מֹאזֵן
scales
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Dual
- Exactly two — for natural pairs and some measures of time.
5 distinct verses where H3976 appears in the Absolute state, across 4 books. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Job 1 verse
Psalms 1 verse
Isaiah 2 verses
- Isaiah 40:12 בְּ/מֹאזְנָֽיִם prep + n c md Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out the sky with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
- Isaiah 40:15 מֹאזְנַ֖יִם n c md Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are accounted as the small dust of the balance: Behold, he takes up the isles as a very little thing.
Jeremiah 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Hebrew noun מאזן centers on the idea of “scales.” Where the King James Version says “balance,” newer translations reach for “scales” (Berean Standard Bible); the renderings breakdown has the detail. It appears 15 verses across 10 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its uncommon vocabulary. Debuting at Leviticus 19:36, it then recurs through the corpus. It shares a root with אזן and מאזן. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H3976 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 15
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 15 distinct verses.
- 10 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 10 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,836
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,836 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 15 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 15 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 8 verses · 53%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 6 verses · 40%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 1 verse · 7%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Balance 7×, Balances 7×
- American Standard Version: Balances 8×, Balance 6×
- Berean Standard Bible: Scales 11×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Scales 5×, Scales of 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3976 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H3976 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H3976 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H3976 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- scales, balances
Word origin
[ מאזן ] n.[m.]du. balances, scales
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from אזן (ʼâzan) (H239) — to weigh.
Forms in the corpus
The 12 distinct written forms H3976 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| מֹאזְנֵ֥י | Noun, Common, Masculine, Dual, Construct | Amos 8:5 | 3 |
| בְּ/מֹאזְנָֽיִם | Noun, Common, Masculine, Dual, Absolute | Isaiah 40:12 | 2 |
| בְ/מֹאזְנֵי | Noun, Common, Masculine, Dual, Construct | Job 31:6 | 1 |
| בְּ/מֹ֣אזְנֵי | Noun, Common, Masculine, Dual, Construct | Micah 6:11 | 1 |
| בְּ/מֹאזְנַ֥יִם | Noun, Common, Masculine, Dual, Absolute | Psalms 62:9 | 1 |
| בְּֽ/מֹאזְנַ֥יִם | Noun, Common, Masculine, Dual, Absolute | Job 6:2 | 1 |
| וּ/מֹאזְנֵ֖י | Noun, Common, Masculine, Dual, Construct | Proverbs 20:23 | 1 |
| וּ/מֹאזְנֵ֣י | Noun, Common, Masculine, Dual, Construct | Proverbs 16:11 | 1 |
| מֹ֧אזְנֵי | Noun, Common, Masculine, Dual, Construct | Leviticus 19:36 | 1 |
| מֹֽאזְנֵי | Noun, Common, Masculine, Dual, Construct | Ezekiel 45:10 | 1 |
| מֹאזְנֵ֣י | Noun, Common, Masculine, Dual, Construct | Proverbs 11:1 | 1 |
| מֹאזְנַ֖יִם | Noun, Common, Masculine, Dual, Absolute | Isaiah 40:15 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H3976, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 14 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 15 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Leviticus 19:36
- Job 6:2
- Psalms 62:9
- Proverbs 11:1
- Isaiah 40:12
- Jeremiah 32:10
- Ezekiel 5:1
- Hosea 12:7
- Amos 8:5
- Micah 6:11
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
