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
You are to hang it on four pillars of acacia overlaid with gold, which have hooks of gold, and are set on four sockets of silver.
You are to make five pillars of acacia for the screens and overlay them with gold. Their hooks shall be of gold, and you are to cast five bronze sockets for them."
You are to make pans for removing its ashes, shovels, bowls, forks, and fire-pans for it, and you are to make all its utensils of bronze.
It is to have 20 pillars, with 20 bronze sockets, and the hooks of the pillars and their bands are to be made of silver.
so the LORD brought in the army commanders who worked for the king of Assyria, who captured Manasseh with hooks, bound him in bronze chains, and took him off to Babylon.
He will judge between the nations, and will render verdicts for the benefit of many. "They will beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nations will not raise swords against nations, and they will not learn warfare anymore.
For before the harvest, when the season of budding is over, and sour grapes ripen into mature grapes, he cuts off the shoots with pruning knives, clearing away the spreading branches as he lops them off.
The fishermen will groan, and all who cast hooks into the Nile will lament; those who spread nets upon the water will become weaker and weaker.
The nations heard about him. He had become caught in their trap. They brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.
Double hooks, a single handbreadth in length, were installed all around in this portion of the temple area.
Beat your plow blades into swords, and your pruning knives into spears! Let the frail say, "I am strong!"
And he will judge among many people, rebuking strong nations far away; and they will reshape their swords as plowshares and their spears as pruning hooks. No nation will threaten another, nor will they train for war anymore.