Cord
קַוStrong’s H6957qav
Appears in 15 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Qav is the Hebrew word usually translated “measuring-line”, “line” and “measuring-line of”. It appears in 15 verses of the Old Testament.
“Therefore thus saith the LORD; I am returned to Jerusalem with mercies: my house shall be built in it, saith the LORD of hosts, and a line shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem.”
Meaning
- Line, measuring-line
- (BDB) onomatapoetic mimicry of Isaiah's words, perhaps senseless
- Cord, line, measuring-linecord · measuring-line
How it's translated
- and a measuring-line 4
- a measuring-line 4
- line 4
- to line 4
- measuring-line of 1
- line their 1
- a measuring-line of 1
- by the measuring-line 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 6
- 1 Kings 1
- 2 Kings 1
- 2 Chronicles 1
- Job 1
- Psalms 1
10 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Kings 7:23And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.
- 2 Kings 21:13And 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.
- 2 Chronicles 4:2Also he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and five cubits the height thereof; and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.
- Job 38:5Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?
- Psalms 19:4Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,
- Isaiah 28:10For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
Hebrew dictionary
קַו qav · cord
1) line, measuring-line 2) (BDB) onomatapoetic mimicry of Isaiah's words, perhaps senseless
קַו qav · line
1) cord, line, measuring-line 1a) cord 1b) measuring-line
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “cord” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CORD, noun
[Latin Gr. According to the Welsh, this word signifies a twist, from cor, the root of chorus.]
- A string, or small rope, composed of several strands twisted together. Joshua 2:15
- A quantity of wood, or other material, originally measured with a cord or line.
- In scripture, the cords of the wicked are the snares with which they catch the unwary. Psalms 129:4
All definitions and other forms of “cord”
CORD, verb transitive
- To bind with a cord or rope; to fasten with cords.
- To pile wood or other material for measurement and sale by the cord
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.