Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (v.) To give out; to apportion. 2. (v. t. & i.) To meet. 3. (v. i. & t.) To dream; also impersonally; as, me mette, I dreamed. 4. (v.) To find the quantity, dimensions, or capacity of, by any rule or standard; to measure. 5. (v. i.) To measure. 6. (n.) Measure; limit; boundary; -- used chiefly in the plural, and in the phrase metes and bounds. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia METE met (madhadh): "To measure," either with a utensil of dry measure, as in Exodus 16:18, or to measure with a line or measure of length, as in Psalm 60:6; Psalm 108:7 Isaiah 40:12. In Isaiah 18:2, 7 it is the rendering of qaw qaw, literally, "line-line" i.e. measuring line, referring to the Ethiopians as a nation that measured off other peoples for destruction and trod them down, as in the Revised Version (British and American). It is regarded by some as signifying strength, being cognate with the Arabic kawi, "strong." For mete of Matthew 7:2 and parallel passages in Mark 4:24 Luke 6:38, see MEASURE. H. Porter

Multi-Version Concordance Mete (7 Occurrences) Matthew 7:2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. (KJV WEY ASV DBY) Mark 4:24 And he said unto them, Take heed what ye hear: with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you: and unto you that hear shall more be given. (KJV ASV DBY) Luke 6:38 Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again. (KJV ASV DBY) Exodus 16:18 And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating. (KJV JPS) Psalms 58:2 No, in your heart you plot injustice. You measure out the violence of your hands in the earth. (See NIV) Psalms 60:6 God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth. (KJV JPS ASV DBY) Psalms 108:7 God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth. (KJV JPS ASV DBY)