מֹאזֵן môʼzên

Meaning

(only in the dual) a pair of scales

In the King James Version: balances.

Derivation: from H239 (אָזַן);

Where it is used

• Leviticus 19:36 You shall maintain honest scales and weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
• Job 6:2 “If only my grief could be weighed and placed with my calamity on the scales.
• Job 31:6 let God weigh me with honest scales, that He may know my integrity.
• Psalms 62:9 Lowborn men are but a vapor; the exalted are but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.
• Proverbs 11:1 Dishonest scales are an abomination to the LORD, but an accurate weight is His delight.
• Proverbs 16:11 Honest scales and balances are from the LORD; all the weights in the bag are His concern.
• Proverbs 20:23 Unequal weights are detestable to the LORD, and dishonest scales are no good.
• Isaiah 40:12 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?
• Isaiah 40:15 Surely the nations are like a drop in a bucket; they are considered a speck of dust on the scales; He lifts up the islands like fine dust.
• Jeremiah 32:10 I signed and sealed the deed, called in witnesses, and weighed out the silver on the scales.
• Ezekiel 5:1 “As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword, use it as a barber’s razor, and shave your head and beard. Then take a set of scales and divide the hair.
• Ezekiel 45:10 You must use honest scales, a just ephah, and a just bath.
• Hosea 12:7 A merchant loves to defraud with dishonest scales in his hands.
• Amos 8:5 asking, “When will the New Moon be over, that we may sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, that we may market wheat? Let us reduce the ephah and increase the shekel; let us cheat with dishonest scales.
• Micah 6:11 Can I excuse dishonest scales or bags of false weights?