Swaying
מִפְלָשׂStrong’s H4657miphlas (miph-la-s)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Miphlas is the Hebrew word usually translated “balancing of”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him which is perfect in knowledge?”
Meaning
- Swaying, poising, balancing
How it's translated
- balancing of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
מִפְלָשׂ miphlas · swaying
swaying, poising, balancing
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “swaying” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SWA'YING, participle present
tense Wielding; causing to lean; biasing; ruling.
All definitions and other forms of “swaying”
SWA'YING, noun
swaying of the back, among beasts, is a kind of lumbago, caused by a fall or by being overloaded.
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.