Scales
<< Scale-like
Scales

Bible Thesaurus

Scales (33 Occurrences)
... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia SCALES. skalz (1) qasqeseth "fish-scales";
(2) meghinnah, maghen, "scales of the crocodile"; (3) lepis ...
biblethesaurus.org/s/scales.htm - 18k

Fins (5 Occurrences)
... Leviticus 11:9 "'These you may eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has fins
and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, that you may eat. ...
biblethesaurus.org/f/fins.htm - 7k

Balance (12 Occurrences)
... 3. (n.) Equipoise between the weights in opposite scales. ... 19. (vi) To have equal
weight on each side; to be in equipoise; as, the scales balance. 20. ...
biblethesaurus.org/b/balance.htm - 18k

Scaly (1 Occurrence)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (a.) Covered or abounding with scales; as, a
scaly fish. 2. (a.) Resembling scales, laminae, or layers. ...
biblethesaurus.org/s/scaly.htm - 7k

Scaled (1 Occurrence)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (imp. & pp) of Scale. 2. (a.) Covered with scales,
or scale like structures; -- said of a fish, a reptile, a moth, etc. ...
biblethesaurus.org/s/scaled.htm - 7k

Dishonest (33 Occurrences)
... (YLT). Proverbs 11:1 Scales of deceit are hated by the Lord, but a true weight is
his delight. ... (DBY YLT). Hosea 12:7 A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand. ...
biblethesaurus.org/d/dishonest.htm - 16k

Detestable (121 Occurrences)
... in the Scriptures to that which is ceremonially unclean (Leviticus 7:21), creatures
forbidden as food, as water animals without fins or scales in Leviticus 11 ...
biblethesaurus.org/d/detestable.htm - 39k

Mail (11 Occurrences)
... "a corselet of scales," a cuirass formed of ... 7. (n.) Any hard protective covering
of an animal, as the scales and plates of reptiles, shell of a lobster, etc. ...
biblethesaurus.org/m/mail.htm - 11k

Scale (38 Occurrences)
... 8. (n.) A small appendage like a rudimentary leaf, resembling the scales of a fish
in form, and often in arrangement; as, the scale of a bud, of a pine cone ...
biblethesaurus.org/s/scale.htm - 22k

Measured (91 Occurrences)
... Binnui, the Levites; (BBE). Job 6:2 If only my passion might be measured,
and put into the scales against my trouble! (BBE). Job 7:4 ...
biblethesaurus.org/m/measured.htm - 35k

Rivers (81 Occurrences)
... Leviticus 11:9 "'These you may eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has fins
and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, that you may eat. ...
biblethesaurus.org/r/rivers.htm - 32k

Jaws (12 Occurrences)
... Ezekiel 29:4 I will put hooks in your jaws, and I will make the fish of your rivers
stick to your scales; and I will bring you up out of the midst of your ...
biblethesaurus.org/j/jaws.htm - 10k

Flake
... A better translation would perhaps be: "the horny epidermic scales" of the body,
differentiated from the bony dermal scutes of the back (Hebrew "channels of ...
biblethesaurus.org/f/flake.htm - 7k

Rust (7 Occurrences)
... The copper of the caldron oxidizes and scales off in black or brownish scales, or
rust. ios, was used in Greek to denote the corroding of metals. ...
biblethesaurus.org/r/rust.htm - 11k

Eyes (6285 Occurrences)
... The "scales" mentioned in Acts 9:18 were not material, but his sight was
restored as if (hosei) scales had fallen from his eyes. ...
biblethesaurus.org/e/eyes.htm - 11k

Blindness (7 Occurrences)
... light. The "scales" mentioned were not material but in the restoration of
his sight it seemed as if scales had fallen from his eyes. ...
biblethesaurus.org/b/blindness.htm - 19k

Brooks (28 Occurrences)
... Leviticus 11:9 This ye do eat of all which 'are' in the waters; any one that hath
fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the brooks, them ye do eat ...
biblethesaurus.org/b/brooks.htm - 14k

Streams (80 Occurrences)
... Leviticus 11:9 "'These you may eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has fins
and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, that you may eat. ...
biblethesaurus.org/s/streams.htm - 30k

Sticking (2 Occurrences)
... Ezekiel 29:4 And I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy
rivers to stick unto thy scales; and I will bring thee up out of the midst of ...
biblethesaurus.org/s/sticking.htm - 7k

Seas (40 Occurrences)
... Leviticus 11:9 "'These you may eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has fins
and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, that you may eat. ...
biblethesaurus.org/s/seas.htm - 18k

Diseases (38 Occurrences)
... The "scales" mentioned in Acts 9:18 were not material, but his sight was
restored as if (hosei) scales had fallen from his eyes. ...
biblethesaurus.org/d/diseases.htm - 25k

Floods (37 Occurrences)
... Ezekiel 29:4 And I have put hooks in thy jaws, And I have caused the fish of thy
floods to cleave to thy scales, And I have caused thee to come up from the ...
biblethesaurus.org/f/floods.htm - 17k

Weights (14 Occurrences)
... (WEB NIV). Proverbs 16:11 Honest balances and scales are Yahweh's; all the weights
in the bag are his work. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV). ...
biblethesaurus.org/w/weights.htm - 21k

Stamp (25 Occurrences)
... ears, saying, Come and see. And I saw a black horse; and he who was seated
on it had scales in his hand. (BBE). Revelation 6:7 And ...
biblethesaurus.org/s/stamp.htm - 16k

Cling (35 Occurrences)
... Ezekiel 29:4 I will put hooks in your jaws, and I will make the fish of your rivers
stick to your scales; and I will bring you up out of the midst of your ...
biblethesaurus.org/c/cling.htm - 16k

Fish (66 Occurrences)
... in the water. 4. (n.) An oviparous, vertebrate animal usually having fins
and a covering scales or plates. It breathes by means ...
biblethesaurus.org/f/fish.htm - 38k

Pull (32 Occurrences)
... Ezekiel 29:4 I will put hooks in your jaws, and I will make the fish of your rivers
stick to your scales; and I will bring you up out of the midst of your ...
biblethesaurus.org/p/pull.htm - 17k

Creatures (83 Occurrences)
... Leviticus 11:9 "'These you may eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has fins
and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, that you may eat. ...
biblethesaurus.org/c/creatures.htm - 31k

Oak (22 Occurrences)
... It is distinguished by its large sessile acorns with hemispherical cups covered
with long, narrow, almost bristly, scales, giving them a mossy aspect. ...
biblethesaurus.org/o/oak.htm - 33k

Stick (47 Occurrences)
... Ezekiel 29:4 I will put hooks in your jaws, and I will make the fish of your rivers
stick to your scales; and I will bring you up out of the midst of your ...
biblethesaurus.org/s/stick.htm - 23k

Hooks (41 Occurrences)
... Ezekiel 29:4 I will put hooks in your jaws, and I will make the fish of your rivers
stick to your scales; and I will bring you up out of the midst of your ...
biblethesaurus.org/h/hooks.htm - 19k

Cleave (52 Occurrences)
... Ezekiel 29:4 And I have put hooks in thy jaws, And I have caused the fish of thy
floods to cleave to thy scales, And I have caused thee to come up from the ...
biblethesaurus.org/c/cleave.htm - 25k

Waters (386 Occurrences)
... Leviticus 11:9 "'These you may eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has fins
and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, that you may eat. ...
biblethesaurus.org/w/waters.htm - 42k

Bag (52 Occurrences)
... Proverbs 16:11 Honest balances and scales are Yahweh's; all the weights in the
bag are his work. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV). ...
biblethesaurus.org/b/bag.htm - 29k

Whatsoever (167 Occurrences)
... Leviticus 11:9 These shall ye eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath
fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, them shall ye ...
biblethesaurus.org/w/whatsoever.htm - 35k

Key (8 Occurrences)
... sharp four, flat seven, etc. Scales and tunes of every variety are made
from the tones of a key. 14. (n.) The fundamental tone of ...
biblethesaurus.org/k/key.htm - 14k

Naked (56 Occurrences)
... or stem; bare, or not covered by the customary parts, as a flower without a perianth,
a stem without leaves, seeds without a pericarp, buds without bud scales. ...
biblethesaurus.org/n/naked.htm - 29k

Undone (20 Occurrences)
... ears, saying, Come and see. And I saw a black horse; and he who was seated
on it had scales in his hand. (BBE). Revelation 6:7 And ...
biblethesaurus.org/u/undone.htm - 12k

Unequal (5 Occurrences)
... to the Lord. (BBE). Proverbs 20:23 Unequal weights are disgusting to the
Lord, and false scales are not good. (BBE). Ezekiel 18:25 ...
biblethesaurus.org/u/unequal.htm - 8k

Uses (15 Occurrences)
... have been in you to shed blood. (See NIV). Hosea 12:7 A merchant has dishonest
scales in his hand. He loves to defraud. (See NIV). ...
biblethesaurus.org/u/uses.htm - 10k

Leprosy (51 Occurrences)
... and on the palms, gradually spreading over the body, bleaching the hair white wherever
they appear, crusting the affected parts with white scales, and causing ...
biblethesaurus.org/l/leprosy.htm - 37k

Leviathan (5 Occurrences)
... and "Leviathan." The points in the description which may well apply to the crocodile
are the great invulnerability, the strong and close scales, the limbs and ...
biblethesaurus.org/l/leviathan.htm - 10k

Gold-worker (6 Occurrences)
... Isaiah 46:6 As for those who take gold out of a bag, and put silver in the scales,
they give payment to a gold-worker, to make it into a god; they go down on ...
biblethesaurus.org/g/gold-worker.htm - 8k

Grasped (11 Occurrences)
... hand, and meted out the heavens with his span, and grasped the dust of the earth
in a measure, and weighed the mountains in a balance, and the hills in scales? ...
biblethesaurus.org/g/grasped.htm - 9k

Wax (32 Occurrences)
... It is first excreted, from a row of pouches along their sides, in the form of scales,
which, being masticated and mixed with saliva, become whitened and ...
biblethesaurus.org/w/wax.htm - 18k

Watches (23 Occurrences)
... (See RSV NIV). Proverbs 5:21 For a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord,
and he puts all his goings in the scales. (See NAS RSV). ...
biblethesaurus.org/w/watches.htm - 14k

Fingers (22 Occurrences)
... who has got together the dust of the earth in a measure? who has taken the weight
of the mountains, or put the hills into the scales? (BBE). ...
biblethesaurus.org/f/fingers.htm - 13k

Forthwith (30 Occurrences)
... (KJV WBS). Acts 9:18 And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales:
and he received sight forthwith, and arose, and was baptized. (KJV WBS). ...
biblethesaurus.org/f/forthwith.htm - 15k

Tetter (1 Occurrence)
... This is described by Gorraeus as an eruption arising from a diseased state of
the system without roughness of skin, scales or ulceration. ...
biblethesaurus.org/t/tetter.htm - 7k

Teeming (18 Occurrences)
... Leviticus 11:10 and any one that hath not fins and scales in the seas, and in the
brooks, of any teeming creature of the waters, and of any creature which ...
biblethesaurus.org/t/teeming.htm - 12k

Tortoise (1 Occurrence)
... This lizard is about 18 inches long, its relatively smooth body being terminated
with a great tail armed with rings of spiny scales. ...
biblethesaurus.org/t/tortoise.htm - 9k

Turn (963 Occurrences)
... 19. (vi) To be nauseated; -- said of the stomach. 20. (vi) To become inclined
in the other direction; -- said of scales. 21. (vi ...
biblethesaurus.org/t/turn.htm - 41k

Things (10975 Occurrences)
... in the Scriptures to that which is ceremonially unclean (Leviticus 7:21), creatures
forbidden as food, as water animals without fins or scales in Leviticus 11 ...
biblethesaurus.org/t/things.htm - 10k

Regained (6 Occurrences)
... (WEY NAS). Acts 9:18 Immediately something like scales fell from his eyes, and
he received his sight. He arose and was baptized. (See NAS RSV). ...
biblethesaurus.org/r/regained.htm - 8k

Enclosed (16 Occurrences)
... who has got together the dust of the earth in a measure? who has taken the weight
of the mountains, or put the hills into the scales? (See RSV). ...
biblethesaurus.org/e/enclosed.htm - 10k

Dropped (52 Occurrences)
... (BBE). Acts 9:18 Instantly there dropped from his eyes what seemed to be scales,
and he could see once more. Upon this he rose and received baptism; (WEY). ...
biblethesaurus.org/d/dropped.htm - 22k

Detests (7 Occurrences)
... the Lord. (See NIV). Proverbs 20:23 Yahweh detests differing weights, and
dishonest scales are not pleasing. (WEB NIV). Proverbs 29 ...
biblethesaurus.org/d/detests.htm - 8k

Differing (5 Occurrences)
... abomination to Yahweh. (WEB NAS NIV). Proverbs 20:23 Yahweh detests differing
weights, and dishonest scales are not pleasing. (WEB NAS NIV). ...
biblethesaurus.org/d/differing.htm - 7k

Defraud (11 Occurrences)
... Lord doesn't approve. (See NAS). Hosea 12:7 A merchant has dishonest scales
in his hand. He loves to defraud. (WEB NIV). Micah 2:2 ...
biblethesaurus.org/d/defraud.htm - 9k

Detest (15 Occurrences)
... Leviticus 11:10 And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers,
of all that swarm in the waters, and of all the living creatures that are ...
biblethesaurus.org/d/detest.htm - 10k

Meted (8 Occurrences)
... the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the
dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the ...
biblethesaurus.org/m/meted.htm - 8k

Merchant (15 Occurrences)
... chariots. (KJV WBS YLT). Hosea 12:7 A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand.
He loves to defraud. (WEB KJV DBY WBS NAS NIV). Zephaniah ...
biblethesaurus.org/m/merchant.htm - 13k

Presently (25 Occurrences)
... Acts 9:18 And immediately there fell from his eyes as it were scales, he saw
again also presently, and having risen, was baptized, (YLT). ...
biblethesaurus.org/p/presently.htm - 14k

Purse (7 Occurrences)
... Isaiah 46:6 As for those who take gold out of a bag, and put silver in the scales,
they give payment to a gold-worker, to make it into a god; they go down on ...
biblethesaurus.org/p/purse.htm - 10k

Beam (17 Occurrences)
... more beam than another. 4. (n.) The bar of a balance, from the ends of
which the scales are suspended. 5. (n.) The principal stem ...
biblethesaurus.org/b/beam.htm - 17k

Brigandine (1 Occurrence)
... (n.) A coast of armor for the body, consisting of scales or plates, sometimes
overlapping each other, generally of metal, and sewed to linen or other material. ...
biblethesaurus.org/b/brigandine.htm - 7k

Balances (15 Occurrences)
... delight. (YLT). Proverbs 16:11 Honest balances and scales are Yahweh's; all
the weights in the bag are his work. (WEB YLT NIV). Proverbs ...
biblethesaurus.org/b/balances.htm - 10k

Comprehended (5 Occurrences)
... the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the
dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the ...
biblethesaurus.org/c/comprehended.htm - 8k

Cud (9 Occurrences)
... out that the clean animals have no upper teeth, that their horns are either forked,
or if not forked they are clear of splinters, notched with scales and round ...
biblethesaurus.org/c/cud.htm - 11k

Chew (5 Occurrences)
... out that the clean animals have no upper teeth, that their horns are either forked,
or if not forked they are clear of splinters, notched with scales and round ...
biblethesaurus.org/c/chew.htm - 9k

Calculated (3 Occurrences)
... the hollow of his hand, and marked off the sky with his span, and calculated the
dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the ...
biblethesaurus.org/c/calculated.htm - 7k

Corselet (2 Occurrences)
... 1 Samuel 17:5 And he had a helmet of bronze upon his head, and he was clothed with
a corselet of scales; and the weight of the corselet was five thousand ...
biblethesaurus.org/c/corselet.htm - 7k

Chaff (24 Occurrences)
... raillery. 5. (n.) The scales or bracts on the receptacle, which subtend each
flower in the heads of many Compositae, as the sunflower. 6 ...
biblethesaurus.org/c/chaff.htm - 18k

Chin (8 Occurrences)
... son of man, take a sharp sword, using it like a haircutter's blade, and making it
go over your head and the hair of your chin: and take scales for separating ...
biblethesaurus.org/c/chin.htm - 9k

Abhorrent (9 Occurrences)
... carcasses. (See NAS). Leviticus 11:12 Whatever has no fins nor scales in the
waters, that is an abomination to you. (See NAS). Leviticus ...
biblethesaurus.org/a/abhorrent.htm - 9k

Agree (24 Occurrences)
... 5. (vi) To be conformable; to resemble; to coincide; to correspond; as, the picture
does not agree with the original; the two scales agree exactly. ...
biblethesaurus.org/a/agree.htm - 16k

Atom (1 Occurrence)
... Isaiah 40:15 Behold, the nations are esteemed as a drop of the bucket, and as the
fine dust on the scales; behold, he taketh up the isles as an atom. (DBY). ...
biblethesaurus.org/a/atom.htm - 7k

Air (74 Occurrences)
... In Job 41:16 "air" renders ruach, "breath," "wind," "spirit." The scales of the
leviathan are so closely joined together that no air can penetrate. ...
biblethesaurus.org/a/air.htm - 34k

Singing (65 Occurrences)
... On the other hand, we cannot repeat too often that we are quite unable to identify
any intervals, scales, or tunes as having been used in ancient Israel. ...
biblethesaurus.org/s/singing.htm - 29k




<< Scale-like
Scales

Bible Thesaurus