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 pins of the habitation and the pins of the court with their boards;
and the hangings of the court with his pillars and sockets, and the hanging to the court gate, his boards and pins, and all the ordinance that serveth to the habitation of the tabernacle of witness,
And they said, "We will not hurt thee, save only bind thee and deliver thee unto their hands: But we will not kill thee." And so they bound him with two new cords and brought him up from the rock.
And he beat the Moabites and measured them with a line, making them lie along the earth; so that he brought two parts of them to death, and let one part live. And so the Moabites became David's servants, and paid tribute.
Is not their dignity taken away with them? They shall die - and not in wisdom.'
Let us break their bonds asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
He cast out the heathen before them, caused their land to be divided among them for a heritage, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
But the righteous LORD hath hewn the snares of the ungodly in pieces.
The wickedness of the ungodly shall catch himself, and with the snares of his own sins shall he be trapped.
One may be overcome, but two may make resistance: A threefold cable is not lightly broken.
Woe be unto vain persons, that draw wickedness unto them with cords of vanity; and sin, as it were with a cart rope.
Woe be unto vain persons, that draw wickedness unto them with cords of vanity; and sin, as it were with a cart rope.
{Khet} The LORD thought to break down the walls of the daughter Zion; he spread out his line, and drew not in his hand, till he had destroyed them. Therefore mourn the turrets and the broken walls together.
I led them with cords of friendship, and with bands of love. I was even he, that laid the yoke upon their necks. I gave them their fodder myself,
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 inhabiters of the hill country, from Lebanon unto the hot waters even all the Sidonians. I will cast them out from before the children of Israel, and see that thou in any wise divide it by lot unto the children of Israel to inherit, as I have commanded thee.
all the inhabiters of the hill country, from Lebanon unto the hot waters even all the Sidonians. I will cast them out from before the children of Israel, and see that thou in any wise divide it by lot unto the children of Israel to inherit, as I have commanded thee.
Is not their dignity taken away with them? They shall die - and not in wisdom.'
Is not their dignity taken away with them? They shall die - and not in wisdom.'
My honor increased more and more, and my bow was ever the stronger in my hand.
My honor increased more and more, and my bow was ever the stronger in my hand.
for the LORD hath opened his quiver: he hath hit me, and put a bridle in my mouth.
for the LORD hath opened his quiver: he hath hit me, and put a bridle in my mouth.
The lot is fallen unto me in fair ground; yea I have a goodly heritage.
The lot is fallen unto me in fair ground; yea I have a goodly heritage.
Before the silver lace be taken away, and or the golden band be broken; or the pot be broken at the well, and the wheel upon the cistern;
Before the silver lace be taken away, and or the golden band be broken; or the pot be broken at the well, and the wheel upon the cistern;
Make thy tent wider, and spread out the hangings of thine habitation: spare not, lay forth thy cords, and make fast thy stakes:
Make thy tent wider, and spread out the hangings of thine habitation: spare not, lay forth thy cords, and make fast thy stakes:
I led them with cords of friendship, and with bands of love. I was even he, that laid the yoke upon their necks. I gave them their fodder myself,
I led them with cords of friendship, and with bands of love. I was even he, that laid the yoke upon their necks. I gave them their fodder myself,
Nevertheless there shall be no man to divide thee thy portion in the congregation of the LORD.
Nevertheless there shall be no man to divide thee thy portion in the congregation of the LORD.
We know surely if our earthy mansion wherein we now dwell were destroyed, that we have a building ordained of God, a habitation not made with hands, but eternal in heaven:
We know surely if our earthy mansion wherein we now dwell were destroyed, that we have a building ordained of God, a habitation not made with hands, but eternal in heaven:
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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Such as labour upon flax and silk, shall come to poverty, and they also that weave fine works.
And he made a scourge of small cords, and drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and oxen, and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables.
Then the soldiers cut off the rope of the boat, and let it fall away.