Balance
מֹאזֵןStrong’s H3976mozen (mo-zen)
Appears in 15 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mozen is the Hebrew word usually translated “balances of”, “scales of” and “balances”. It appears in 15 verses of the Old Testament.
“Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.”
Meaning
- Scales, balances
How it's translated
- balances of 3
- scales of 3
- in balances 2
- in balances of 1
- and scales of 1
- and balances of 1
- with scales 1
- scales 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 3
- Job 2
- Isaiah 2
- Ezekiel 2
- Leviticus 1
- Psalms 1
10 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Job 6:2Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
- Job 31:6Let me be weighed in an even balance that God may know mine integrity.
- Psalms 62:9Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.
- Proverbs 11:1A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.
- Proverbs 16:11A just weight and balance are the LORD’s: all the weights of the bag are his work.
- Proverbs 20:23Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good.
Hebrew dictionary
מֹאזֵן mozen · balance
scales, balances Aramaic equivalent: mo.zen (מֹאזֵנְיָא "scale" H3977)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “balance” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BAL'ANCE, noun
[Latin bilanx, bis, twice, and lanz, a dish, the double dish.]
- A pair of scales, for weighing commodities.
- One of the simple powers in mechanics, used for determining the equality or difference of weight in heavy bodies, and consequently their masses or quantity of matter.
- Figuratively, an impartial state of the mind, in deliberating; or a just estimate of the reasons and arguments on
- As balance signifies equal weight, or equality, it is by custom used for the weight or sum necessary to make two unequal weights or sums equal; that which is necessary to bring them to a balance or equipoise.
All definitions and other forms of “balance”
- balance of trade is an equal exportation of domestic productions, and importation of foreign.
- Equipoise, or an equal state of power between nations; as the 'balance of power.'
- Equipoise, or an equal state of the passions.
- That which renders weight or authority equal.
- The part of a clock or watch which regulates the beats.
- In astronomy, a sign in the zodiac, called in Latin Libra, which the sun enters at the equinox in September.
BAL'ANCE, verb transitive
To adjust the weights in the scales of a balance so as to bring them to an equipoise. Hence,
- To weigh reasons; to compare, by estimating the relative force, importance, or value of different things; as, to balance good and evil.
- To regulate different powers, so as to keep them in a state of just proportion; as, to balance Europe, or the powers of Europe.
- To counterpoise; to make of equal weight or force; to make equipollent; as, one species of attraction balances another.
- To settle and adjust, as an account; to find the difference of two accounts, and to pay the balance or difference, and make them equal.
- In seamanship, to contract a sail, by rolling up a small part of it at one corner.
BAL'ANCE, verb intransitive
To have on each side equal weight; to be on a poise.
- To hesitate; to fluctuate between motives which appear of equal force, as a balance plays when poised by equal weights.
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.