Reference: Line
Hastings
1. qaw, which is of most frequent occurrence, is properly a measuring line (e.g. Jer 31:39; Eze 47:3; Zec 1:16). Figuratively it denotes a rule of life (cf. 'precept upon precept, line upon line' of Isaiah's teaching, Isa 28:10). Ps 19:4 their line is gone out through all the earth' has been variously interpreted. The Septuagint, taking the line to be a resonant cord, rendered by phthonggos
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Behold, when we come into the land, you shall bind this scarlet cord in the window through which you let us down, and you shall bring your father and mother, your brothers, and all your father's household into your house.
And she said, According to your words, so it is. Then she sent them away and they departed; and she bound the scarlet cord in the window.
All the doorways and windows were square cut, and window was opposite window in three tiers.
He fashioned the two pillars of bronze, each eighteen cubits high, and a line of twelve cubits measured its circumference.
The lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; yes, I have a good heritage.
Yet their voice [in evidence] goes out through all the earth, their sayings to the end of the world. Of the heavens has God made a tent for the sun,
He drove out the nations also before [Israel] and allotted their land as a heritage, measured out and partitioned; and He made the tribes of Israel to dwell in the tents of those dispossessed.
For it is [His prophets repeating over and over]: precept upon precept, precept upon precept, rule upon rule, rule upon rule; here a little, there a little.
The carpenter stretches out a line, he marks it out with a pencil or red ocher; he fashions [an idol] with planes and marks it out with the compasses; and he shapes it to have the figure of a man, with the beauty of a man, that it may dwell in a house.
And the measuring line shall go out farther straight onward to the hill Gareb and shall then turn to Goah [exact location unknown].
He brought me there, and behold, there was a man [an angel] whose appearance was like bronze, with a line of flax and a measuring reed in his hand, and he stood in the gateway.
Then he came to the gate which faced the east and went up its [seven] steps and measured the threshold of the gateway, one reed broad, and the other threshold of the gateway [inside the thick wall], one reed broad.
And when the man went on eastward with the measuring line in his hand, he measured a thousand cubits, and he caused me to pass through the waters, waters that were ankle-deep.
Therefore thus says the Lord: Your wife shall be a harlot in the city and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be divided up by line; you yourself shall die in an unclean and defiled land, and Israel shall surely go forth out of his land into exile.
Therefore thus says the Lord: I have returned to Jerusalem with compassion (lovingkindness and mercy). My house shall be built in it, says the Lord of hosts, and a measuring line shall be stretched out over Jerusalem [with a view to rebuilding its walls].
And I lifted up my eyes and saw, and behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand.
But I ask, Have they not heard? Indeed they have; [for the Scripture says] Their voice [that of nature bearing God's message] has gone out to all the earth, and their words to the far bounds of the world.
For [it is] not [the man] who praises and commends himself who is approved and accepted, but [it is the person] whom the Lord accredits and commends.