KJV dictionary & concordance
1. An instrument with opposing scales for weighing. 2. By figure, the weighing or judging of a person or matter.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Leviticus 19:36
Complete exact-word concordance
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.
Iust ballances, iust weights, a iust Ephah, and a iust Hin shall ye haue: I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.
1611 marginal noteHeb. stones.
1611 marginal noteProu. 11.1. and 16.11. and 20.10.
Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
Oh that my griefe were throughly weighed, and my calamitie layd in the balances together.
1611 marginal noteHeb. lifted vp.
And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed it, and took witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances.
And I subscribed the euidence, and sealed it, and tooke witnesses, and weighed him the money in the ballances.
1611 marginal noteHeb. wrote in the booke.
AND thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife, take thee a barber’s rasor, and cause it to pass upon thine head and upon thy beard: then take thee balances to weigh, and divide the hair.
¶ And thou sonne of man, take thee a sharpe knife, take thee a barbours rasor, and cause it to passe vpon thine head and vpon thy beard: then take the ballances to weigh, and diuide the haire.
Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
Ye shall haue iust ballances, and a iust Ephah, and a iust Bath.
1611 marginal noteLeuit. 19.3,35,36.
TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
TEKEL, thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
¶ He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
¶ He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: hee loueth to oppresse.
1611 marginal noteOr, Canaan
1611 marginal noteOr, deceiue
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?
Saying, When will the newe Moone be gone, that we may sell corne? and the Sabbath, that wee may set forth wheat, making the Ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?
1611 marginal noteOr, moneth.
1611 marginal noteHeb. open.
1611 marginal noteHeb. peruerting the balances of deceit.
Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitfull weights?
1611 marginal noteOr, shall I be pure with, &c.
And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
And when hee had opened the third seale, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and loe, a blacke horse: and hee that sate on him had a paire of balances in his hand.
Source order
1 · KJV context and cross-references
