קַוqav
קַו: mimicry of Isaiah's words, perhaps senseless (Isaiah 28:10; Isaiah 28:13)
Pronunciation: kav · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6957
Meanings
קַו: measuring-line (Zechariah 1:16; Ezekiel 47:3; Isaiah 34:17; 2 Kings 21:13; Jeremiah 31:39)
קוה: Kt = II. קַו Qr (Zechariah 1:16; 1 Kings 7:23; Jeremiah 31:39)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 21 times in the Bible.
- 1 Kings 7:23 Then Huram cast a great round basin, 15 feet across from rim to rim, called the Sea. It was 7 1⁄2 feet deep and about 45 feet in circumference.
- 2 Kings 21:13 I will judge Jerusalem by the same standard I used for Samaria and the same measure I used for the family of Ahab. I will wipe away the people of Jerusalem as one wipes a dish and turns it upside down.
- 2 Chronicles 4:2 Then he cast a great round basin, 15 feet across from rim to rim, called the Sea. It was 7 1⁄2 feet deep and about 45 feet in circumference.
- Job 38:5 Who determined its dimensions and stretched out the surveying line?
- Psalms 19:4 Yet their message has gone throughout the earth, and their words to all the world. God has made a home in the heavens for the sun.
- Isaiah 28:10 He tells us everything over and over— one line at a time, one line at a time, a little here, and a little there!”
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).