H8505 תָּכַן
tâkan — to balance, i.e. measure out (by weight or dimension); figuratively, arrange, equalize, through the idea of levelling (ment. estimate, test)
KJV: bear up, direct, be (un-)equal, mete, ponder, tell, weigh.
Occurs 18 times. Every verse with this word
Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [תָּכַן] vb. regulate, measure, estimate
- Qal estimate
- Niph.
- 1 by him are actions estimated.
- 2 be adjusted to the standard, i.e. right, equitable
- Pi. mete out
- Pu. the silver which was measured out.
Where it occurs
- 1 Samuel 2:3 — “Don’t keep talking so exceedingly proudly. Don’t let arrogance come out of your mouth, for the LORD is a God of…
- 2 Kings 12:12 — They gave the money that was weighed out into the hands of those who did the work, who had the oversight of the LORD’s…
- Isaiah 40:12 — Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and marked off the sky with his span, and calculated the dust of…
- Isaiah 40:13 — Who has directed the LORD’s Spirit, or has taught him as his counselor?
- Ezekiel 18:25 — “Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not equal.’ Hear now, house of Israel: Is my way not equal? Aren’t your ways…
- Ezekiel 18:29 — Yet the house of Israel says, ‘The way of the Lord is not fair.’ House of Israel, aren’t my ways fair? Aren’t your ways…
- Ezekiel 33:17 — “‘Yet the children of your people say, “The way of the Lord is not fair;” but as for them, their way is not fair.
- Ezekiel 33:20 — Yet you say, “The way of the Lord is not fair.” House of Israel, I will judge every one of you after his ways.’”
- Psalms 75:4 — The earth and all its inhabitants quake. I firmly hold its pillars. Selah.
- Proverbs 16:2 — All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes, but the LORD weighs the motives.