86 occurrences in 13 translations

'Hanging' in the Bible

After three days Pharaoh will take you out of prison, hanging you on a tree, so that your flesh will be food for birds.

Verse ConceptsDeath penaltyHeadsRemoving HeadsAnimals Eating PeopleLifting HeadsEating CorpsesBirds EatingPeople Hung To Death

But the chief bread-maker was put to death by hanging, as Joseph had said.

Verse ConceptsDeath penaltyPeople Hung To Death

And it came about as he said: I was put back in my place, and the bread-maker was put to death by hanging.

Verse ConceptsReinstating PeoplePeople Hung To Death

Five of these curtains are to be joined together, and the other six are to be joined together, the sixth being folded over to make a hanging in front of the tent.

Verse ConceptsJoining ThingsFive ThingsSix ThingsFractions, One SixthDoubled OverSixth

And that which remaineth hanging over of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remaineth, shall hang over the rear of the tabernacle.

Verse ConceptsLengthSurplusResidueHalf Of ThingsBack Of Things

The half yard on one side and the half yard on the other of what is left over along the length of the tent curtains should be hanging down over the sides of the tabernacle on either side to cover it.

Verse ConceptsCovering The TabernacleSurplus

Hanging it by gold hooks from four pillars of wood, plated with gold and fixed in silver bases.

Verse ConceptsHooksFour SupportsPillars For The TabernacleOverlaid With GoldSocketsGold Items For The Tabernacl

And thou shalt make an hanging for the door of the tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework.

Verse ConceptsembroideryRed MaterialBlue ClothPurple ClothMulti ColouredBlue Purple And Scarlet

And thou shalt make for the hanging five pillars of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, and their hooks shall be of gold: and thou shalt cast five sockets of brass for them.

Verse ConceptsAcacia WoodFive ThingsPillars For The TabernacleOverlaid With GoldSocketsGold Items For The TabernaclBronze Items For The Tabernacle

And for the gate of the court shall be an hanging of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework: and their pillars shall be four, and their sockets four.

Verse ConceptsembroideryFour SupportsPillars For The TabernacleRed MaterialBlue ClothPurple ClothMulti ColouredDimensions Of Other ThingsBlue Purple And Scarlet

The ark with its cover and its rods and the veil hanging before it;

Verse ConceptsPolesPropitiatory [Mercy Seat]

And the incense altar, and his staves, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the hanging for the door at the entering in of the tabernacle,

Verse ConceptsPolesDrugs

The hangings of the court, his pillars, and their sockets, and the hanging for the door of the court,

Verse ConceptsPillars For The TabernacleSockets

And he made an hanging for the tabernacle door of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, of needlework;

Verse ConceptsembroideryRed MaterialBlue ClothPurple ClothBlue Purple And Scarlet

And the hanging for the gate of the court was needlework, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: and twenty cubits was the length, and the height in the breadth was five cubits, answerable to the hangings of the court.

Verse ConceptsembroideryColors, BlueGates Of The TempleRed MaterialBlue ClothPurple ClothBlue Purple And Scarlet

And the golden altar, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the hanging for the tabernacle door,

Verse ConceptsIncenseAltar Of IncenseDrugs

The hangings of the court, his pillars, and his sockets, and the hanging for the court gate, his cords, and his pins, and all the vessels of the service of the tabernacle, for the tent of the congregation,

Verse ConceptsRopesTentsPegsPillars For The TabernacleSocketsGates Of The Temple

And inside it put the ark of the law, hanging the veil before it.

Verse ConceptsMost Holy Place

And thou shalt set the altar of gold for the incense before the ark of the testimony, and put the hanging of the door to the tabernacle.

Verse ConceptsGoldIncenseTypes Of ChristTestimonies

And thou shalt set up the court round about, and hang up the hanging at the court gate.

Verse ConceptsGates Of The Temple

And he took the ark into the House, hanging up the veil before it as the Lord had given him orders.

Verse ConceptsMost Holy Place

And he set up the hanging at the door of the tabernacle.

And he reared up the court round about the tabernacle and the altar, and set up the hanging of the court gate. So Moses finished the work.

Verse ConceptsGates Of The Temple

“The person afflicted with an infectious skin disease is to have his clothes torn and his hair hanging loose, and he must cover his mouth and cry out, ‘Unclean, unclean!’

Verse ConceptsCovering The MouthPurity, Nature OfVeilsQuarantiningCovering HeadsFacial Hair

And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of the congregation shall be the tabernacle, and the tent, the covering thereof, and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle of the congregation,

Verse ConceptsCovering The Tabernacle

And their charge shall be the ark, and the table, and the candlestick, and the altars, and the vessels of the sanctuary wherewith they minister, and the hanging, and all the service thereof.

Verse ConceptsLevitesTablesHoly VesselsSacred Vessels

that Aaron and his sons have come in, in the journeying of the camp, and have taken down the vail of the hanging, and have covered with it the ark of the testimony;

Verse ConceptsPriests, Function In Ot TimesSetting Out

And they shall bear the curtains of the tabernacle, and the tabernacle of the congregation, his covering, and the covering of the badgers' skins that is above upon it, and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle of the congregation,

Verse ConceptsAnimal SkinsSwinging

And the hangings of the court, and the hanging for the door of the gate of the court, which is by the tabernacle and by the altar round about, and their cords, and all the instruments of their service, and all that is made for them: so shall they serve.

Then the Lord said to Moses, Take all the chiefs of the people, hanging them up in the sun before the Lord, so that the wrath of the Lord may be turned from Israel.

Verse ConceptsPeople Hung To DeathAction Lest God Be Angry

If a man does a crime for which the punishment is death, and he is put to death by hanging him on a tree;

Verse ConceptsAtonementHangingPeople Hung To Death

Do not let his body be on the tree all night, but put it to rest in the earth the same day; for the man who undergoes hanging is cursed by God; so do not make unclean the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage.

Verse ConceptsThe AccursedGallowsHangingHumiliationKillingPollutionsOvernightThe Curse Of The LawPeople Hung To DeathBurying places

and thy life hath been hanging in suspense before thee, and thou hast been afraid by night and by day, and dost not believe in thy life;

Verse ConceptsAffliction Day And NightUncertain ThingsFear Of Enemiesbalancereassurance

And he put the king of Ai to death, hanging him on a tree till evening: and when the sun went down, Joshua gave them orders to take his body down from the tree, and put it in the public place of the town, covering it with a great mass of stones, which is there to this day.

Verse ConceptsGallowsGatesHangingPunishment, Legal Aspects OfSunsetsCairnsPeople Hung To DeathPlaces To This Day

And afterward Joshua smote them, and slew them, and hanged them on five trees: and they were hanging upon the trees until the evening.

Verse ConceptsGallowsHangingPunishment, Legal Aspects OfFive ThingsKilling KingsAction Until EveningPeople Hung To Death

His legs were covered with plates of brass and hanging on his back was a javelin of brass.

Verse ConceptsBackLegsArmor ProtectionJavelinsBronze Armour

And David gave orders to his young men and they put them to death, cutting off their hands and their feet and hanging them up by the side of the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bosheth and put it in its last resting-place with Abner's body in Hebron.

Verse ConceptsGallowsHangingPunishment, Legal Aspects OfMutilationPoolsDisfigurementSkullsCutting Off Hands And FeetAnother's Burial PlacePeople Hung To DeathKilling Named Individuals

Now when Ahithophel saw that his suggestion was not acted on, he got his ass ready, and went back to his house, to the town where he came from, and having put his house in order, he put himself to death by hanging; so he came to his end and was put in the resting-place of his father.

Verse ConceptsDespair, Description OfHangingHope, Results Of Its AbsenceHousesPunishment, Legal Aspects OfSuicideTombsPutting In OrderIndividuals going homePeople Hung To DeathPreparing To TravelSaddling Donkeys

Absalom happened to run into David's soldiers. While Absalom was trying to get away on his mule, it ran under the thick branches of a giant oak tree, and Absalom's head got caught in the tree! As his mule ran out from under him, Absalom was left hanging above the ground.

Verse ConceptsMulesBackCovering HeadsRiding MulesHairdreadlocks

One of the men saw him and informed Joab. He said, “I just saw Absalom hanging in an oak tree!”

Verse ConceptsTelling Of People's Situations

When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa came face to face with them. Now Joab had on his war-dress, and round him a band from which his sword was hanging in its cover; and while he was walking, it came out, falling to the earth.

Verse ConceptsBreastplatesArmourBeltsArmor ProtectionBronze Armour

Let seven men of his family be given up to us and we will put an end to them by hanging them before the Lord in Gibeon, on the hill of the Lord. And the king said, I will give them.

Verse ConceptsSeven ChildrenPeople Hung To Death

And he gave them up to the Gibeonites, and they put them to death, hanging them on the mountain before the Lord; all seven came to their end together in the first days of the grain-cutting, at the start of the cutting of the barley.

Verse ConceptsCriminalsMaternal LoveGrainAutumnPeople Hung To Death

And David went and took the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan from the men of Jabesh-gilead, who had taken them away secretly from the public place of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had put them, hanging up the bodies there on the day when they put Saul to death in Gilboa:

Verse ConceptsSecrecyBonesPeople Hung To Death

And he took the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan from that place; and they got together the bones of those who had been put to death by hanging.

Verse ConceptsBones

He made sayings about all plants, from the cedar in Lebanon to the hyssop hanging on the wall; and about all beasts and birds and fishes and the small things of the earth.

Verse ConceptsCedarHyssopPlantsRelation Of Animals To ManBeauty Of NatureFishPets

and on the frames between the cross-pieces were lions, oxen, and cherubim. On the cross-pieces there was a pedestal above, and below the lions and oxen were wreaths of hanging work.

Verse ConceptsLionsCherubim Depicted

And when the thing had been looked into, it was seen to be true, and the two of them were put to death by hanging on a tree: and it was put down in the records before the king.

Verse ConceptsTreasonPeople Hung To DeathHistorical BooksKilling Named Individuals

Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, "Let a gallows be made fifty cubits high, and in the morning speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on it. Then go in merrily with the king to the banquet." This pleased Haman, so he had the gallows made.

Verse ConceptsEscaping, Physical ThingsBad Wives ExamplesTemptressesDimensions Of Other ThingsPeople Hung To DeathNamed Wives

So the king said, “Who is in the court?” Now Haman had just entered the outer court of the king’s palace in order to speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on the gallows which he had prepared for him.

Verse ConceptsPeople Hung To Death

Then Harbonah, one of the unsexed servants waiting before the king, said, See, the pillar fifty cubits high, which Haman made for Mordecai, who said a good word for the king, is still in its place in Haman's house. Then the king said, Put him to death by hanging him on it.

Verse ConceptsEscaping, Physical ThingsAbasement, Examples OfDimensions Of Other Things

So Haman was put to death by hanging him on the pillar he had made for Mordecai. Then the king's wrath became less.

Verse ConceptsPurimDeath Of The Wicked, Examples OfHangingAnger Subsiding

Then King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew, See now, I have given Esther the family of Haman, and he has come to his death by hanging, because he made an attack on the Jews.

Verse ConceptsJews Under ThreatPeople Hung To Death

Then Esther said, If it is the king's pleasure, let authority be given to the Jews in Shushan to do tomorrow as has been done today, and let orders be given for the hanging of Haman's ten sons.

Verse ConceptsTen PeopleMan's Action TomorrowPeople Hung To Death

And the king said that this was to be done, and the order was given out in Shushan, and the hanging of Haman's ten sons was effected.

Verse ConceptsHangingTen PeoplePeople Hung To Death

But when the business was put before the king, he gave orders by letters that the evil design which he had made against the Jews was to be turned against himself; and that he and his sons were to be put to death by hanging.

Verse ConceptsEvil DevicesPeople Hung To Death

“He breaks open (mine) shafts far away from where people live,[In places] forgotten by the [human] foot;They dangle [in the mines] and hang away from men.

Verse ConceptsFeetSwinging

Hanging our instruments of music on the trees by the waterside.

Verse ConceptsMusical Instruments, types ofWillowsHarpsinstruments

Keep them ever folded in your heart, and have them hanging round your neck.

Verse ConceptsTabletsJoined To Goodknots

The legs of one who has no power of walking are hanging loose; so is a wise saying in the mouth of the foolish.

Verse ConceptsFools, Characteristics OfLamenessLegsProverbsWise Proverbs

Your neck is like the tower of David made for a store-house of arms, in which a thousand breastplates are hanging, breastplates for fighting-men.

Verse ConceptsNecksArmoryElegancecrusades

And all the glory of his father's family will be hanging on him, all their offspring, every small vessel, even the cups and the basins.

Verse ConceptsFathers Responsibilities

At that time," declares the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, "the peg that was driven into a secure place will give way; it will be sheared and will fall, and the load hanging on it will be cut down." The LORD has spoken.

Verse ConceptsTentsPegs

See, the nations are to him like a drop hanging from a bucket, and like the small dust in the scales: he takes up the islands like small dust.

Verse ConceptsGod, Majesty OfBalances, Metaphorical UseBucketsA Little Bitbalancedust

My tent is pulled down and all my cords are broken: my children have gone from me, and they are not: no longer is there anyone to give help in stretching out my tent and hanging up my curtains.

Verse ConceptsStretching OutTentsPeople Passing AwayUndoing FasteningsNo One To Be Found

Their face is blacker than night; in the streets no one has knowledge of them: their skin is hanging on their bones, they are dry, they have become like wood.

Verse ConceptsSkinSticksHuman SkinSootPeople WitheredNot Recognising PeopleBlack Peoplelimitations

Their hands put princes to death by hanging: the faces of old men were not honoured.

Verse ConceptsOld Age, Attitudes ToRespect, For Human BeingsDisrespect For Old Age

Will its wood be used for any work? do men make of it a pin for hanging any vessel on?

Verse ConceptsPegs

With bands round their bodies and with head-dresses hanging round their heads, all of them looking like rulers, like the Babylonians, the land of whose birth is Chaldaea.

Verse ConceptsBeltsHead coveringWaistsOfficersDyeingHeadgear

Cush and Lud and Put were in your army, your men of war, hanging up their body-covers and head-dresses of war in you: they gave you your glory.

Verse ConceptsHead coveringArmoryHelmetsEarthly ArmiesSource Of Honour

The men of Arvad in your army were on your walls, and were watchmen in your towers, hanging up their arms on your walls round about; they made you completely beautiful.

Verse ConceptsBeauty, In ArtefactsWarriorsWalled TownsPeople Made Perfect

And I will put hooks in your mouth, and the fish of your streams will be hanging from your skin; and I will make you come up out of your streams, with all the fish of your streams hanging from your skin.

Verse ConceptsThings Stuck TogetherGod Lifting People

And I will make the arms of the king of Babylon strong, and the arms of Pharaoh will be hanging down; and they will be certain that I am the Lord, when I put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon and it is stretched out against the land of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsGod Strengthening PeopleThings FallingGod's Sword

And My people are hanging in suspense, about My returning, And unto the Most High they do call, Together they exalt not.

and they were not finding what they shall do, for all the people were hanging on him, hearing him.

Then one of the criminals hanging there began to yell insults at Him: “Aren’t You the Messiah? Save Yourself and us!”

Verse ConceptsThe If's Of SatanJesus Christ, Temptation OfSaid To Be The ChristSaving OneselfSave Us!Abuseassertiveness

Since it was the day of Preparation [for the Sabbath], in order to prevent the bodies from hanging on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high holy day) the Jews asked Pilate to have their legs broken [to hasten death] and the bodies taken away.

Verse ConceptsJews, TheLegsBones BrokenCrucifiedOthers CrucifiedPreparing FoodRules About CorpsesSabbath Observed

While the man was hanging on to Peter and John, all the people, completely astounded, ran together to them in the covered walkway called Solomon's Portico.

Verse ConceptsSolomon, Life OfPorchesClinging To PeopleGateways Of The TempleGroups Running

When the local people saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “This man is probably a murderer, and though he has escaped the sea, Justice does not allow him to live!”

Verse ConceptsBarbariansUncharitablenessHow Death Is InevitableEscaping EvilJudged As Murderers

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
תּלה 
Talah 
hang , hang up , variant
Usage: 27

חנק 
Chanaq 
Usage: 2

יקע 
Yaqa` 
Usage: 8

מחא 
M@cha' (Aramaic) 
Usage: 4

מסך 
Macak 
Usage: 25

סרח 
Carach 
Usage: 7

קלע 
Qela` 
Usage: 22

תּלא 
Tala' 
Usage: 3

κρεμάννυμι 
Kremannumi 
Usage: 5

παρίημι 
Pariemi 
Usage: 1

περίκειμαι 
Perikeimai 
be hanged , be bound with , be compassed with , be compassed about with Trans
Usage: 2

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