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Daniel 5

Dan. 5:27 KJV (With Strong’s)

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TEKEL
tqal (Hebrew #8625)
to balance
KJV usage: Tekel, be weighed.
Pronounce: tek-al'
Origin: (Aramaic) corresponding to 8254
; Thou art weighed
tqal (Hebrew #8625)
to balance
KJV usage: Tekel, be weighed.
Pronounce: tek-al'
Origin: (Aramaic) corresponding to 8254
o in the balances
mo'zen (Hebrew #3977)
(Aramaic) corresponding to 3976
KJV usage: balances.
Pronounce: mo-zane'
, and art found
shkach (Hebrew #7912)
to discover (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: find.
Pronounce: shek-akh'
Origin: (Aramaic) corresponding to 7911 through the idea of disclosure of a covered or forgotten thing
wanting
chacciyr (Hebrew #2627)
deficient
KJV usage: wanting.
Pronounce: khas-seer'
Origin: (Aramaic) from a root corresponding to 2637
p.
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Job 31:6• 6Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity. (Job 31:6)
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Psa. 62:9• 9Surely 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. (Psa. 62:9)
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Matt. 22:11‑12• 11And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment:
 12And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless. (Matt. 22:11‑12)
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1 Cor. 3:13• 13Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. (1 Cor. 3:13)

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Thou.
Job 31:6• 6Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity. (Job 31:6)
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Psa. 62:9• 9Surely 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. (Psa. 62:9)
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Jer. 6:30• 30Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the Lord hath rejected them. (Jer. 6:30)
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Ezek. 22:18‑20• 18Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all they are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are even the dross of silver.
 19Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because ye are all become dross, behold, therefore I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.
 20As they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt it; so will I gather you in mine anger and in my fury, and I will leave you there, and melt you. (Ezek. 22:18‑20)
art.
Matt. 22:11‑12• 11And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment:
 12And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless. (Matt. 22:11‑12)
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1 Cor. 3:13• 13Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. (1 Cor. 3:13)
• Belshazzar, blind to all the teachings of the past, had more grievously sinned by magnifying his idols above the God in whose hand his breath was, and had thus lifted up himself against the Lord of heaven. (“Daniel 5” by E. Dennett)

J. N. Darby Translation

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TEKEL, Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting;