Bible Dictionary: Measures:

◄ Measures: (Drinking Water, by Measure) of Severe Famine ►

Torrey's Topical Textbook

Ezekiel 4:11,16
You shall drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time to time shall you drink.
Torrey's Topical Textbook

Library

Of the Discipline of the Church, and Its Principal Use in Censures ...
... is urged, the rigour now exceeds due measure. ... by rough, harsh, and imperious measures,
but more ... violence to nature, abstained from drinking water, and caused ...
/.../the institutes of the christian religion/chapter 12 of the discipline.htm

Scriptural Poems; Being Several Portions of Scripture Digested ...
... she told, and said, He these six measures full of ... place, Within the jaw, from whence
did water pass; Whereof ... I press'd into the cup for Pharaoh's drinking. ...
/.../scriptural poems being several portions.htm

The Transformation of Rome from a Pagan into a Christian City.
... of body in baths; it is not water but our ... to the hall and its customers were two
measures for wine ... Many drinking-cups used on these occasions have been found in ...
/.../lanciani/pagan and christian rome/chapter i the transformation of.htm

Conclusion --Repent Ye, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at Hand.
... along the platform to drink some water from a ... to speak of the necessity of such measures,
the soldiers ... road the recruits have been drinking without intermission ...
/.../the kingdom of god is within you/chapter xii conclusionrepent ye for.htm

The Holy City; Or, the New Jerusalem:
... doubting but in a little time more large measures of the ... Besides, I am for drinking
water out of my own cistern;[4 ... with me had a golden reed to measure the city ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/the holy city or the.htm

Syria at the Beginning of the Egyptian Conquest
... the fort, where it serves as a drinking trough for ... reach them here prepared them
in some measure for what ... wherever, in fact, the presence of water made culture ...
/.../chapter iisyria at the beginning.htm

Life and Works of Rufinus with Jerome's Apology Against Rufinus.
... it is written: "From whom all the body, fitly framed and knit together through that
which every joint supplieth according to the working in due measure of each ...
/.../various/life and works of rufinus with jeromes apology against rufinus /

A Discourse
... royal palace; 'but she was beyond measure astonished at ... evident by the difference
of their measures and dimensions. ... shall bear up the truth above water all the ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/a discourse.htm

The Last Days of the Old Eastern World
... The measures which he adopted had long after his ... of the Thessalians; as a precautionary
measure 10,000 hoplites ... Want of water at length obliged the Greeks to ...
/.../chapter iithe last days of 2.htm

Introductory Notice Respecting Tauler's Life and Times
... their proper place,"to the fish the water, to the ... it necessary to take such strong
measures during the ... jovial of boon-companions at the drinking-bouts of the ...
/.../introductory notice respecting taulers life.htm

Subtopics

Measures

Measures of Length: Cubit

Measures of Length: Fathom

Measures of Length: Furlong

Measures of Length: Handbreadth

Measures of Length: Mile

Measures of Length: Span

Measures of Liquids and Solids: Bath or Ephah

Measures of Liquids and Solids: Cab

Measures of Liquids and Solids: Firkin

Measures of Liquids and Solids: Hin