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מִשְׁקֶ֫לֶתStrong’s H4949mishqelet (mish-qe-let)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mishqelet is the Hebrew word usually translated “leveling tool of” and “leveling tool”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it, and turning it upside down.”
Meaning
- Level, levelling tool or instrument, plummet
How it's translated
- leveling tool of 1
- a leveling tool 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Kings 1
- Isaiah 1
2 books in all.
Hebrew dictionary
מִשְׁקֶ֫לֶת mishqelet · level
level, levelling tool or instrument, plummet
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “level” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LEV'EL, adjective
[Eng. sleek. Latin libella, libra, belong to the root.]
- Horizontal; coinciding with the plane of the horizon.
- Even; flat; not having one part higher than another; not ascending or descending; as a level plain or field; level ground; a level floor or pavement.
- Even with any thing else; of the same height; on the same line or plane.
- Equal in rank or degree; having no degree of superiority.
All definitions and other forms of “level”
LEV'EL, verb transitive
- To make horizontal.
- To make even; to reduce or remove inequalities of surface in any thing; as, to level a road or walk.
- To reduce or bring to the same height with something else.
- To lay flat; to reduce to an even surface or plain.
- To reduce to equality of condition, state or degree; as, to level all ranks and degrees of men.
- To point, in taking aim; to elevate or depress so as to direct a missile weapon to an object; to aim; as, to level a cannon or musket.
- To aim; to direct; as severe remarks leveled at the vices and follies of the age.
- To suit; to proportion; as, to level observations to the capacity of children.
LEV'EL, verb intransitive
- To accord; to agree; to suit. [Little used.]
- To aim at; to point a gun or an arrow to the mark.
- To aim at; to direct the view or purpose.
- To be aimed; to be in the same direction with the mark.
- To aim; to make attempts.
- To conjecture; to attempt to guess. [Not used.]
LEV'EL, noun
- A horizontal line, or a plane; a surface without inequalities.
- Rate; standard; usual elevation; customary height; as the ordinary level of the world.
- Equal elevation with something else; a state of equality.
- The line of direction in which a missile weapon is aimed.
- An instrument in mechanics by which to find or draw a horizontal line, as in setting buildings, or in making canals and drains.
- Rule; plan; scheme: borrowed from the mechanic's level
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.