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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unless, when we enter the land, you tie this scarlet cord to the window through which you let us down. Bring your father, mother, brothers, and all your father's family into your house.
"Let it be as you say," she replied, and she sent them away. After they had gone, she tied the scarlet cord to the window.
All the doors and doorposts had rectangular frames, the openings facing each other in three tiers.
He cast two [hollow] bronze pillars: each 27 feet high and 18 feet in circumference.
The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; indeed, I have a beautiful inheritance.
Their message has gone out to all the earth, and their words to the ends of the inhabited world. In the heavens He has pitched a tent for the sun.
He drove out nations before them. He apportioned their inheritance by lot and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
For [he says]: "Law after law, law after law, line after line, line after line, a little here, a little there."
The woodworker stretches out a measuring line, he outlines it with a stylus; he shapes it with chisels and outlines it with a compass. He makes it according to a human likeness, like a beautiful person, to dwell in a temple.
A measuring line will once again stretch out straight to the hill of Gareb and then turn toward Goah.
He brought me there, and I saw a man whose appearance was like bronze, with a linen cord and a measuring rod in his hand. He was standing by the gate.
Then he came to the gate that faced east and climbed its steps. He measured the threshold of the gate; it was 10 feet deep-the first threshold was 10 feet deep.
As the man went out east with a measuring line in his hand, he measured off a third of a mile and led me through the water. It came up to [my] ankles.
Therefore, this is what the Lord says: Your wife will be a prostitute in the city, your sons and daughters will fall by the sword, and your land will be divided up with a measuring line. You yourself will die on pagan soil, and Israel will certainly go into exile from its homeland.
Therefore, this is what the Lord says: I have graciously returned to Jerusalem; My house will be rebuilt within it"-the declaration of the Lord of Hosts-"and a measuring line will be stretched out over Jerusalem.
But I ask, "Did they not hear?" Yes, they did: Their voice has gone out to all the earth, and their words to the ends of the inhabited world.
For it is not the one commending himself who is approved, but the one the Lord commends.