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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lo, we are coming into the land, this line of scarlet thread thou dost bind to the window by which thou hast caused us to go down, and thy father, and thy mother, and thy brethren, and all the house of thy father thou dost gather unto thee, to the house;
And she saith, 'According unto your words, so it is;' and she sendeth them away, and they go; and she bindeth the scarlet line to the window.
And all the openings and the side-posts are square -- windows; and sight is over-against sight three times.
And he formeth the two pillars of brass; eighteen cubits is the height of the one pillar, and a cord of twelve cubits doth compass the second pillar.
Lines have fallen to me in pleasant places, Yea, a beauteous inheritance is for me.
Into all the earth hath their line gone forth, And to the end of the world their sayings, For the sun He placed a tent in them,
And casteth out nations from before them, And causeth them to fall in the line of inheritance, And causeth the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents,
For rule is on rule, rule on rule, line on line, line on line, A little here, a little there,
He hath wrought with wood, He hath stretched out a rule, He doth mark it out with a line, He maketh it with carving tools, And with a compass he marketh it out, And maketh it according to the form of a man, According to the beauty of a man, To remain in the house.
And gone out again hath the measuring line Over-against it, unto the height of Gareb, And it hath compassed to Goah.
And He bringeth me in thither, and lo, a man, his appearance as the appearance of brass, and a thread of flax in his hand, and a measuring-reed, and he is standing at the gate,
And he cometh in unto the gate whose front is eastward, and he goeth up by its steps, and he measureth the threshold of the gate one reed broad, even the one threshold one reed broad,
In the going out of the man eastward, and a line in his hand, then he measureth a thousand by the cubit, and he causeth me to pass over into water -- water to the ankles.
therefore thus said Jehovah: Thy wife in the city doth go a-whoring, And thy sons and thy daughters by sword do fall, And thy land by line is apportioned, And thou on an unclean land diest, And Israel certainly removeth from off its land.'
Therefore, thus said Jehovah: I have turned to Jerusalem with mercies, My house is built in it, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts, And a line is stretched over Jerusalem.
And I lift up mine eyes, and look, and lo, a man, and in his hand a measuring line.
but I say, Did they not hear? yes, indeed -- 'to all the earth their voice went forth, and to the ends of the habitable world their sayings.'
for not he who is commending himself is approved, but he whom the Lord doth commend.