Words the Bible translates as measuring rod
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 2 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- qanehקָנֶהa measuring rod: a fixed-length reed used as a surveyor's measuring tool, and the length itself as a unit.
+3 more meanings
- a reed or stalk: the tall, hollow, jointed plant that grows in water, and any single cane-like stem.
- the shaft and branches of the golden lampstand in the tabernacle.
- the upper arm bone, the long bone running from shoulder to elbow.
- kalamosκάλαμοςa reed: the tall marsh cane, and by extension the everyday things cut from its stalk: a light staff, a writing pen, or a measuring rod
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