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 with gold hooks on four posts of acacia wood overlaid with gold, set in four silver bases.
You are to make for the hanging five posts of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, and their hooks will be gold, and you are to cast five bronze bases for them.
You are to make its pots for the ashes, its shovels, its tossing bowls, its meat hooks, and its fire pans -- you are to make all its utensils of bronze.
with twenty posts and their twenty bronze bases, with the hooks of the posts and their bands of silver.
So the Lord brought against them the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria. They seized Manasseh, put hooks in his nose, bound him with bronze chains, and carried him away to Babylon.
He will judge disputes between nations; he will settle cases for many peoples. They will beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nations will not take up the sword against other nations, and they will no longer train for war.
For before the harvest, when the bud has sprouted, and the ripening fruit appears, he will cut off the unproductive shoots with pruning knives; he will prune the tendrils.
The fishermen will mourn and lament, all those who cast a fishhook into the river, and those who spread out a net on the water's surface will grieve.
The nations heard about him; he was trapped in their pit. They brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.
There were hooks three inches long, fastened in the house all around, and on the tables was the flesh of the offering.
Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears! Let the weak say, 'I too am a warrior!'
He will arbitrate between many peoples and settle disputes between many distant nations. They will beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nations will not use weapons against other nations, and they will no longer train for war.