mozen · scales

What it means

mozen (מֹאזֵן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “scales”.

A pair of scales.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. An instrument with two pans for weighing goods, silver or grain.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• scales ×12
• balance ×2
• balances ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Leviticus×1
• Job×2
• Psalms×1
• Proverbs×3
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×1
• Ezekiel×2
• Hosea×1
• Amos×1
• Micah×1

• Leviticus 19:36

  You shall have just scales, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin. I am YHWH your Elohim, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

• Job 6:2

  “If only my vexation were truly weighed, and my calamity lifted onto the scales together.

• Job 31:6

  let him weigh me in scales of righteousness, and let Eloah know my integrity.

• Psalms 62:9

  Only vapor are human beings, a lie are the sons of man; on going up in the scales, they are together lighter than vapor.

• Proverbs 11:1

  Scales of deceit are an abomination to YHWH, but a full weight is his pleasure.

• Proverbs 16:11

  The balance and the scales of justice are YHWH’s; his work are all the stones of the bag.

• Proverbs 20:23

  An abomination to YHWH are weight and weight, and scales of deceit are not good.

• Isaiah 40:12

  Who has measured in the hollow of his hand the waters, and the heavens with the span gauged, and held in a measure the dust of the earth, and weighed with the scale the mountains and the hills with a balance?

• Isaiah 40:15

  Look, the nations are like a drop from a bucket, and like dust on the balance they are regarded; look, the coastlands he lifts up like fine powder.

• Jeremiah 32:10

  And I wrote it in the deed and sealed it, and had witnesses testify, and weighed the silver on the scales.

• Ezekiel 5:1

  And you, son of man, take for yourself a sharp sword; as a barbers' razor you will take it for yourself, and pass it over your head and over your beard; and take for yourself scales for weighing, and divide them.

• Ezekiel 45:10

  You shall have just balances, a just ephah, and a just bath.

• Hosea 12:7

  A merchant! In his hand are scales of deceit; he loves to oppress.

• Amos 8:5

  saying, “When will the new moon be over, so that we may sell grain, and the Sabbath, so that we may open the stores of wheat, to make small the ephah and make great the shekel, and to falsify scales of deceit,

• Micah 6:11

  Shall I be pure with scales of wickedness, and with a bag of deceitful weights?