στάθμιον
weight, balance
Where this word appears
A sample of passages — one per book it occurs in — where στάθμιον appears in the Greek Septuagint (of 15 total occurrences). Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Leviticus 19:35 στάθμιον You⌃ shall not act unrighteously in judgment, in measures and weights and scales.
- Leviticus 19:36 στάθμιον There shall be among you just balances and just weights and just liquid measure. I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
- Leviticus 27:25 στάθμιον And every valuation shall be by holy weights: the didrachm shall be twenty oboli.
- Deuteronomy 25:13 στάθμιον You shall not have in your bag various weights, a great and a small.
- Deuteronomy 25:13 στάθμιον You shall not have in your bag various weights, a great and a small.
- Deuteronomy 25:15 στάθμιον You shall have a true and just weight, and a true and just measure, that you may live long upon the land which the Lord your God gives you for an inheritance.
- 2 Kings 21:13 στάθμιον And I will stretch out over Jerusalem the measure of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Achaab: and I will wipe Jerusalem as a jar is wiped, and turned upside down in the wiping.
- Proverbs 16:7 στάθμιον
- Ezekiel 5:1 στάθμιον And you, son of man, take you a sword sharper than a barber's razor; you shall procure it for yourself, and shall bring it upon your head, and upon your beard: and you shall take a pair of scales, and shall separate the hair.
- Ezekiel 45:12 στάθμιον And the weights shall be twenty oboli, your pound shall be five shekels, fifteen shekels and fifty shekels.
- Amos 8:5 στάθμιον saying, When will the month pass away, and we shall sell, and the sabbath, and we shall open the treasure, to make the measure small, and to enlarge the weight, and make the balance unfair?
- Micah 6:11 στάθμιον Shall the wicked be justified by the balanced, or deceitful weights in the bag,
About this word
About this word
στάθμιον (státhmion), “weight, balance,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 15 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →
