Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
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Usage: 1) line, measuring-line 2) (BDB) onomatapoetic mimicry of Isaiah's words, perhaps senseless
qav - meaning, definition, and linked Bible usage across the indexed canon, including Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where this Strong's number appears.
Strong's H6957 קַו קָו (qav) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. qav (kav) (or qav {kawv}) n-m. 1. a cord (as connecting), especially for measuring 2. (figuratively) a rule It has 14 linked Bible usages across 9 books. Visible English usage signals include also, measures, rule, and measured. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
qav (kav) (or qav {kawv}) n-m. 1. a cord (as connecting), especially for measuring 2. (figuratively) a rule 3. (also) a rim, a musical string or accord [from H6960] KJV: line. Root(s): H6960 Compare: H6978, H6961
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H6957. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
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Usage: 1) line, measuring-line 2) (BDB) onomatapoetic mimicry of Isaiah's words, perhaps senseless
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render qav, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
14 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.
And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it, and turning it upside down.
Also he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and five cubits the height thereof; and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.
First 14 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H6957.
And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.
And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it, and turning it upside down.
Also he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and five cubits the height thereof; and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.
Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?
Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,
For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.
And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation shall they dwell therein.
The carpenter stretcheth out his rule; he marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house.
The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.
And when the man that had the line in his hand went forth eastward, he measured a thousand cubits, and he brought me through the waters; the waters were to the ankles.
Therefore thus saith the LORD; I am returned to Jerusalem with mercies: my house shall be built in it, saith the LORD of hosts, and a line shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H6957, grouped by book.
Strong's H6957 is a Hebrew entry for H6957 קַו קָו (qav). qav (kav) (or qav {kawv}) n-m. 1. a cord (as connecting), especially for measuring 2. (figuratively) a rule
This page currently indexes 14 linked usages for Strong's H6957 across 9 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H6957 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as also, measures, rule, and measured. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.