מִשְׁקָל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4948

weight — used 49 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

Meaning

OpenScriptures lexical index

weight tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִשְׁקָל: n.m. id. tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.m. id.;—abs. מ׳ 1 K 25:16 +; cstr. מִשְׁקַל Ju 8:26 +; sf. מִשְׁקָלוֹ Gn 24:22 +, etc.;—weight Gn 24:22(×2) (J), Jos 7:21 (JE), Ju 8:26; 1 S 17:5; 2 S 12:30; 21:16a (v 16b read שֶׁקֶל with 𝔊 [v. especially 𝔊L] We Dr and mod.), 1 K 7:47; 10:14; Nu 7:13 + 11 times Nu 7 (P), 7 times Chr; of wind Jb 28:25; בְּמִשְׁקָלוֹ Gn 43:21 (J) in its (full) weight, cf. מא̇זְנֵי מ׳ Ez 5:1; בַּמּ׳ by weight Lv 26:26; 1 Ch 28:14a, 18; בְּמ׳ id. Ez 4:16 (of bread), Ezr 8:34; 1 Ch 28:14b, 15(×2), 17(×2); בַּמּ׳ Lv 19:35 in respect to weight, cf. מ׳ 1 Ch 28:16 as to weight, in weight; לֹא־הָיָה מ׳ (i.e. there was too much to be weighed) 2 K 25:16 = Je 52:20, אֵין מ׳ 1 Ch 22:3, 14.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 25 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: weight (39); the weight (8); [the] weight (1).

In the verses

Job 28:25 · tree →

לַעֲשׂ֣וֹת לָר֣וּחַ מִשְׁקָ֑ל וּ֝מַ֗יִם תִּכֵּ֥ן בְּמִדָּֽה׃

Word for word: to make for the wind weight and.[the] waters he.has.measured with a.measure

JPS 1917: When He maketh a weight for the wind, and meteth out the waters by measure.

1 Chronicles 21:25 · tree →

וַיִּתֵּ֥ן דָּוִ֛יד לְאָרְנָ֖ן בַּמָּק֑וֹם שִׁקְלֵ֣י זָהָ֔ב מִשְׁקָ֖ל שֵׁ֥שׁ מֵאֽוֹת׃

Word for word: and he.gave David to Ornan for the place shekels of.gold weight six hundred(s)

JPS 1917: So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight.

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Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).

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