H3976

מאזנים

מאזנים

maahzanayam

Masculine noun · From אזן (H239)

From H239; (only in the dual) a pair of scales:—balances.

Outline

scales, balances

Usages

Leviticus 19:36

Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.

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Job 6:2

Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!

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Job 31:6

Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity.

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Psalms 62:9

Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.

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Proverbs 11:1

A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.

Precepts

Ecclesiasticus 33:15

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Proverbs 16:11

A just weight and balance are the LORD’s: all the weights of the bag are his work.

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Proverbs 20:23

Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good.

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Isaiah 40:12

¶ Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

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Isaiah 40:15

Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.

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Jeremiah 32:10

And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed it, and took witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances.

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Ezekiel 5:1

And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife, take thee a barber’s razor, and cause it to pass upon thine head and upon thy beard: then take thee balances to weigh, and divide the hair.

Breakdown

Ezekiel's hair represents the nation of Israel: A third will be killed with the sword, a third is going to be burned down and the last third will be scattered. This verse cannot be used to justify trimming beards or lining up your face (Leviticus 19:27, Ezekiel 44:20)

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Ezekiel 45:10

Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.

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Hosea 12:7

¶ He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.

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Amos 8:5

Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?

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Micah 6:11

Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?

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