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# פֶּלֶס

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6425

**balance** — used 2 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

balance [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6425/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פֶּ֫לֶס: balance, scale [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6425/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] balance, scale;—lit. Pr 16:11, fig. Is 40:12 (in both ‖ מֹאזְנַיִם).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 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, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: scale\[s\] (2).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 16:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.16.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.16.11/#tree)

פֶּ֤לֶס ׀ וּמֹאזְנֵ֣י מִ֭שְׁפָּט לַֽיהוָ֑ה מַ֝עֲשֵׂ֗הוּ כָּל־אַבְנֵי־כִֽיס׃

*Word for word:* scale\[s\] and balances of.justice \[belong\].to Yahweh work \[are\].his all \[the\].weights of.\[the\].bag

*JPS 1917:* A just balance and scales are the LORD'S; all the weights of the bag are His work.

[Isaiah 40:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.40.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.40.12/#tree)

מִֽי־מָדַ֨ד בְּשָׁעֳל֜וֹ מַ֗יִם וְשָׁמַ֙יִם֙ בַּזֶּ֣רֶת תִּכֵּ֔ן וְכָ֥ל בַּשָּׁלִ֖שׁ עֲפַ֣ר הָאָ֑רֶץ וְשָׁקַ֤ל בַּפֶּ֙לֶס֙ הָרִ֔ים וּגְבָע֖וֹת בְּמֹאזְנָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* who? has.he.measured in the.hollow of.his.hand \[the\].waters and.\[the\] heavens with (the) span has.he.marked.off? and has.he.contained? in.(the) third of.a.measure the.dust of the.earth and has.he.weighed? with (the) scale\[s\] mountains and hills with balances

*JPS 1917:* 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?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6425.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6425/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

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).