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 pillars of acacia overlaid with gold. Their hooks should also be of gold, on four sockets of silver.
Make five pillars of acacia for the screen and overlay them with gold. Their hooks should also be of gold. Cast five sockets of bronze for them.
Make all the utensils for it out of copper: pots for taking away the altar's ashes, also shovels, bowls, forks, and incense burners.
Hang on them twenty posts set in twenty copper bases. The hooks and bands on the posts should be made of silver.
So Jehovah made the army commanders of the king of Assyria invade Judah. They took Manasseh captive, put a hook in his nose, put him in bronze shackles, and brought him to Babylon.
Then he will judge disputes between nations and settle matters between many people. They will beat (hammer) their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nations will not fight against each other, and they will not learn war anymore.
Before the harvest, when blossoms are gone and grapes are ripening from blossoms, he will cut off the shoots with pruning shears and chop off and take away the spreading branches.
The fishermen will groan and lament. All who cast hooks into the Nile and throw nets on the water will be weak and sick.
The nations heard about him. He was trapped in their pit. They led him with hooks to the land of Egypt.
Double-pronged hooks, three inches long, were attached to the wall all around the room, and the tables were for the meat of the animals.
Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears! Let the weak say, I am strong.
He will judge between many peoples, and will decide concerning strong nations far away. They will beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks! Nation will not lift up sword against nation and they will not learn war any more!