מֹאזֵןmôʼzên/mo-zane'/
HebrewH397615 occurrences (KJV)
(only in the dual) a pair of scales
KJV renders it: balances.
Where it appears
- Lev 19:36You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin. I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
- Job 6:2“Oh that my anguish were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!
- Job 31:6(let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity);
- Ps 62:9Surely men of low degree are just a breath, and men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than a breath.
- Prov 11:1A false balance is an abomination to Yahweh, but accurate weights are his delight.
- Prov 16:11Honest balances and scales are Yahweh’s; all the weights in the bag are his work.
- Prov 20:23Yahweh detests differing weights, and dishonest scales are not pleasing.
- Isa 40:12Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and marked off the sky with his span, and calculated the dust of the earth in a measuring basket, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
- Isa 40:15Behold, the nations are like a drop in a bucket, and are regarded as a speck of dust on a balance. Behold, he lifts up the islands like a very little thing.
- Jer 32:10I signed the deed, sealed it, called witnesses, and weighed the money in the balances to him.
- Ezek 5:1“You, son of man, take a sharp sword. You shall take it as a barber’s razor to yourself, and shall cause it to pass over your head and over your beard. Then take balances to weigh and divide the hair.
- Ezek 45:10You shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
- Hos 12:7A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand. He loves to defraud.
- Amos 8:5Saying, ‘When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel large, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;
- Mic 6:11Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, and with a bag of deceitful weights?
Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.