matchonet · proportion, formula

What it means

matchonet (מַתְכֹנֶת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “proportion, formula”.

A fixed amount, an exact measure; also a set quantity.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A fixed proportion; the share allotted.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• formula ×2
• measure ×2
• quota ×1

Where it appears

• Exodus×3
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Ezekiel×1

• Exodus 5:8

  But the quota of bricks that they were making before you shall impose on them; you shall not reduce any of it, for they are lazy; that is why they cry out, saying, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to our Elohim.’

• Exodus 30:32

  On the flesh of a human being it shall not be poured, and with its formula you shall not make any like it; it is holy; holy it shall be to you.

• Exodus 30:37

  And the incense that you shall make, with its formula you shall not make any for yourselves; it shall be holy to you for YHWH.

• 2 Chronicles 24:13

  Those doing the work worked, and the restoration of the work advanced in their hand; they set up the house of Elohim according to its measure and strengthened it.

• Ezekiel 45:11

  The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, so that the bath contains a tenth of a homer, and the ephah a tenth of a homer; according to the homer shall be its measure.