Strong H69572 sensesקַו

The 2 senses of Strong H6957

The lexicon tells 2 senses apart under this number. In the Bible, each word leads to the one it has in its verse. Strong H6957 appears in 15 verses of the KJV, all senses together.

1. lineH6957Bcord, line, measuring-line13 verses · 10 books
2. cordH6957Anoun2 verses · Isaiah

General definition

In the Bible

Translated in the KJV by

• line14
• rule1

First verses

1. 1 Kings 7:23
   And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.
2. 2 Kings 21:13
   And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it, and turning it upside down.
3. 2 Chronicles 4:2
   Also he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and five cubits the height thereof; and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.
4. Job 38:5
   Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?
5. Psalms 19:4
   Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,
6. Isaiah 28:10
   For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
7. Isaiah 28:13
   But the word of the Lord was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
8. Isaiah 28:17
   Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
9. Isaiah 34:11
   But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.
10. Isaiah 34:17
    And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation shall they dwell therein.
11. Isaiah 44:13
    The carpenter stretcheth out his rule; he marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house.
12. Jeremiah 31:39
    And the measuring line shall yet go forth over against it upon the hill Gareb, and shall compass about to Goath.
13. Lamentations 2:8
    The Lord hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.
14. Ezekiel 47:3
    And when the man that had the line in his hand went forth eastward, he measured a thousand cubits, and he brought me through the waters; the waters were to the ankles.
15. Zechariah 1:16
    Therefore thus saith the Lord; I am returned to Jerusalem with mercies: my house shall be built in it, saith the Lord of hosts, and a line shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem.