Line

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LINE.—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). Psa_19:4 their line is gone out through all the earth’ has been variously interpreted. The LXX [Note: Septuagint.] , taking the line to be a resonant cord, rendered by phthonggos—‘a musical sound,’ and St. Paul quotes that version in Rom_10:18 (EV [Note: English Version.] ‘sound’). More probably, however, the idea is still that of a measuring line. Cf. Perowne (Psalms, in toc.), who gives ‘line or boundary’—‘as the heavens seems to measure and mark out the earth (whence the term horizon or boundary).’ 2. hebhel, a rope or cord, esp. a measuring cord used in measuring and dividing land (cf. Psa_78:55, Amo_7:17, Zec_2:1). ‘The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places’ (Psa_16:6) alludes to the marking out of plots of land with a measuring cord. 3. tiqwâh (fr. the same root as qaw) is used of the cord of scarlet thread that Rahab bound in the window (Jos_2:18; Jos_2:21). 4. chût, properly a sewing-thread, only in 1Ki_7:15; 1Ki_7:5. pâthîl, a string or cord, only in Eze_40:3; Eze_40:6. seredh in Isa_44:13 is misrendered ‘line,’ for which RV [Note: Revised Version.] gives ‘pencil,’ RVm [Note: Revised Version margin.] ‘red ochre.’ 7. In NT ‘line’ occurs only in AV [Note: Authorized Version.] of 2Co_10:18. The Gr. word is kanôn, a measuring rod (AVm [Note: Authorized Version margin.] ‘rule,’ RV [Note: Revised Version.] ‘province,’ RVm [Note: Revised Version margin.] ‘limit’), and so, figuratively, a rule. Probably the Apostle’s idea is that of a measuring line, as defining the boundary between his own province and another’s.
J. C. Lambert.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909


lı̄n (קו, ḳaw, חבל, ḥēbhel): Usually of a measuring line, as Jer_31:39; Eze_47:3; Zec_1:16 (ḳaw); Psa_78:55; Amo_7:17; Zec_2:1 (ḥēbhel). Other Hebrew words mean simply a cord or thread (Jos_2:18, Jos_2:21; 1Ki_7:15; Eze_40:3). In Psa_19:4 (ḳaw, ?Their line is gone out through all the earth?), the reference is probably still to measurement (the heaven as spanning and bounding the earth), though the Septuagint, followed by Rom_10:18, takes it as meaning a musical cord φθόγγος, phthóggos). The ?line,? as measure, suggests rule of conduct (Isa_28:10). For ?line? in Isa_44:13, the Revised Version (British and American) reads ?pencil,? margin ?red ochre? (seredh), and in 2Co_10:16, ?province,? margin ?limit? (kanṓn). See also MEASURING LINE; WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.


Line
(represented by the following terms in the original: חֶבֶל, che'bel, a measuring-line, 2Sa_8:2; Amo_7:17; hence a portion as divided out by a line, Psa_16:6; elsewhere “cord," "portion," etc. קָוּ or קִו, kav, a measuring-line, Isa_34:17; Eze_47:3; either for construction, Job_38:5; Isa_44:13; Jer_31:39; Zec_1:16, or for destruction, 2Ki_21:13; Lam_2:8; Isa_34:11; metaph., a rule or norm, Isa_28:17; Isa_28:10; Isa_28:13; like the Gr. κανών, 2Co_10:13; 2Co_10:15-16; Gal_6:16; Php_3:16; also the rim, e.g. of a laver, 1Ki_7:23; 2Ch_4:2; or string of a musical instrument, put for sound, q.d. accord, Psa_19:4; where Sept. ὁ φθόγγος, and so Rom_10:18, Vulg. sonus; once, strength, Isa_18:2, where "a nation meted out" should be rendered a most mighty nation: in three of the above passages, 1Ki_7:23; Jer_31:39; Zec_1:16, the text reads קֶוֶה, ke'veh, of the same import; and in Jos_2:18; Jos_2:21, occurs תַּקְוָה, tikvah', a cord, from the same root. Other terms less proper are: חוּט, chut, a thread, for measuring a circumference, 1Ki_7:15; "fillets," Jer_52:21; elsewhere generally a "thread." פָּתַיל, pathil', a cord, for measuring length, Eze_40:3; elsewhere a "thread," "lace," etc., especially the string for suspending the signet-ring in the bosom, rendered "bracelets" in Gen_38:18; Gen_38:25. שֶׂרֶד, se'red, the awl or stylus with which an artist graves the sketch of a figure in outline, to be afterwards sculptured in full, Isa_44:13). There can be little doubt that the Hebrews acquired the art of measuring land from the ancient Egyptians, with whom it was early prevalent (Wilkinson's Anc. Egypt. 2:256). In Jos_18:9 we read, "And the men went out and passed through the land, and described it by cities into seven parts in a book, and came again to Joshua to the host at Shiloh." These circumstances clearly indicate that a survey of the whole country was made, and the results entered carefully in a book (see Kitto's Daily Bible Illust. ad loc.). This appears to be the earliest example of a topographical survey on record, and it proves that there must have been some knowledge of mensuration among the Hebrews, as is moreover evinced by the other topographical details in the book of Joshua.

CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.





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