Strong's #6957: qav (pronounced kav)

or qav {kawv}; from 6960 (compare 6961); a cord (as connecting), especially for measuring; figuratively, a rule; also a rim, a musical string or accord:--line. Compare 6978.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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qav / qâv

1) cord, line, measuring-line

1a) cord

1b) measuring-line

2) (BDB) onomatapoetic mimicry of Isaiah' s words, perhaps senseless

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from H6960 [compare H6961]

Same Word by TWOT Number: 1992, 1994a

Usage:

This word is used 25 times:

 

1 Kings 7:23: "all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass"
2 Kings 21:13: "over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab:"
2 Chronicles 4:2: "in compass, and five cubits the height thereof; and a line of thirty cubits did compass"
Job 38:5: "or who hath stretched the line upon"
Psalms 19:4: " Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set"
Isaiah 18:2: "from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose"
Isaiah 18:2: "from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose"
Isaiah 18:7: "from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose"
Isaiah 18:7: "from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose"
Isaiah 28:10: "must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here"
Isaiah 28:10: "precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little,"
Isaiah 28:10: "upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there"
Isaiah 28:10: "line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:"
Isaiah 28:13: "upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here"
Isaiah 28:13: "precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little,"
Isaiah 28:13: "upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there"
Isaiah 28:13: "line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little;"
Isaiah 28:17: "Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge"
Isaiah 34:11: "shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness."
Isaiah 34:17: "the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it forever, from generation"
Isaiah 44:13: "The carpenter stretcheth out his rule; he marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes,"
Jeremiah 31:39: "And the measuring line shall yet go forth over against it upon the hill Gareb,"
Lamentations 2:8: "of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying:"
Ezekiel 47:3: "And when the man that had the line in his hand went forth eastward, he measured a thousand cubits,"
Zechariah 1:16: "in it, saith the LORD of hosts, and a line shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem."