Bible Dictionary: Weigh

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) A corruption of Way, used only in the phrase under weigh.

2. (v. t.) To bear up; to raise; to lift into the air; to swing up; as, to weigh anchor.

3. (v. t.) To examine by the balance; to ascertain the weight of, that is, the force with which a thing tends to the center of the earth; to determine the heaviness, or quantity of matter of; as, to weigh sugar; to weigh gold.

4. (v. t.) To be equivalent to in weight; to counterbalance; to have the heaviness of.

5. (v. t.) To pay, allot, take, or give by weight.

6. (v. t.) To examine or test as if by the balance; to ponder in the mind; to consider or examine for the purpose of forming an opinion or coming to a conclusion; to estimate deliberately and maturely; to balance.

7. (v. t.) To consider as worthy of notice; to regard.

8. (v. i.) To have weight; to be heavy.

9. (v. i.) To be considered as important; to have weight in the intellectual balance.

10. (v. i.) To bear heavily; to press hard.

11. (v. i.) To judge; to estimate.

12. (n.) A certain quantity estimated by weight; an English measure of weight. See Wey.

Greek

916. bareo -- to weigh down
... to weigh down. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: bareo Phonetic Spelling:
(bar-eh'-o) Short Definition: I weight, load, burden Definition: I weight, load ...
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2599a. katabareo -- to weigh down
... to weigh down. Transliteration: katabareo Short Definition: burden. Word Origin
from kata and bareo Definition to weigh down NASB Word Usage burden (1). ...
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2599b. katabaruno -- to weigh down
... katabaruno. 2600 . to weigh down. Transliteration: katabaruno Short Definition:
heavy. ... form of katabareo Definition to weigh down NASB Word Usage heavy (1). ...
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2599. katabareo -- to weigh down
... to weigh down. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: katabareo Phonetic Spelling:
(kat-ab-ar-eh'-o) Short Definition: I burden, oppress Definition: I burden ...
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514. axios -- of weight, of worth, worthy
... 514 (an adjective derived from , "to weigh") -- properly, to , ("worth-to-worth"); ,
ie as the assessment in keeping with how something "weighs in" on . ...
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2476. histemi -- to make to stand, to stand
... to stand, stand Definition: trans: (a) I make to stand, place, set up, establish,
appoint; mid: I place myself, stand, (b) I set in balance, weigh; intrans: (c ...
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1912. epibareo -- to put a burden on
... Word Origin from epi and bareo Definition to put a burden on NASB Word
Usage burden (2), say too much (1). to burden, weigh down. ...
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5412. phortizo -- to load
... 5413 (). Word Origin from the same as phortion Definition to load NASB Word
Usage heavy-laden (1), weigh...down (1). to load, burden. ...
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142. airo -- to raise, take up, lift
... to lift up; by implication, to take up or away; figuratively, to raise (the voice),
keep in suspense (the mind), specially, to sail away (ie Weigh anchor); by ...
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Strong's Hebrew

6424. palas -- to weigh, make level
... 6423, 6424. palas. 6425 . to weigh, make level. Transliteration: palas Phonetic
Spelling: (paw-las') Short Definition: level. ... make, ponder, weigh. ...
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8254. shaqal -- to weigh
... shaqal. 8255 . to weigh. Transliteration: shaqal Phonetic Spelling: (shaw-kal')
Short Definition: weighed. Word Origin a prim. ... pay, receive, spend, weigh. ...
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5537. sala -- to weigh
... sala. 5538 . to weigh. Transliteration: sala Phonetic Spelling: (saw-law') Short
Definition: weighed. ... root Definition to weigh NASB Word Usage weighed (1). ...
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239. azan -- to weigh, test, prove
... 238, 239. azan. 240 . to weigh, test, prove. Transliteration: azan Phonetic
Spelling: (aw-zan') Short Definition: pondered. Word Origin a prim. ...
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8625a. teqal -- to weigh
... to weigh. Transliteration: teqal Short Definition: weighed. Word Origin (Aramaic)
corresponding to shaqal Definition to weigh NASB Word Usage weighed (1). ...
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5541b. salah -- to weigh, balance
... salah. 5542 . to weigh, balance. Transliteration: salah Short Definition: valued. ...
root Definition to weigh, balance NASB Word Usage valued (2). 5541a, 5541b ...
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8625. tqal -- to weigh
... 8624, 8625. tqal. 8625a . to weigh. Transliteration: tqal Phonetic Spelling:
(tek-al') Short Definition: Tekel. Tekel, be weighed ...
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3513. kabad -- to be heavy, weighty, or burdensome
... heavy (2), made your heavy (3), make (1), make it glorious (1), makes himself rich
(1), multiply (2), nobles (1), respected (1), stopped (1), weigh (1), weigh ...
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8505. takan -- to regulate, measure, estimate
... bear up, direct, be unequal, mete, ponder, tell, weigh. ... Estimate, test) -- bear up,
direct, be ((un-))equal, mete, ponder, tell, weigh. 8504, 8505. ...
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5187. natil -- laden
... laden. Transliteration: natil Phonetic Spelling: (net-eel') Short Definition: weigh.
Word Origin from natal Definition laden NASB Word Usage weigh (1). laden. ...
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Library

Who Shall Weigh the Recompense of Abraham? whom I Marvelled at ...
... Hymn LXIII. Who shall weigh the recompense of Abraham? whom I marvelled at when
he bound, his only son. 1. Who shall weigh the recompense of Abraham? ...
/.../ephraim/hymns and homilies of ephraim the syrian/hymn lxiii who shall weigh.htm

Weigh in the Balance.
... Homily II. Chapter LI."Weigh in the Balance. Then Peter said: "If, therefore,
some of the Scriptures are true and some false, with ...
/.../unknown/the clementine homilies/chapter li weigh in the balance.htm

Bowed with a Burden None Can Weigh Save Thee,
... Bowed with a burden none can weigh save Thee,. 10,10,10,10 ... Bowed with a burden none
can weigh save Thee,. Strength of my life, on Thee I cast my care; ...
/.../waring/hymns and meditations/bowed with a burden none.htm

That a Man Should Weigh Each Thought and Each Stirring after that ...
... HERE BEGINNETH THE ELEVENTH CHAPTER That a man should weigh each thought and each
stirring after that it is, and always eschew recklessness in venial sin. ...
/.../anonymous/the cloud of unknowing/here beginneth the eleventh chapter.htm

The Answer on the Way to Keep Control Over Abstinence.
... Theonas: If we weigh everything that we do, by a reasonable judgment of the mind,
and on the purity of our heart always consult not the opinions of other ...
/.../cassian/the conferences of john cassian/chapter xxii the answer on.htm

Epistle xxv. To John, Bishop of Constantinople, and the Other ...
... Again, when I betake myself to consider the works required of the pastor, I weigh
within myself what intent care is to be taken that he be "chief in action, to ...
/.../gregory/the epistles of saint gregory the great/epistle xxv to john bishop.htm

"But Seek Ye First the Kingdom of God," &C.
... world came in competition, (the gain of it now seems great gain,) but I pray you,
if ye laid all that world in the balance with your soul, what would weigh most ...
/.../binning/the works of the rev hugh binning/sermon xviii but seek ye.htm

A Short Method to Know God's Will.
... We are not accustomed to weigh little money, but only valuable pieces: trading would
be too troublesome and would devour too much time, if we were to weigh ...
/.../francis/treatise on the love of god/chapter xiv a short method.htm

I am Told, to Take Another Point, that one of his Followers ...
... Why should he knit his brow and draw in and wrinkle up his nostrils, and weigh out
his hollow words, and simulate among the common crowd a sanctity which his ...
/.../32 i am told to.htm

Our Friends Take it Amiss that I have Spoken of the Origenists as ...
... but we should weigh well the cautious remarks of the philosopher. ... but we
should weigh well the cautious remarks of the philosopher. ...
/.../18 our friends take it.htm

Thesaurus

Weigh (24 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) A corruption of Way, used only in the phrase under weigh. 2. (vt) To bear
up; to raise; to lift into the air; to swing up; as, to weigh anchor. ...
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Ponder (10 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (vt) To weigh in the mind; to view with
deliberation; to examine carefully; to consider attentively. ...
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Balance (12 Occurrences)
... See Balance, vi, S. 10. (n.) To bring to an equipoise, as the scales of a
balance by adjusting the weights; to weigh in a balance. 11. ...
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Equal (70 Occurrences)
... e'-kwal isos: In Ezekiel 18:25; Ezekiel 29; 33:17, 20, "The way of the Lord is not
equal" translates Hebrew yittakhen for takhan, "to weigh," and means "is not ...
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Deliberate (2 Occurrences)
... 4. (vt) To weigh in the mind; to consider the reasons for and against; to consider
maturely; to reflect upon; to ponder; as, to deliberate a question. ...
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Balances (15 Occurrences)
... balances! (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV). Job 31:6 He doth weigh me
in righteous balances, And God doth know my integrity. (YLT). ...
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Weighed (44 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (imp. & pp) of Weigh. Multi-Version Concordance
Weighed (44 Occurrences). Matthew 26:15 and said, "What ...
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Weeps (7 Occurrences)

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Quantity (18 Occurrences)
... 1 Chronicles 20:2 And David took the crown of their king from his head, and found
it to weigh a talent of gold, and there were precious stones in it; and it ...
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Upharsin (1 Occurrence)
... Teqel, on the contrary, is interpreted as coming from two roots: the first, teqal,
"to weigh," and the second, qal, "to be light or wanting" (Hebrew qalal ...
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Bible Concordance

Weigh (24 Occurrences)

Luke 11:46 And he said, A curse is on you, teachers of the law! for while other men are crushed under the weight of the rules you make for them, you yourselves do not put so much as one finger to them.
(Root in BBE NAS)

1 Corinthians 7:21 Were you a slave when God called you? Let not that weigh on your mind. And yet if you can get your freedom, take advantage of the opportunity.
(WEY)

1 Corinthians 14:29 Let the prophets speak, two or three, and let the others discern.
(See RSV NIV)

Exodus 22:17 If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall weigh money according to the dowry of virgins.
(DBY YLT)

2 Samuel 14:26 When he cut the hair of his head (now it was at every year's end that he cut it; because it was heavy on him, therefore he cut it); he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels, after the king's weight.
(Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Kings 20:39 And it cometh to pass -- the king is passing by -- that he hath cried unto the king, and saith, 'Thy servant went out into the midst of the battle, and lo, a man hath turned aside and bringeth in unto me a man, and saith, Keep this man; if he be at all missing, then hath thy life been for his life, or a talent of silver thou dost weigh out;
(YLT)

1 Chronicles 20:2 David took the crown of their king from off his head, and found it to weigh a talent of gold, and there were precious stones in it; and it was set on David's head: and he brought forth the spoil of the city, exceeding much.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Ezra 8:25 and weighed to them the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, even the offering for the house of our God, which the king, and his counselors, and his princes, and all Israel there present, had offered:
(Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Ezra 8:26 I weighed into their hand six hundred fifty talents of silver, and silver vessels one hundred talents; of gold one hundred talents;
(Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Ezra 8:29 Watch, and keep them, until you weigh them before the chiefs of the priests and the Levites, and the princes of the fathers' houses of Israel, at Jerusalem, in the chambers of the house of Yahweh.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Esther 4:7 and Mordecai declareth to him all that hath met him, and the explanation of the money that Haman said to weigh to the treasuries of the king for the Jews, to destroy them,
(YLT)

Job 31:6 (let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity);
(Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Job 33:7 Behold, my terror shall not make you afraid, neither shall my pressure be heavy on you.
(See NAS)

Psalms 38:4 For my crimes have gone over my head; they are like a great weight which is more than my strength.
(Root in BBE NAS RSV)

Psalms 58:2 Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS)

Isaiah 26:7 The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just.
(KJV WBS)

Isaiah 46:6 Some pour out gold from the bag, and weigh silver in the balance. They hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god. They fall down-yes, they worship.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS

Isaiah 55:2 Why do ye weigh money for that which is not bread? And your labour for that which is not for satiety? Hearken diligently unto me, and eat good, And your soul doth delight itself in fatness.
(YLT)

Jeremiah 32:9 I bought the field that was in Anathoth of Hanamel my uncle's son, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver.
(Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Jeremiah 32:10 I subscribed the deed, and sealed it, and called witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances.
(Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 5:1 You, son of man, take a sharp sword; You shall take it as a barber's razor to you, and shall cause it to pass on your head and on your beard: then take balances to weigh, and divide the hair.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Ezekiel 33:10 You, son of man, tell the house of Israel: Thus you speak, saying, Our transgressions and our sins are on us, and we pine away in them; how then can we live?
(See NIV)

Zephaniah 1:11 Because of the downfall of all the people of Canaan: all those who were weighted down with silver have been cut off.
(Root in BBE NAS RSV)

Zechariah 11:12 I said to them, "If you think it best, give me my wages; and if not, keep them." So they weighed for my wages thirty pieces of silver.
(Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Subtopics

Weigh

Related Terms

Ponder (10 Occurrences)

Balance (12 Occurrences)

Equal (70 Occurrences)

Deliberate (2 Occurrences)

Balances (15 Occurrences)

Weighed (44 Occurrences)

Weeps (7 Occurrences)

Quantity (18 Occurrences)

Upharsin (1 Occurrence)