Weight
מִשְׁקָלStrong’s H4948mishqal (mish-qal)
Appears in 42 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mishqal is the Hebrew word usually translated “weight its”, “weight” and “weight of”. It appears in 42 verses of the Old Testament.
“And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold;”
Meaning
- Heaviness, weight
How it's translated
- weight its 14
- by weight 8
- weight of 8
- weight 8
- and weight of 2
- and weight 2
- weight their 1
- in weight its 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 12
- 1 Chronicles 9
- 2 Chronicles 3
- Genesis 2
- Leviticus 2
- 2 Samuel 2
15 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 43:21And it came to pass, when we came to the inn, that we opened our sacks, and, behold, every man’s money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight: and we have brought it again in our hand.
- Leviticus 19:35Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.
- Leviticus 26:26And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.
- Numbers 7:13And his offering was one silver charger, the weight thereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them were full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
- Numbers 7:19He offered for his offering one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
- Numbers 7:25His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
All 42 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
מִשְׁקָל mishqal · 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.