מַתְכֹ֫נֶת
measurement
also: proportion, tale fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H4971 appears — 5 distinct verses across 3 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Exodus 3 verses
- Exodus 5:8 מַתְכֹּ֨נֶת n c fs cs The number of the bricks, which they made before, you require from them. You shall not diminish anything of it, for they are idle; therefore they cry, saying, 'Let us go and sacrifice to our God.'
- Exodus 30:32 וּ/בְ/מַ֨תְכֻּנְתּ֔/וֹ conj + prep + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms It shall not be poured on man's flesh, neither shall you make any like it, according to its composition: it is holy. It shall be holy to you.
- Exodus 30:37 בְּ/מַ֨תְכֻּנְתָּ֔/הּ prep + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3fs The incense which you shall make, according to its composition you shall not make for yourselves: it shall be to you holy for Yahweh.
2 Chronicles 1 verse
Ezekiel 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
מתכנת — transliterated mathkôneth — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “measurement.” The Hebrew Bible uses it only 5 verses. Its uses cluster heavily in Exodus (60% of all occurrences). It first appears in Exodus 5:8. It also covers “proportion” and “tale”, alongside “measurement” — see its full sense range. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H4971 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 5
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 5 distinct verses.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #3,337
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,337 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 5 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Exodus 3 verses 60%
- 2 Chronicles 1 verse 20%
- Ezekiel 1 verse 20%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 5 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 3 verses · 60%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 20%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 20%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Any other like it after the composition 1×, Measure 1×, State 1×
- American Standard Version: According to the composition 1×, Any like it 1×, Measure 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Formula 1×, Same formula 1×, Same quota 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Formula 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H4971 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H4971 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H4971 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H4971 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 2 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. cstr. מ׳ הַלְּבֵנִים Ex 5:8 (J) the tale of bricks (cf. i. תֹּכֶן). e.g. Exodus 5:8
- 2. sf. -כֻּנְתּוֹ measurement, proportion, of ephah and bath Ez 45:11; of composition of sacred oil Ex 30:32, -תָּהּ v 37 (P); of temple, its measurement, proportion -תּוֹ 2 Ch 24:13. e.g. Ezekiel 45:11
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
n.f. measurement, tale, proportion;—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from תכן (tâkan) (H8505) — to measure.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms H4971 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| בְּ/מַ֨תְכֻּנְתָּ֔/הּ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Exodus 30:37 | 1 |
| וּ/בְ/מַ֨תְכֻּנְתּ֔/וֹ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Exodus 30:32 | 1 |
| מַתְכֹּ֨נֶת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Exodus 5:8 | 1 |
| מַתְכֻּנְתּ֖/וֹ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | 2 Chronicles 24:13 | 1 |
| מַתְכֻּנְתּֽ/וֹ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Ezekiel 45:11 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H4971, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 5 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 5 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
