Lexical Definition

‎אֲנָךְ‎ ʼănâk (an-awk') plumbline ^H:N-M
probably from an unused root meaning to be narrow

plumb-line

• according to most a plumb-line, and to others a hook

1) plummet, plumb, lead-weight

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎אֲנָךְ‎ noun [masculine] plummet (compare words in cognate languages for lead, tin, etymology dubious, perhaps foreign; Arabic (see Frä¹⁵³) Syriac Mandean ‎אנכא‎, Assyrian anâku Lyon^{Sargontexte 92}; see Lag^{Arm. Stud. § 103} compare Id.^{BN 175}) — ‎אֲנָ֑ךְ‎ except once Amos 7:8 — plummet Amos 7:7; Amos 7:8 (twice in verse); ‎׳‎‎חוֺמַת א‎, i.e. a vertical wall vAmos 7:7.

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