# קַו (qav)

Israeli respelling: qav. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H6957. 14 Old Testament occurrences.

a cord (as connecting), especially formeasuring; figuratively, a rule; also a rim, a musical string or accord

King James renderings: line. Compare H6978 (קַו־קַו)lemma קַו־קַי yod, corrected to קַו־קַו.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/qav-h6957

## Occurrences

- [2 Kings 21:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/21/13) — And 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 di…
- [2 Chronicles 4:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/4/2) — Also 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 cubit…
- [Job 38:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/38/5) — Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?
- [Psalms 19:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/19/4) — Their 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/28/10) — For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
- [Isaiah 28:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/28/13) — But 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…
- [Isaiah 28:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/28/17) — Judgment 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 sh…
- [Isaiah 34:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/34/11) — 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…
- [Isaiah 34:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/34/17) — And 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 gener…
- [Isaiah 44:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/44/13) — The 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, an…
- [Jeremiah 31:39](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/31/39) — And the measuring line shall yet go forth over against it upon the hill Gareb, and shall compass about to Goath.
- [Lamentations 2:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/2/8) — The 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 destr…
- [Ezekiel 47:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/47/3) — And when the man that had the line in his hand went forth eastward, he measured a thousand cubits, and he brought me through the waters; th…
- [Zechariah 1:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/1/16) — Therefore 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…