the inner court southward: and he measured the court from gate to gate, one hundred cubits in breadth southward.
- Ezekiel 40:28 διαμετρέω And he brought me into the inner court of the south gate: and he measured the gate according to these measures;
- Ezekiel 40:32 διαμετρέω And he brought me in at the gate that looks eastward: and he measured it according to these measures:
- Ezekiel 40:35 διαμετρέω And he brought me in at the northern gate, and measured it according to these measures;
- Ezekiel 40:47 διαμετρέω And he measured the court, the length whereof was one hundred cubits, and the breadth one hundred cubits, on its four sides; and the altar in front of the house.
- Ezekiel 40:48 διαμετρέω And he brought me into the porch of the house; and he measured the post of the porch, the breadth was five cubits on one side and five cubits on the other side; and the breadth of the door was fourteen cubits, and the side-pieces of the door of the porch were three cubits on one side, and three cubits on the other side.
- Ezekiel 41:1 διαμετρέω And he brought me into the temple, the porch of which he measured, six cubits the breadth on one side, and six cubits the breadth of the porch on the other side.
- Ezekiel 41:2 διαμετρέω And the breadth of the gateway was ten cubits, and the side-pieces of the gateway were five cubits on this side, and five cubits on that side: and he measured the length of it, forty cubits, and the breadth, twenty cubits.
- Ezekiel 41:3 διαμετρέω And he went into the inner court, and measured the post of the door, two cubits; and the door, six cubits; and the side-pieces of the door, seven cubits on one side, and seven cubits on the other side.
- Ezekiel 41:4 διαμετρέω And he measured the length of the doors, forty cubits; and the breadth, twenty cubits, in front of the temple: and he said, This is the holy of holies.
- Ezekiel 41:5 διαμετρέω And he measured the wall of the house, six cubits: and the breadth of each side, four cubits round about.
- Ezekiel 41:13 διαμετρέω And he measured in front of the house a length of one hundred cubits, and the remaining spaces and the partitions; and the walls thereof were in length one hundred cubits.
- Ezekiel 41:15 διαμετρέω And he measured the length of the partition in front of the space left by the back parts of that house; and the spaces left on this side and on that side were in length one hundred cubits: and the temple and the corners and the outer porch were ceiled.
- Ezekiel 41:26 διαμετρέω And there were secret windows; and he measured from side to side, to the roofing of the porch; and the sides of the house were closely planked.
- Ezekiel 42:15 διαμετρέω So the measurement of the house within was accomplished: and he brought me forth by the way of the gate that looks eastward, and measured the plan of the house round about in order.
- Ezekiel 42:16 διαμετρέω And he stood behind the gate looking eastward, and measured five hundred cubits with the measuring reed.
- Ezekiel 42:17 διαμετρέω And he turned to the north and measured in front of the north side five hundred cubits with the measuring reed.
- Ezekiel 42:18 διαμετρέω And he turned to the west, and measured in front of the west side, five hundred cubits with the measuring reed.
- Ezekiel 42:19 διαμετρέω And he turned to the south, and measured in front of the south side, five hundred cubits by the measuring reed.
- Ezekiel 45:3 διαμετρέω And out of this measurement shall you measure the length five and twenty thousand, and the breadth twenty thousand: and in it shall be the holy of holies.
- Ezekiel 47:3 διαμετρέω in the direction in which a man went forth opposite; and there was a measuring line in his hand, and he measured a thousand cubits with the measure;
- Ezekiel 47:4 διαμετρέω and he passed through the water; it was water of a fountain: and again he measured a thousand, and passed through the water; and the water was up to the thighs: and again he measured a thousand; and he passed through water up to the loins.
- Ezekiel 47:4 διαμετρέω and he passed through the water; it was water of a fountain: and again he measured a thousand, and passed through the water; and the water was up to the thighs: and again he measured a thousand; and he passed through water up to the loins.
- Ezekiel 47:5 διαμετρέω and again he measured a thousand; and he could not pass through: for the water rose as of a torrent which men can’t pass over.
- Zechariah 2:6 διαμετρέω Ho, ho, flee from the land of the north, says the Lord: for I will gather you from the four winds of heaven, says the Lord,
About this word
About this word
διαμετρέω (diametréō), “measure out,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 36 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →