Reference: Hook, Hooks
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Hook, Hooks.
Various kinds of hooks are noticed in the Bible, of which the following are the most important:
1. Fishing hooks.
; Habb 1:15
2. A ring, such as in our country is placed through the nose of a bull, and similarly used in the East for leading about lions --
where the Authorized Version has "with chains --camels and other animals. Called "thorn" in
A similar method was adopted for leading prisoners.
3. The hooks of the pillars of the tabernacle.
ff.; Exod 38:13 ff.
4. A vinedressers pruning-hook.
Isa 2:4; 18:5; Mic 4:3; Joe 3:10
5. A flesh-hook for getting up the joints of meat out of the boiling-pot.
6. Probably "hooks" used for the purpose of hanging up animals to flay them.
See Verses Found in Dictionary
Hang it on four gold-plated posts of acacia wood that have gold hooks [and that stand] on four silver bases.
Make five posts of acacia wood for the screen and overlay them with gold; their hooks are to be gold, and you are to cast five bronze bases for them.
Make its pots for removing ashes, and its shovels, basins, meat forks, and firepans; make all its utensils of bronze.
There are to be 20 posts and 20 bronze bases. The hooks and bands of the posts must be silver.
So He brought against them the military commanders of the king of Assyria. They captured Manasseh with hooks, bound him with bronze [shackles], and took him to Babylon.
He will settle disputes among the nations and provide arbitration for many peoples. They will turn their swords into plows and their spears into pruning knives. Nations will not take up the sword against [other] nations, and they will never again train for war.
For before the harvest, when the blossoming is over and the blossom becomes a ripening grape, He will cut off the shoots with a pruning knife, and tear away and remove the branches.
Then the fishermen will mourn. All those who cast hooks into the Nile will lament, and those who spread nets on the water will shrivel up.
When the nations heard about him, he was caught in their pit. Then they led him away with hooks to the land of Egypt.
There were three-inch hooks fastened all around the inside of the room, and the flesh of the offering was to be laid on the tables.
Hammer your plowshares into swords and your pruning knives into spears. Let even the weakling say: I am a warrior.
He will settle disputes among many peoples and provide arbitration for strong nations that are far away. They will beat their swords into plows, and their spears into pruning knives. Nation will not take up the sword against nation, and they will never again train for war.