Strongs's #8505: takan - Greek/Hebrew Definitions

Greek/Hebrew Definitions

Strong's #8505: takan (pronounced taw-kan')

a primitive root; to balance, i.e. measure out (by weight or dimension); figuratively, arrange, equalize, through the idea of levelling (ment. estimate, test):--bear up, direct, be ((un-))equal, mete, ponder, tell, weigh.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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tâkan

1) to regulate, measure, estimate, ponder, balance, make even, level, weigh, be equal, be weighed out, test, prove

1a) (Qal) estimate (participle)
1b) (Niphal)

1b1) to be estimated
1b2) to be made even or right, be adjusted to the standard

1c) (Piel) to weigh out, mete out
1d) (Pual)

1d1) to be weighed out, be measured out
1d2) measured out (participle)

Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 18 times:

1 Samuel 2:3: "for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed."
2 Kings 12:11: "And they gave the money, being told, into the hands of them that did the work,"
Job 28:25: "To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure."
Psalms 75:3: "the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah."
Proverbs 16:2: "are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits."
Proverbs 21:2: "is right in his own eyes: but the LORD pondereth the hearts."
Proverbs 24:12: "it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul,"
Isaiah 40:12: "hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust"
Isaiah 40:13: "Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counselor hath taught"
Ezekiel 18:25: "Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, O house"
Ezekiel 18:25: "O house of Israel; Is not my way equal? are not your ways unequal?"
Ezekiel 18:25: "my way equal? are not your ways unequal?"
Ezekiel 18:29: "of Israel, The way of the Lord is not equal. O house of Israel, are not"
Ezekiel 18:29: "O house of Israel, are not my ways equal? are not your ways unequal?"
Ezekiel 18:29: "my ways equal? are not your ways unequal?"
Ezekiel 33:17: "say, The way of the Lord is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal."
Ezekiel 33:17: "is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal."
Ezekiel 33:20: "Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. O ye house of Israel, I will judge"

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