Strong's Concordance H6957

Original Word: קַו
Transliteration: qav
Phonetic Spelling: kav
or קָו; from H6960 (compare H6961); a cord (as connecting), especially for measuring; figuratively, a rule; also a rim, a musical string or accord; line. Compare H6978.

Usages throughout the bible

1 Kings 7:23 - And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line H6957 of thirty cubits did compass it round about.

2 Kings 21:13 - And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line H6957 of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it, and turning it upside down.

2 Chronicles 4:2 - Also he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and five cubits the height thereof; and a line H6957 of thirty cubits did compass it round about.

Job 38:5 - Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line H6957 upon it?

Psalms 19:4 - Their line H6957 is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,

Isaiah 28:10 - For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line H6957 upon line, H6957 line H6957 upon line; H6957 here a little, and there a little:

Isaiah 28:13 - But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line H6957 upon line, H6957 line H6957 upon line; H6957 here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

Isaiah 28:17 - Judgment also will I lay to the line, H6957 and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.

Isaiah 34:11 - But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line H6957 of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.

Isaiah 34:17 - And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it unto them by line: H6957 they shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation shall they dwell therein.

Isaiah 44:13 - The carpenter stretcheth out his rule; H6957 he marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house.

Jeremiah 31:39 - And the measuring line H6957 shall yet go forth over against it upon the hill Gareb, and shall compass about to Goath.

Lamentations 2:8 - The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, H6957 he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.

Ezekiel 47:3 - And when the man that had the line H6957 in his hand went forth eastward, he measured a thousand cubits, and he brought me through the waters; the waters were to the ankles.

Zechariah 1:16 - Therefore thus saith the LORD; I am returned to Jerusalem with mercies: my house shall be built in it, saith the LORD of hosts, and a line H6957 shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem.