מִשְׁקֶלֶת
mishqeleth · H4949 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Thing
- Plumb lineBuilders5 verses
Meanings
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plumb line
A weight suspended on the end of a string, used by builders to determine whether a wall was straight or not; often used in a figurative sense in the context of moral and ethical standards
ExamplesIsaiah 28:17 “I will make justice the measuring line And righteousness the level; Then hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, And the waters will overflow the secret place.
How it’s used In 3 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
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בַּיִתhouse, household 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- נָטָהto stretch out, to incline 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לto/for 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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Semantic domains 1 entry
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- מִשְׁקֶלֶת denotes a plummet or plumb line, a tool used to test verticality or exactness, figuratively invoked in passages such as Isaiah 28:17 where justice is laid to the line and righteousness to the plummet.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4949. mishqeleth or mishqoleth [מִשְׁקֶ֫לֶת], מִשְׁקֹ֫לֶת noun feminine levelling…
or mishqoleth [מִשְׁקֶ֫לֶת], מִשְׁקֹ֫לֶת noun feminine levelling instrument, level (for horizontal accuracy); — absoluteמִשְׁקָ֑לֶת Isa 28:17 (figurative of צֶדָקָה;|| קַו); construct קֹ֫לֶת-, figurative, ׳מ אַחְאָב בֵּית 2Ki 21:13.
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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