Reference: Line
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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, we come into the land, thou shalt bind the line of this scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let us down by it: and thy father and thy mother and thy brethren, and all thy father's house thou shalt gather to thee to the house.
And she will say, According to your words so be it. And she will send them away and they will go: and she will bind the scarlet cord in the window.
And all the doors and door-posts, quadrated with the bar: and the front of the window against the window, three steps.
And he formed two pillars of brass, eighteen cubits the height of the one pillar: and a thread of twelve cubits will surround the two pillars.
The cords fell to me in sweetnesses; also the inheritance was bountiful upon me.
Their line went forth into all the earth, and their words into the ends of the habitable globe. In them he set a tent for the sun.
And he will cast out the nations from their face, and he will divide them by lot in the measure of inheritance, and he will cause the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
For precept to precept, precept to precept; line to line, line to line; a little there, a little there:
The workman of woods stretched out the line; he will delineate it with an awl, he will do it with chisels, and he will delineate it with a compass, and he will make it according to the image of a man, according to the beauty of man; to dwell in the house
And the line of measure shall yet go forth over against it upon the hill Gareb, and it went about Goath.
And he will bring me there, and behold, a man, his appearance as the appearance of brass, and a cord of flax in his hand, and a reed of measure; and he stood in the gate.
And he will come to the gate which its face the: way of the east, and he will come up upon its steps, and he will measure the threshold of the gate, one reed the breadth, and the other threshold, one reed the breadth.
And in the going forth of the man eastward, and the line in his hand, and he will measure a thousand by the cubit, and he will cause me to pass through the waters; the waters of the soles.
For this, thus said Jehovah: Thy wife shall commit fornication in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be divided by line, and thou shalt die upon a polluted land: and Israel being taken captive shall be carried into captivity from his land.
For this, thus said Jehovah: I turned back to Jerusalem with mercies: my house shall be built in it, says Jehovah of armies, and a cord shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem.
I shall lift up mine eyes and see, and behold, a man, and in his hand a cord of measure.
But I say, Have they not heard? Surely, in all the earth went out their sound, and their words to the end of the habitable globe.
For not he recommending himself, this is acceptable, but whom the Lord recommends.