Words the Bible translates as measuring line
One word in the Bible is rendered “measuring line”, listed here with what it actually means.
- qavקַוa measuring line: the taut cord a builder or surveyor stretches to mark out, size up, or apportion something
+2 more meanings
- mocking nonsense syllables ("qav"): the babble drunken leaders throw at the prophet, which God then throws back as the sound of judgment
- a disputed word in Psalm 19:4: possibly the sound the heavens send out across the earth, though the text may instead mean "line" or be a copying slip for "voice"
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