WEIGHT (teat), Among the terms employed in the original Scriptures are the following: 1. Eh'ben (Heb. I), a stone, a weight of a bal ance. The Orientals often made use of stones for weights (Lev. xix:36; Dem. xxv:15; etc.).
2. J1fish-kawr (Heb. weighing, Ezra viii:34). it is used for the weight numerically (Gen. xxiv:22; Lev. xix:35; Num. vii:t3, etc.).
3. Peh'les (Heb.*),, Prov. xvi:11; "balance," (Is. xl :12), a steelyard.
4. In the New Testament "weight" is mentioned only once in its literal sense, and is the rendering of Gr. raXarriaios tolentlike in weight (Rev. xvi:21). The Israelites were commanded to have "just weights" (Lev. 36 ; Deut. xxv:i5; Prov. xx :to, 23), which is a condemnation of the habit of carrying two sets of weights. The prophet Micah (vi :it) denounces "the bag of deceitful weights," referring to the stone or lead weights which were carried in a bag. Figurative. (I) Job, in speaking of the fixed laws ordained by Jehovah for the duration of the world, says: "He appointed the weight for the winds" (xxviii :25), i. e., the measure of its force or feebleness. (2) To "cat bread by weight" (Ezek. 16) denotes extreme poverty or
scarcity of food. (3) A weight of glory, of which Paul speaks (2 Cor. iv :t7), is opposed to the lightness of the evils of this life. The troubles we endure are really of no more weight than a feather, or of no weight at all, if compared to the weight or intenseness of that glory, which shall be here after a compensation for them. In addition to this, it is probable the Apostle had in view the double meaning of the Hebrew word kab4d, which signifies not only weight, but glory; glory, that is, splendor, in this world the lightest thing in na ture ; but in the other world it may be real, at once substantial and radiant. (4) The author of the Epistle to the Hebrews (xii :I) urges his readers to "lay aside every weight," (Gr. 15.0cos, ong' kos). This word means anything prominent, an encumbrance; it is used figuratively for whatever disposition (as worldly-mindedness, indifference or sensuality) bows the soul down to the ground, and consequently hinders it in running its spir itual race.