μέτρῳ [4 verses] (noun sg neut dat) "Measure" is metron, which means "that by which anything is measured", "measure", "rule", "measure of content", "any space of measurable length", "limit," and "due measure." -- The word translated as "measure" means any measurement scale, not a specific scale. We use the word "standard" to capture the general idea of a measurement. However, this is another noun form of the following verb, so only the term "measure" worked in English.