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Proverbs 16

Prov. 16:11 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Ah just
mishpat (Hebrew #4941)
properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant's) divine law, individual or collective), including the act, the place, the suit, the crime, and the penalty; abstractly, justice, including a participant's right or privilege (statutory or customary), or even a style
KJV usage: + adversary, ceremony, charge, X crime, custom, desert, determination, discretion, disposing, due, fashion, form, to be judged, judgment, just(-ice, -ly), (manner of) law(-ful), manner, measure, (due) order, ordinance, right, sentence, usest, X worthy, + wrong.
Pronounce: mish-pawt'
Origin: from 8199
weight
pelec (Hebrew #6425)
a balance
KJV usage: scales, weight.
Pronounce: peh'-les
Origin: from 6424
and balance
mo'zen (Hebrew #3976)
(only in the dual) a pair of scales
KJV usage: balances.
Pronounce: mo-zane'
Origin: from 239
are the Lord’s
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
: all the γweights
'eben (Hebrew #68)
a stone
KJV usage: + carbuncle, + mason, + plummet, (chalk-, hail-, head-, sling-)stone(-ny), (divers) weight(-s).
Pronounce: eh'-ben
Origin: from the root of 1129 through the meaning to build
of the bag
kiyc (Hebrew #3599)
a cup; also a bag for money or weights
KJV usage: bag, cup, purse.
Pronounce: keece
Origin: a form for 3563
are his work
ma`aseh (Hebrew #4639)
an action (good or bad); generally, a transaction; abstractly, activity; by implication, a product (specifically, a poem) or (generally) property
KJV usage: act, art, + bakemeat, business, deed, do(-ing), labor, thing made, ware of making, occupation, thing offered, operation, possession, X well, ((handy-, needle-, net-))work(ing, - manship), wrought.
Pronounce: mah-as-eh'
Origin: from 6213
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Lev. 19:36• 36just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin shall ye have: I am Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt. (Lev. 19:36)
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stones.

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Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Prov. 11:1• 1A false balance is an abomination to Jehovah; but a just weight is his delight. (Prov. 11:1)
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Prov. 20:10,23• 10Divers weights, divers measures, even both of them are abomination to Jehovah.
 23Divers weights are an abomination unto Jehovah; and a false balance is not good. (Prov. 20:10,23)
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Lev. 19:35‑36• 35Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measure of length, in weight, and in measure of capacity:
 36just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin shall ye have: I am Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt. (Lev. 19:35‑36)
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Deut. 25:13‑15• 13Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.
 14Thou shalt not have in thy house divers ephahs, a great and a small.
 15A perfect and just weight shalt thou have; a perfect and just ephah shalt thou have; that thy days may be prolonged in the land that Jehovah thy God giveth thee. (Deut. 25:13‑15)
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Ezek. 45:10• 10Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath. (Ezek. 45:10)
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Hos. 12:7• 7He is a merchant, balances of deceit are in his hand; he loveth to oppress. (Hos. 12:7)
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Amos 8:5• 5saying, 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 for deceit: (Amos 8:5)
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Mic. 6:11• 11Shall I be pure with the unjust balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights? (Mic. 6:11)
weights.
Heb. stones.
• Whatever is right and true among men is from God. All baseness and dishonest trickery are detestable in His eyes. So we have the weights and balances introduced in the midst of this section, relating to kingly dignity. For it is the same integrity that directs the decision of the upright king and the measures of the poorest of his subjects. (“Proverbs Sixteen” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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The just balance and scales are Jehovah’s; all the weights of the bag are his work.