Hebrew noun (masculine) · H3976
מֹאזֵן
mozenmo-zane'
balance
15 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: môʼzên
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3976is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 10 of 39Old Testament books
- 12spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3976
(only in the dual) a pair of scales
The King James renders it: balances.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
mozen is rendered "balance". It stands 15 times in the Hebrew text, across ten books.
- Three of the uses stand in Proverbs, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Leviticus 19:36You shall maintain honest scales and weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
- The Greek text spells it twelve different ways.
The first use
You shall maintain honest scales and weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
Leviticus 19:36מֹ֧אזְנֵי
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- balances of3
- scales of3
- in balances2
- and balances of1
- and scales of1
- in balances of1
- on scales1
- scales1
- with balances of1
- with scales1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| מֹאזֵן | mozen | scale | Uses1 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 15, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
12 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- מֹאזְנֵ֥י3
- בְּמֹאזְנָֽיִם׃2
- בְּמֹ֣אזְנֵי1
- בְמֹאזְנֵי־1
- בְּמֹאזְנַ֥יִם1
- בְּֽמֹאזְנַ֥יִם1
- וּמֹאזְנֵ֣י1
- וּמֹאזְנֵ֖י1
- מֹ֧אזְנֵי1
- מֹאזְנֵ֣י1
- מֹֽאזְנֵי־1
- מֹאזְנַ֖יִם1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine dual · in construct (“…of”)6HNcmdc
- preposition + noun · masculine dual4HR/Ncmda
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine dual · in construct (“…of”)2HC/Ncmdc
- preposition + noun · masculine dual · in construct (“…of”)2HR/Ncmdc
- noun · masculine dual1HNcmda
Leviticus
one use
You shall maintain honest scales and weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
- מֹ֧אזְנֵיmozneinoun · masculine dual · in construct (“…of”)tagged: balances of
Job
two uses
“If only my grief could be weighed and placed with my calamity on the scales.
- בְּֽמֹאזְנַ֥יִםbemozenayimpreposition + noun · masculine dualtagged: in balances
let God weigh me with honest scales, that He may know my integrity.
- בְמֹאזְנֵי־vemozenei-preposition + noun · masculine dual · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in balances of
Psalms
one use
Lowborn men are but a vapor, the exalted but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.
- בְּמֹאזְנַ֥יִםbemozenayimpreposition + noun · masculine dualtagged: in balances
Proverbs
three uses
Dishonest scales are an abomination to the LORD, but an accurate weight is His delight.
- מֹאזְנֵ֣יmozneinoun · masculine dual · in construct (“…of”)tagged: scales of
Honest scales and balances are from the LORD; all the weights in the bag are His concern.
- וּמֹאזְנֵ֣יumozneiconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine dual · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and scales of
Unequal weights are detestable to the LORD, and dishonest scales are no good.
- וּמֹאזְנֵ֖יumozneiconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine dual · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and balances of
Isaiah
two uses
Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or marked off the heavens with the span of his hand? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on a scale and the hills with a balance?
- בְּמֹאזְנָֽיִם׃bemozenayimpreposition + noun · masculine dualtagged: with scales
Surely the nations are like a drop in a bucket; they are considered a speck of dust on the scales; He lifts up the islands like fine dust.
- מֹאזְנַ֖יִםmoznayimnoun · masculine dualtagged: scales
Jeremiah
one use
I signed and sealed the deed, called in witnesses, and weighed out the silver on the scales.
- בְּמֹאזְנָֽיִם׃bemozenayimpreposition + noun · masculine dualtagged: on scales
Ezekiel
two uses
“As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword, use it as a barber’s razor, and shave your head and beard. Then take a set of scales and divide the hair.
- מֹאזְנֵ֥יmozneinoun · masculine dual · in construct (“…of”)tagged: scales of
You must use honest scales, a just ephah, and a just bath.
- מֹֽאזְנֵי־mozenei-noun · masculine dual · in construct (“…of”)tagged: balances of
Hosea
one use
A merchant loves to defraud with dishonest scales in his hands.
- מֹאזְנֵ֥יmozneinoun · masculine dual · in construct (“…of”)tagged: scales of
Amos
one use
asking, “When will the New Moon be over, that we may sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, that we may market wheat? Let us reduce the ephah and increase the shekel; let us cheat with dishonest scales.
- מֹאזְנֵ֥יmozneinoun · masculine dual · in construct (“…of”)tagged: balances of
Micah
one use
Can I excuse dishonest scales or bags of false weights?
- בְּמֹ֣אזְנֵיbemozeneipreposition + noun · masculine dual · in construct (“…of”)tagged: with balances of
The letters
Gematria 98· 748 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.