פֶּלֶס
peles · balance, scale
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H6425 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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peles (פֶּלֶס) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “balance, scale”.
A balance, a scale for weighing exactly.
How to say it
pe·les
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
- An instrument for weighing exactly.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- balance ×1
- scale ×1
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Proverbs 16:11
The balance and the scales of justice are YHWH’s; his work are all the stones of the bag.
- 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?