Word

מַתְכֹנֶת

mathkôneth · H4971 · Hebrew · 5 occurrences

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Meanings

number, quantity, volume

The size or quantity of objects

Examples
Ezekiel 45:11 “The ephah and the bath shall be the same quantity, so that the bath will contain a tenth of a homer, and the ephah a tenth of a homer; their standard shall be according to the homer.
plan, structure, composition

A complete set of measures, quantities and sizes for something to be built or prepared

Examples
Exodus 30:32 ‘It shall not be poured on anyone’s body, nor shall you make any like it in the same proportions; it is holy, and it shall be holy to you.
Exodus 30:37 “And the incense which you shall make, you shall not make in the same proportions for yourselves; it shall be holy to you for the LORD.
2 Chronicles 24:13 So the workmen labored, and the repair work progressed in their hands, and they restored the house of God according to its specifications and strengthened it.

How it’s used In 4 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

5 occurrences in 3 groups

הוּhis 3
לְבֵנָהbrick 1
הּher 1

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

הָיָהto be, to become 1

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

שׂוּםto put, to set, to place 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

3 occurrences in 2 groups

בin/on/with 4
עַלon, upon, over, against 2

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry

Quantity002001001046: מַתְכֹנֶת denotes a fixed measure, proportion, or specified composition, as in Exodus 30:32 and 30:37's prescribed formula for the anointing oil and incense, which no one may replicate in that same fixed proportion, tying the word to a precisely specified quantity or amount.

Word family 5 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

תָּכַן tâkan · H8505 · to measure, to weigh out, to weigh · 18×מַתְכֹנֶתmathkôneth · H4971תְּכוּנָה tᵉkûwnâh · H8498 · dwelling-place, layout · 3×תֹּכֶן tôken · H8506 · number, quantity, volume · 2×תׇּכְנִית toknîyth · H8508 · plan, structure, composition · 2×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4971. mathkoneth or mathkuneth מַתְכֹּ֫נֶת noun feminine measurement, tale, proportion;…

H4971. mathkoneth
or mathkuneth מַתְכֹּ֫נֶת noun feminine measurement, tale, proportion; —
1 construct ׳מ הַלְּבֵנִים Exo 5:3 (J) the tale of bricks (compare 1.תֹּכֶן).
2 suffix בֻּנְתּוֺ- measurement, proportion, of ephah and bath Eze 45:11; of composition of sacred oil Exo 30:32, תָּהּ- Exo 30:37 (P); of temple, its measurement, proportion תּוֺ-2Ch 24:13.
תַּכְּרִיךְ see כרך. תֵּל and compounds see תלל.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Quantity5 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0