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Reference: Lock

Easton

The Hebrews usually secured their doors by bars of wood or iron (Isa 45:2; 1Ki 4:3). These were the locks originally used, and were opened and shut by large keys applied through an opening in the outside (Jg 3:24). (See Key.)

Lock of hair (Jg 16:13,19; Eze 8:3; Nu 6:5, etc.).

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Fausets

(See KEY.) Usually a hollow wooden bolt passing through a groove into the socket in the doorpost. In the groove are small sliding pins which drop into holes in the bolt, so securing it. The key with its pins raises the sliding pins of the lock so that the bolt can be drawn back (Jg 3:23,25; Song 5:5; Ne 3:3).

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Hastings

Smith

Lock.

Where European locks have not been introduced, the locks of eastern houses are usually of wood, and consist of a partly hollow bolt from fourteen inches to two feet long for external doors or gates, or from seven to nine inches for interior doors. The bold passes through a groove in a piece attached to the door into a socket in the door-post.

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