Reference: Line
Hastings
1. qaw, which is of most frequent occurrence, is properly a measuring line (e.g. Jer 31:39; Eze 47:3; Zec 1:16). Figuratively it denotes a rule of life (cf. 'precept upon precept, line upon line' of Isaiah's teaching, Isa 28:10). Ps 19:4 their line is gone out through all the earth' has been variously interpreted. The Septuagint, taking the line to be a resonant cord, rendered by phthonggos
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Behold, when we come into the land, you shall bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which you did let us down by: and you shall bring your father, and your mother, and your brethren, and all your father's household, home unto you.
And she said, According unto your words, so be it. And she sent them away, and they departed: and she bound the scarlet line in the window.
And all the doors and posts were square, with the windows: and window was opposite window in three tiers.
For he cast two pillars of bronze, of eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits measured the circumference of each.
The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.
Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them has he set a tabernacle for the sun,
He cast out the nations also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
The carpenter stretches out his rule; he marks it out with a line; he fashions it with planes, and he marks it out with the compass, and makes it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house.
And the measuring line shall yet go straight over to the hill Gareb, and shall then turn to Goah.
And he brought me there, and, behold, there was a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of bronze, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring rod; and he stood in the gate.
Then came he unto the gate which looks toward the east, and went up its stairs, and measured the threshold of the gate, which was one rod wide; and the other threshold of the gate, which was one rod wide.
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 up to the ankles.
Therefore thus says the LORD; Your wife shall be a harlot in the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be divided by a survey line; and you shall die in a defiled land: and Israel shall surely go forth into captivity from his land.
Therefore thus says the LORD; I have returned to Jerusalem with mercies: my house shall be built in it, says the LORD of hosts, and a measuring line shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem.
I lifted up my eyes again, and looked, and behold a man with a measuring line in his hand.
But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.
For not he that commends himself is approved, but whom the Lord commends.