Strong’s H594 · Hebrew
אֲנָךְ
ʼănâk · an-awk'
Origin probably from an unused root meaning to be narrow;
Meaning according to most a plumb-line, and to others a hook
In the King James Version plumb-line
In 2 verses of the King James Version
- Amos 7:7Thus he shewed me: and, behold, the Lord stood upon a wall made by a plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand.
- Amos 7:8And the LORD said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A plumbline. Then said the Lord, Behold, I will set a plumbline in the midst of my people Israel: I will not again pass by them any more:
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.