mad · garment, measure

What it means

mad (מַד) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “garment, measure”.

Garment. In other passages, measure.

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. Clothing one wears, or rugs to sit on.
2. What is measured, the size or the share that falls to someone.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• garment ×6
• clothes ×2
• measure ×1
• measures ×1
• rugs ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Leviticus×1
• Judges×2
• 1 Samuel×4
• 2 Samuel×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×1
• Jeremiah×1

• Leviticus 6:10

  The priest shall put on his linen garment, and he shall put on linen undergarments on his flesh; and he shall take up the ashes left when the fire has consumed the burnt offering on the altar, and put them beside the altar.

• Judges 3:16

  Ehud made for himself a sword; it had two edges, a cubit in length, and he strapped it under his clothes, on his right thigh.

• Judges 5:10

  You who ride white donkeys, who sit on rugs, and who walk on the road, speak of it!

• 1 Samuel 4:12

  And a man of Benjamin ran from the battle line and came to Shiloh that day, with his clothes torn and earth on his head.

• 1 Samuel 17:38

  Saul clothed David with his garment, and put a helmet of bronze on his head, and clothed him with a coat of armor.

• 1 Samuel 17:39

  David fastened his sword over his garment and tried to walk, for he had not tested it. And David said to Saul, “I cannot walk in these, for I have not tested them.” And David removed them from himself.

• 1 Samuel 18:4

  Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was on him and gave it to David, and his garment, and even his sword, and even his bow, and even his belt.

• 2 Samuel 20:8

  They were at the great stone that is in Gibeon, and Amasa came before them. Joab was girded with the garment he wore, and over it was a belt with a sword fastened on his waist in its sheath; and as he went out, it fell out.

• Job 11:9

  Longer than the earth is its measure, and broader than the sea.

• Psalms 109:18

  And he clothed himself with cursing as with his garment, and it entered like water into his inner being, and like oil into his bones.

• Jeremiah 13:25

  This is your lot, the portion of your measures from me, declares YHWH, because you forgot me and trusted in falsehood.