Reference: Cord
Easton
(1) frequently used in its proper sense, for fastening a tent (Ex 35:18; 39:40), yoking animals to a cart (Isa 5:18), binding prisoners (Jg 15:13; Ps 2:3; 129:4), and measuring ground (2Sa 8:2; Ps 78:55). Figuratively, death is spoken of as the giving way of the tent-cord (Job 4:21. "Is not their tent-cord plucked up?" R.V.). To gird one's self with a cord was a token of sorrow and humiliation. To stretch a line over a city meant to level it with the ground (La 2:8). The "cords of sin" are the consequences or fruits of sin (Pr 5:22). A "threefold cord" is a symbol of union (Ec 4:12). The "cords of a man" (Ho 11:4) means that men employ, in inducing each other, methods such as are suitable to men, and not "cords" such as oxen are led by. Isaiah (Isa 5:18) says, "Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope." This verse is thus given in the Chaldee paraphrase: "Woe to those who begin to sin by little and little, drawing sin by cords of vanity: these sins grow and increase till they are strong and are like a cart rope." This may be the true meaning. The wicked at first draw sin with a slender cord; but by-and-by their sins increase, and they are drawn after them by a cart rope. Henderson in his commentary says: "The meaning is that the persons described were not satisfied with ordinary modes of provoking the Deity, and the consequent ordinary approach of his vengeance, but, as it were, yoked themselves in the harness of iniquity, and, putting forth all their strength, drew down upon themselves, with accelerated speed, the load of punishment which their sins deserved."
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the hangings of the court, its pillars, and its bases, and the screen for the gate of the court, its cords, and its pegs; and all the utensils for the service of the tabernacle, for the tent of meeting;
They said to him, "No; we will only bind you and give you into their hands. We will surely not kill you." So they bound him with two new ropes and brought him up from the rock.
And he defeated Moab and he measured them with a line, making them lie down on the ground. Two lines he measured to be put to death, and one full line to be spared. And the Moabites became servants to David and brought tribute.
Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them, do they not die, and that without wisdom?'
"Let us burst their bonds apart and cast away their cords from us."
He drove out nations before them; he apportioned them for a possession and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
The LORD is righteous; he has cut the cords of the wicked.
The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him, and he is held fast in the cords of his sin.
And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him--a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, who draw sin as with cart ropes,
Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, who draw sin as with cart ropes,
The LORD determined to lay in ruins the wall of the daughter of Zion; he stretched out the measuring line; he did not restrain his hand from destroying; he caused rampart and wall to lament; they languished together.
I led them with cords of kindness, with the bands of love, and I became to them as one who eases the yoke on their jaws, and I bent down to them and fed them.
Fausets
Lengthen thy cords, strengthen thy stakes (Isa 54:2); an image from a tent (appropriate, as the Israelite church was symbolized by the tabernacle); it, when enlarged, needs at once longer cords and stronger stakes. The church must not merely seek new converts, but strengthen in faith existing members. So in Job 4:21, "is not their cord in them unstrung?" or "snapped," so that their earthly tabernacle comes down (2Co 5:1). In Ec 12:6, "or ever the silver cord be loosed or the golden bowl be broken," the meaning is, before life's gilded lamp suspended from on high by the cord of intertwined silk and silver, be broken by the snapping of the cord.
The golden bowl may hint at the skull; "the silver cord," the spinal marrow attached to the brain, white and precious as silver. "He hath loosed my cord" (Job 30:11) is animate from a bow unstrung (contrast Job 29:20). In Ho 11:4, "I drew them with cords of a man," i.e., with human methods, as a father would draw his child by leading strings. In Mic 2:5, "cast a cord by lot" i.e. have any measured out possession, cords being used for measurement (Jos 13:6; Ps 16:6).
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all the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephoth-maim, even all the Sidonians. I myself will drive them out from before the people of Israel. Only allot the land to Israel for an inheritance, as I have commanded you.
all the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephoth-maim, even all the Sidonians. I myself will drive them out from before the people of Israel. Only allot the land to Israel for an inheritance, as I have commanded you.
Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them, do they not die, and that without wisdom?'
Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them, do they not die, and that without wisdom?'
my glory fresh with me, and my bow ever new in my hand.'
my glory fresh with me, and my bow ever new in my hand.'
Because God has loosed my cord and humbled me, they have cast off restraint in my presence.
Because God has loosed my cord and humbled me, they have cast off restraint in my presence.
The lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; indeed, I have a beautiful inheritance.
The lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; indeed, I have a beautiful inheritance.
before the silver cord is snapped, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is shattered at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern,
before the silver cord is snapped, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is shattered at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern,
"Enlarge the place of your tent, and let the curtains of your habitations be stretched out; do not hold back; lengthen your cords and strengthen your stakes.
"Enlarge the place of your tent, and let the curtains of your habitations be stretched out; do not hold back; lengthen your cords and strengthen your stakes.
I led them with cords of kindness, with the bands of love, and I became to them as one who eases the yoke on their jaws, and I bent down to them and fed them.
I led them with cords of kindness, with the bands of love, and I became to them as one who eases the yoke on their jaws, and I bent down to them and fed them.
Therefore you will have none to cast the line by lot in the assembly of the LORD.
Therefore you will have none to cast the line by lot in the assembly of the LORD.
For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
Smith
Cord.
The materials of which cord was made varied according to the strength required; the strongest rope was probably made of strips of camel hide, as still used by the Bedouins. The finer sorts were made of flax,
and probably of reeds and rushes. In the New Testament the term is applied to the whip which our Saviour made,
Joh 2:15
and to the ropes of a ship.
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The workers in combed flax will be in despair, and the weavers of white cotton.
And making a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and oxen. And he poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables.
Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the ship's boat and let it go.