Limitless Word
תָּכַןtâkan/taw-kan'/
HebrewH850518 occurrences (KJV)

to balance, i.e. measure out (by weight or dimension); figuratively, arrange, equalize, through the idea of levelling (ment. estimate, test)

KJV renders it: bear up, direct, be (un-)equal, mete, ponder, tell, weigh.

Where it appears(showing the first 13 of 18)

  • 1 Sam 2:3“Don’t keep talking so exceedingly proudly. Don’t let arrogance come out of your mouth, For Yahweh is a God of knowledge. By him actions are weighed.
  • 2 Kgs 12:11They gave the money that was weighed out into the hands of those who did the work, who had the oversight of Yahweh’s house; and they paid it out to the carpenters and the builders, who worked on Yahweh’s house,
  • Job 28:25He establishes the force of the wind. Yes, he measures out the waters by measure.
  • Ps 75:3The earth and all its inhabitants quake. I firmly hold its pillars. Selah.
  • Prov 16:2All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but Yahweh weighs the motives.
  • Prov 21:2Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but Yahweh weighs the hearts.
  • Prov 24:12If you say, “Behold, we didn’t know this”; doesn’t he who weighs the hearts consider it? He who keeps your soul, doesn’t he know it? Shall he not render to every man according to his work?
  • 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 40:13Who has directed Yahweh’s Spirit, or has taught him as his counselor?
  • Ezek 18:25“Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not equal.’ Hear now, house of Israel: Is my way not equal? Aren’t your ways unequal?
  • Ezek 18:29Yet the house of Israel says, ‘The way of the Lord is not fair.’ House of Israel, aren’t my ways fair? Aren’t your ways unfair?
  • Ezek 33:17Yet the children of your people say, The way of the Lord is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal.
  • Ezek 33:20Yet you say, The way of the Lord is not equal. House of Israel, I will judge every one of you after his ways.

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.