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title: מִשְׁקָל — weight · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מִשְׁקָל (4948), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 49 times: weight. BDB 1906: n.m. id. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מִשְׁקָל

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«מִשְׁקָל» in the Tanakh dictionary: **weight** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 49 times · **Key:** 4948 · **BDB:** מִשְׁקָל

### Glosses

weight (39); the.weight (8); \[the\].weight (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

weight [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4948/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. id. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4948/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. id.;—abs. מ׳ 1 K 25:16 +; cstr. מִשְׁקַל Ju 8:26 +; sf. מִשְׁקָלוֹ Gn 24:22 +, etc.;—weight Gn 24:22(×2) (J), Jos 7:21 (JE), Ju 8:26; 1 S 17:5; 2 S 12:30; 21:16a (v 16b read שֶׁקֶל with 𝔊 \[v. especially 𝔊L\] We Dr and mod.), 1 K 7:47; 10:14; Nu 7:13 + 11 times Nu 7 (P), 7 times Chr; of wind Jb 28:25; בְּמִשְׁקָלוֹ Gn 43:21 (J) in its (full) weight, cf. מא̇זְנֵי מ׳ Ez 5:1; בַּמּ׳ by weight Lv 26:26; 1 Ch 28:14a, 18; בְּמ׳ id. Ez 4:16 (of bread), Ezr 8:34; 1 Ch 28:14b, 15(×2), 17(×2); בַּמּ׳ Lv 19:35 in respect to weight, cf. מ׳ 1 Ch 28:16 as to weight, in weight; לֹא־הָיָה מ׳ (i.e. there was too much to be weighed) 2 K 25:16 = Je 52:20, אֵין מ׳ 1 Ch 22:3, 14.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 25 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מִשְׁקָל» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4948/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 28:25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.28.25/)

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לַעֲשׂ֣וֹת לָר֣וּחַ מִשְׁקָ֑ל וּ֝מַ֗יִם תִּכֵּ֥ן בְּמִדָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* to make for the wind weight and.\[the\] waters he.has.measured with a.measure

*JPS 1917:* When He maketh a weight for the wind, and meteth out the waters by measure.

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[1 Chronicles 21:25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.21.25/)

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וַיִּתֵּ֥ן דָּוִ֛יד לְאָרְנָ֖ן בַּמָּק֑וֹם שִׁקְלֵ֣י זָהָ֔ב מִשְׁקָ֖ל שֵׁ֥שׁ מֵאֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* and he.gave David to Ornan for the place shekels of.gold weight six hundred(s)

*JPS 1917:* So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight.

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