קַו
qav · kav
a cord (as connecting), especially formeasuring; figuratively, a rule; also a rim, a musical string or accord
Lexicon
Derivation: or קָו; from H6960 (קָוָה) (compare H6961 (קָוֶה));
a cord (as connecting), especially formeasuring; figuratively, a rule; also a rim, a musical string or accord
- a cord (as connecting), especially formeasuring
- figuratively, a rule
- also, a rim, a musical string or accord
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: line. Compare H6978 (קַו־קַו)lemma קַו־קַי yod, corrected to קַו־קַו.
Letters
- קQof100
Picture: the back of the head, or the sun on the horizon
- Concrete
- back of the head · rising sun · circle
- Extended
- what is behind · the last · a cycle · to come around again
- וVav6
Picture: tent peg or hook
- Concrete
- nail · peg · hook
- Extended
- to fasten · to secure · to establish · and (joining)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
what comes behind, the returning cycle › to fasten and establish
What comes behind, the returning cycle that works to fasten and establish.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of קַו above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
21 occurrences · 21 OT · 0 NT · 19 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- line5 · 24%
- upon line4 · 19%
- and a line2 · 10%
- the line2 · 10%
- thereof; and a line1 · 5%
- their line1 · 5%
- to the line1 · 5%
- upon it the line1 · 5%
- it unto them by line1 · 5%
- his rule1 · 5%
- a line1 · 5%
- that had the line1 · 5%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.