קַו
qav
1. line, measuring-line
2. (BDB) onomatapoetic mimicry of Isaiah's words, perhaps senseless
1. cord, line, measuring-line
a. cord
b. measuring-line
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Concordance 14 verses
- 2 Kings 21:13 קָ֣ו
I will stretch out over Jerusalem the measuring line used against Samaria and the plumb line used against the house of Ahab, and I will wipe out Jerusalem as one wipes out a bowl—wiping it and turning it upside down.
- 2 Chronicles 4:2 וְקָו֙
He also made the Sea of cast metal. It was circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim, five cubits in height, and thirty cubits in circumference.
- Job 38:5 קָּֽו׃
Who fixed its measurements? Surely you know! Or who stretched a measuring line across it?
- Psalms 19:4 קַוָּ֗ם
their voice has gone out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world. In the heavens He has pitched a tent for the sun.
- Isaiah 18:2 קַו־קָ֣ו
which sends couriers by sea, in papyrus vessels on the waters. Go, swift messengers, to a people tall and smooth-skinned, to a people widely feared, to a powerful nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers.
- Isaiah 18:7 קַו־קָ֣ו
At that time gifts will be brought to the LORD of Hosts— from a people tall and smooth-skinned, from a people widely feared, from a powerful nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers— to Mount Zion, the place of the Name of the LORD of Hosts.
- Isaiah 28:10 קַ֥ולָקָ֖וקַ֣ולָקָ֑ו
For they hear: “Order on order, order on order, line on line, line on line; a little here, a little there.”
- Isaiah 28:13 קַ֤ולָקָו֙קַ֣ולָקָ֔ו
Then the word of the LORD to them will become: “Order on order, order on order, line on line, line on line; a little here, a little there,” so that they will go stumbling backward and will be injured, ensnared, and captured.
- Isaiah 28:17 לְקָ֔ו
I will make justice the measuring line and righteousness the level. Hail will sweep away your refuge of lies, and water will flood your hiding place.
- Isaiah 34:11 קַֽו־
The desert owl and screech owl will possess it, and the great owl and raven will dwell in it. The LORD will stretch out over Edom a measuring line of chaos and a plumb line of destruction.
- Isaiah 34:17 בַּקָּ֑ו
He has allotted their portion; His hand has distributed it by measure. They will possess it forever; they will dwell in it from generation to generation.
- Isaiah 44:13 קָו֒
The woodworker extends a measuring line; he marks it out with a stylus; he shapes it with chisels and outlines it with a compass. He fashions it in the likeness of man, like man in all his glory, that it may dwell in a shrine.
- Lamentations 2:8 קָ֔ו
The LORD determined to destroy the wall of the Daughter of Zion. He stretched out a measuring line and did not withdraw His hand from destroying. He made the ramparts and walls lament; together they waste away.
- Ezekiel 47:3 וְקָ֣ו
As the man went eastward with a measuring line in his hand, he measured off a thousand cubits and led me through ankle-deep water.