Word

מֹאזֵן

môʼzên · H3976 · Hebrew · 15 occurrences

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Balance scalesCommerce26 verses

Meanings

balance, scales

Contraption consisting of rod held by a cord in the middle and with pans attached to both ends; used for weighing objects; sometimes used figuratively in expressions describing people's status or integrity or the seriousness of a situation in terms of weight

Examples
Leviticus 19:36 ‘You shall have accurate balances, accurate weights, an accurate ephah, and an accurate hin; I am the LORD your God, who brought you out from the land of Egypt.
Job 6:2 “Oh if only my grief were actually weighed And laid in the balances together with my disaster!
Job 31:6 Let Him weigh me with accurate scales, And let God know my integrity.

How it’s used In 6 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

10 occurrences in 5 groups

מִרְמָהfalsehood 4
צֶדֶקrighteousness, justice 3
מִשְׁפָּטjustice, judgment, ordinance 1
מִשְׁקָלweight 1
רֶשַׁעwicked deeds 1

What it doesIt is the subject

2 occurrences in 1 groups

הָיָהto be, to become 2

What is done to itIt is the object

2 occurrences in 2 groups

לָקַחto take, to receive 1
עָוַתto make crooked 1

What it is said to bePredicate

4 occurrences in 4 groups

טוֹבgood 1
יָדhand, power 1
יְהֹוָהthe LORD, YHWH 1
תּוֹעֵבַהabomination, detestable thing 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

6 occurrences in 1 groups

בin/on/with 9

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

שַׁחַקcloud 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 1 word

ζυγός zygós · G2218 · yoke, balance scale: Greek ζυγός serves as the standard LXX rendering of Hebrew מֹאזֵן, both denoting the physical weighing instrument (balance/scales), with ζυγός carrying additional metaphorical extensions to servitude/obligation that מֹאזֵן does not independently encode.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Tools001003001001017: מֹאזֵן denotes balances or scales, as in Leviticus 19:36's command to have "just balances," placing it among crafted tools used for measurement.

Word family 6 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

אָזַן ʼâzan · H238 · to listen, to pay attention · 41×אֹזֶן ʼôzen · H241 · ear · 187×מֹאזֵןmôʼzên · H3976אָזַן ʼâzan · H239 · to listen, to pay attention · 1×אָזֵן ʼâzên · H240 · gear, utensils, equipment · 1×מֹאזֵן môʼzên · H3977 · balances · 1×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3976. mozen [מאזן] noun [masculine] dual balances, scales (Arabic , Aramaic (Nasar.) ) —…

H3976. mozen
[מאזן] noun [masculine] dual balances, scales (Arabic , Aramaic (Nasar.) ) — מאֹזְנַיִם (נָֿ֑יִם) Isa 40:15 Isa 40:4t.; construct מאֹזְנֵי Lev 19:36 Lev 19:9t. — balances, for weighing money Jer 32:10 בְּמ הַכֶּסֶף ׳וָאֶשְׁקֹל; hair Eze 5:1 (׳מ מִשְׁקָל); מ ׳שַׁחַק) Isa 40:15 dust of bal., simile of insignificance of nations before ׳י; figurative, calamity Job 6:2; men Psa 62:10; hills Isa 40:12 (בְּמ וּגְבָעוֺת ׳הָרִים בַּמֶּלֶס שָׁקַל); ׳א צֶדֶק Lev 19:36 (|| צ ׳הִין צ, ׳אֵיפַת ׳אַבְנֵיצֿ,), Eze 45:10 (|| ׳בַּתצֿ ׳אֵיפַתצֿ,) compare Pro 16:11 (וּמ ׳מֶּלֶס מִשְׁמָּט); figurative Job 31:6 צֶדֶק בְּמ ׳יִשְׁקְלֵנִי; opposed to ׳מ מִרְמָה Pro 11:1 (|| שְׁלֵמָה אֶבֶן); Pro 20:23 (|| וָאָ֑בֶן אֶבֶן) Amo 8:5 (|| שֶׁקֶל וּלְהַגְדִּיל אֵיפָה לְהַקְטִין) Hos 12:8; ׳מ רֶשַׁע Mic 6:11 (|| מִרְמָה אַבְנֵי).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Tools15 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0