מֹאזֵן
môʼzên · H3977 · Aramaic · 1 occurrence
Thing
- Balance scalesCommerce26 verses
Meanings
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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
ExamplesDaniel 5:27 “‘TEKEL’—you have been weighed on the scales and found deficient.
How it’s used In 1 role
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the word studied the word it goes with
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 2
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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Near synonyms 1 word
- פֶּלֶס peleç · H6425 · balance, scales
- Hebrew synonym for weighing scales; both מֹאזֵן and פֶּלֶס denote instruments for weighing, with פֶּלֶס appearing in contexts of just measurement (e.g., Prov 16:11, Isa 40:12).
In the other Testament 1 word
- ζυγός zygós · G2218 · yoke, balance scale
- Direct Greek translation equivalent for Hebrew מֹאזֵן (balances/scales); both refer to the weighing instrument with two pans suspended from a beam.
Semantic domains 1 entry
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- Daniel 5:27 gives the interpretation of the writing, “TEKEL — you have been weighed on the scales and found deficient.”
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3977. mozanya מאֹזַנְיָא (Baer Gi Str) noun masculine emphatic scale, balance (compare…
מאֹזַנְיָא (Baer Gi Str) noun masculine emphatic scale, balance (compare also Mandean מוזאניא NöM 148, Egyptian Aramaic מוזנא S-CG 24, Christian-Palestinian Aramaic SchulthLex. 5 NöBSW 56 JacobZAW xxil (1902), 90); — Dan 5:27 (van d. H. dual emphatic מאֹזְנַיָּא, see K§ 51, 1, Anm. M33*).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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
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