'Balance' in the Bible
he may calculate the years since its sale, repay the balance to the man he sold it to, and return to his property.
If he has not prospered enough to refund a balance to him, then what he sold will belong to the one who bought it until the jubilee year, but it must revert in the jubilee and the original owner may return to his property.
Furthermore, the balance remaining of the silver and gold may be used for whatever other purpose you and your people desire, as long as such use is consistent with the will of your God.
"If only my grief could be weighed; or my calamity piled together on a balance scale!
It is not set in the balance with gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, and the sapphire.
The topaz of Ethiopia shall not be compared to it, neither shall it be set in the balance with pure gold.
Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity.
Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.
A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.
A just weight and balance are the LORD'S: all the weights of the bag are his work.
Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good.
Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship.
TEKEL means that you have been weighed in the balance and found deficient.
who was betrayed and crucified because of our sins, and was raised [from the dead] because of our justification [our acquittal—absolving us of all sin before God].