Plumbline
אֲנָךְStrong’s H0594anakh (a-nakh)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Anakh is the Hebrew word usually translated “tin”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Thus he shewed me: and, behold, the LORD stood upon a wall made by a plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand.”
Meaning
- Plummet, plumb, lead-weight
How it's translated
- tin 4
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Amos 2
1 book in all.
Hebrew dictionary
אֲנָךְ anakh · plumbline
plummet, plumb, lead-weight
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “plumbline” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PLUMB-LINE, noun
plum'-line. A line perpendicular to the plane of the horizon; or a line directed to the center of gravity in the earth.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.