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
And give it upon four acacia pillars spread over with gold: their pegs of gold upon four silver bases.
And make for the covering five acacia pillars, and spread them over with gold, their pegs gold: and cast for them five bases of brass.
And make pots for its ashes, and its shovels, and its vessels, and its flesh hooks, and its fire pans: and for all its vessels, thou shalt make brass.
And twenty pillars and their twenty brass bases: the pegs of the pillars and their joinings of silver.
And Jehovah will bring upon them the chiefs of the army which were to the king of Assur, and they will take Manasseh with hooks, and they will bind him with fetters and cause him to go to Babel.
Wilt thou put a rope in his nose? and wilt thou hollow out his jaw with a thorn?
Wilt thou put a rope in his nose? and wilt thou hollow out his jaw with a thorn?
And he judged between the nations, and he will decide for many peoples: and they shall beat down their swords to plough-shares and their spears to pruning-hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, and they shall no more learn war.
For before the harvest, when the flower was completed, and the sour grape shall be ripening in the flower, and he cut off the shoots with pruning-hooks, and cutting off he took away the tendrils.
And the fishermen groaned, and all casting the hook into the river mourned, and they spreading nets upon the face of the water, languished.
And the nations will hear concerning him; in their pit he was taken, and they will bring him with hooks to the land of Egypt
And stalls one hand-breadth set up in the house round about, round about: and upon the tables the flesh of the oblation.
Beat your plough-shares into swords, and your pruning-knives into spears: the weak shall say, I am strong.
And he judged between many peoples, and he admonished to strong nations even to far off; and they beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning-knives: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, and they shall no more learn war.