Words the Bible translates as scales
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 3 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- zugosζυγόςa pair of scales: the balance beam from which two weighing pans hang, used to measure out goods by weight
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- a yoke: the wooden bar laid across the neck to bind someone to a load or a master, and so a picture of being placed under an authority, from crushing servitude to willing service
- mozenמֹאזֵןa pair of scales; the balance used to weigh something
- qasqesetקַשְׂקֶשֶׂתa scale: one of the small hard plates that overlap to cover a fish or a river beast, and the same shape in metal on a soldier's armored coat.
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