Weight
מִשְׁקוֹלStrong’s H4946mishqol (mish-qol)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Mishqol is the Hebrew word usually translated “weight”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it.”
Meaning
- Heaviness, weight
How it's translated
- by weight 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
מִשְׁקוֹל mishqol · weight
heaviness, weight
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “weight” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WEIGHT, noun
Wate. [See Weigh.]
- The quantity of a body, ascertained by the balance; in a philosophical sense, that quality of bodies by which they tend towards the center of the earth in a line perpendicular to its surface.
- A mass of iron, lead, brass or other metal, to be used for ascertaining the weight of other bodies; as a weight of an ounce, a pound, a quarter of a hundred, etc.
- A ponderous mass; something heavy.
- Pressure; burden; as the weight of grief; weight of care; weight of business; weight of government.
All definitions
- Importance; power; influence; efficacy; consequence; moment; impressiveness; as a argument of great weight; a consideration of vast weight The dignity of a mans character adds weight to his words.
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.