Definition

proportion (in size, number or ingredients)

Etymology

or מַתְכֻנֶת; from H8505 (תָּכַן) in the transferred sense of measuring;

Word family

• תָּכַן tâkan

How the KJV renders it

• composition
• measure
• state
• tale

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.