Proverbs 16:11

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

A just weight and balance are the LORD'S: all the weights of the bag are his work.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

פֶּ֤לֶס ׀ וּמֹאזְנֵ֣י מִ֭שְׁפָּט לַֽיהוָ֑ה מַ֝עֲשֵׂ֗הוּ כָּל־אַבְנֵי־כִֽיס׃

Transliteration

peles and-mōʾznê mišpāṭ to-YHWH maʿăśēhû all-ʾaḇnê-kîs

Grammar Details

*peles*: noun, masculine, singular - scale/balance
*wᵉ*: conjunction - and
*mōʾznê*: noun, feminine, dual construct - scales/balances of
*mišpāṭ*: noun, masculine, singular - justice/judgment/right
*lᵉ*: preposition - to/belonging to
*YHWH*: divine name
*maʿăśēhû*: noun, masculine, singular with 3rd masculine singular suffix - his work
*kol*: noun, masculine, singular construct - all
*ʾaḇnê*: noun, feminine, plural construct - stones of
*kîs*: noun, masculine, singular - bag/purse

Word Meanings

*peles ûmōʾznê mišpāṭ*: scale and just balances/accurate weights and measures
*ʾaḇnê-kîs*: stones of bag/weights in the pouch/weighing stones

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Prov 11:1 : 1 A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.
Prov 20:10 : 10 Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
Prov 20:23 : 23 Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good.
Ezek 45:10 : 10 Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
Hos 12:7 : 7 He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
Amos 8:5 : 5 Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?
Mic 6:11 : 11 Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
Lev 19:35-36 : 35 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure. 36 Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.
Deut 25:13-15 : 13 Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small. 14 Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small. 15 But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

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