'Scales' in the Bible
" 'These you may eat from all that [are] in the water: any in the water that has a fin and scales, [whether] in the seas or in the streams--such you may eat.
But any that does not have a fin and scales, [whether] in the seas or in the streams, {among} all the water's swarmers among all the living creatures that [are] in the water--they [are] a detestable thing to you.
Any that does not have a fin and scales in the water--it [is] a detestable thing to you.
"This [is what] you shall eat from all that [is] in the water: {everything} {that has fins and scales} you may eat.
But {anything that does not have} fins and scales, you may not eat, [for] it [is] unclean for you.
But another man drew his bow fully and struck the king of Israel between the armor scales and the breastplate; so he said to his chariot driver, "Turn {the chariot} and bring me out from the camp, for I am wounded."
Its back [has] scales of shields; it is shut up closely [as with] a seal.
A balance and scales of justice [belong] to Yahweh; all the weights of the bag [are] his work.
An abomination of Yahweh [is] {a stone and a weight}, and scales of falsehood are not good.
Who has measured [the] waters in the hollow of his hand and marked off [the] heavens with span, comprehended the dust of the earth in third of a measure and weighed out [the] mountains in the scales, and [the] hills in a balance?
Those who lavish gold from [the] purse and weigh out silver in the balance scales; hire {a goldsmith} and he makes him a god; they bow down, indeed they bow in worship.
And I signed on the letter and sealed [it], and I called witnesses as witness, and I weighed out the money on a set of scales.
"And you, son of man, take for yourself a sword, sharp [as] {a barber's razor}. Take it for yourself, and you must cause [it] to pass over your head and over your beard, and you must take for yourself a set of scales for weighing, and you must divide them.
And so I will put hooks in your jawbones, and I will make the fish of your Nile streams stick to your scales, and I will bring you up from the midst of your Nile streams, and all of the fish of your Nile streams [which] cling to your scales.
[There] shall be for you {an honest set of scales} and {an honest ephah} and {an honest bath}.
" 'Tekel'--you have been weighed on scales and you have been found wanting.
[The] trader, in his hand [are] scales of deceit; he loves to oppress.
saying, "When will the new moon be over, so that we can sell grain? And the Sabbath, so that we can open the grain bins, that we can make [the] ephah small and make [the] shekel large, and can practice deceit [with] a set of scales of deceit?
Shall I regard as pure [the one] with scales of wickedness, and with a bag of deceitful weights?
And immediately [something] like scales fell from his eyes and he regained [his] sight and got up [and] was baptized,