Mozen מֹאזֵן

Mozen (Hebrew מֹאזֵן, Strong's H3976) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “balance”. It occurs 15 times in 15 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Mozen, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Leviticus

• Leviticus 19:36
  Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the Lord your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.You shall maintain honest scales and weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

Job

• Job 6:2
  Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!“If only my grief could be weighed and placed with my calamity on the scales.
• Job 31:6
  Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity.let God weigh me with honest scales, that He may know my integrity.

Psalms

• Psalm 62:9
  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.Lowborn men are but a vapor, the exalted but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.

Proverbs

• Proverbs 11:1
  A false balance is abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is his delight.Dishonest scales are an abomination to the LORD, but an accurate weight is His delight.
• Proverbs 16:11
  A just weight and balance are the Lord’s: all the weights of the bag are his work.Honest scales and balances are from the LORD; all the weights in the bag are His concern.
• Proverbs 20:23
  Divers weights are an abomination unto the Lord; and a false balance is not good.Unequal weights are detestable to the LORD, and dishonest scales are no good.

Isaiah

• Isaiah 40:12
  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?Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or marked off the heavens with the span of his hand? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on a scale and the hills with a balance?
• Isaiah 40:15
  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.Surely the nations are like a drop in a bucket; they are considered a speck of dust on the scales; He lifts up the islands like fine dust.

Jeremiah

• Jeremiah 32:10
  And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed it, and took witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances.I signed and sealed the deed, called in witnesses, and weighed out the silver on the scales.

Ezekiel

• Ezekiel 5:1
  And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife, take thee a barber’s razor, and cause it to pass upon thine head and upon thy beard: then take thee balances to weigh, and divide the hair.“As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword, use it as a barber’s razor, and shave your head and beard. Then take a set of scales and divide the hair.
• Ezekiel 45:10
  Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.You must use honest scales, a just ephah, and a just bath.

Hosea

• Hosea 12:7
  He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.A merchant loves to defraud with dishonest scales in his hands.

Amos

• Amos 8:5
  Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?asking, “When will the New Moon be over, that we may sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, that we may market wheat? Let us reduce the ephah and increase the shekel; let us cheat with dishonest scales.

Micah

• Micah 6:11
  Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?Can I excuse dishonest scales or bags of false weights?

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).