Word Study · Strong's H6425 · Hebrew
פֶּלֶס
peles
peh'-les
Strong's 1890 spelling: peleç
“a balance”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
a balance
Rendered in the KJV as
scales, weight.
- 2occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 2 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 2inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 2 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 2
- בַּפֶּ֙לֶס֙1
- פֶּ֤לֶס׀1
How it is rendered · 2
- a balance1
- with the balance1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 2
- noun · masculine singular1
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
- HNcmsa · 1
- HRd/Ncmsa · 1
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