1) line, measuring-line 2) (BDB) onomatapoetic mimicry of Isaiah's words, perhaps senseless
STRONG'S WORD STUDY
H6957 — קַו
qav · cord · Hebrew/Aramaic
14 tagged verse occurrences
1 Kings 7:23 · וְקָו֙And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: [it was] round all about, and his height [was] five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.2 Kings 21:13 · קָ֣וAnd I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe Jerusalem as [a man] wipeth a dish, wiping [it], and turning [it] upside down.2 Chronicles 4:2 · וְקָו֙Also he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and five cubits the height thereof; and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.Job 38:5 · קָּֽו׃Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?Psalm 19:4 · קַוָּ֗םTheir line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,Isaiah 28:10 · קַ֥ו · לָקָ֖ו · קַ֣ו · לָקָ֑וFor precept [must be] upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, [and] there a little:Isaiah 28:13 · קַ֤ו · לָקָו֙ · קַ֣ו · לָקָ֔וBut the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, [and] there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.Isaiah 28:17 · לְקָ֔וJudgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.Isaiah 34:11 · קַֽו־But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.Isaiah 34:17 · בַּקָּ֑וAnd he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation shall they dwell therein.Isaiah 44:13 · קָו֒The carpenter stretcheth out [his] rule; he marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house.Jeremiah 31:39 · קָ֤וAnd the measuring line shall yet go forth over against it upon the hill Gareb, and shall compass about to Goath.Lamentations 2:8 · קָ֔וThe LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.Zechariah 1:16 · וְקָ֥וTherefore thus saith the LORD; I am returned to Jerusalem with mercies: my house shall be built in it, saith the LORD of hosts, and a line shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem.