Strong’s
H6425Noun, masculine2 times in the Hebrew BibleWhere it occurs
Translated as
In the text
- Proverbs 16:11פֶּלֶס
Honest scales and balances are from the LORD; all the weights in the bag are His concern.
- Isaiah 40:12בַּפֶּלֶס
Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or marked off the heavens with the span of his hand? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on a scale and the hills with a balance?
Brown-Driver-Briggs
פֶּ֫לֶס n.[m.] balance, scale
Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.