'Cords' in the Bible

It was while she was being brought out that she sent to her father-in-law, saying, “I am with child by the man to whom these things belong.” And she said, “Please examine and see, whose signet ring and cords and staff are these?”

You shall put the two cords of gold on the two rings at the ends of the breastpiece.

You shall put the other two ends of the two cords on the two filigree settings, and put them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod, at the front of it.

the pegs of the tabernacle and the pegs of the court and their cords;

They made on the breastpiece chains like cords, of twisted cordage work in pure gold.

Then they put the two gold cords in the two rings at the ends of the breastpiece.

They put the other two ends of the two cords on the two filigree settings, and put them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod at the front of it.

the hangings for the court, its pillars and its sockets, and the screen for the gate of the court, its cords and its pegs and all the equipment for the service of the tabernacle, for the tent of meeting;

and the hangings of the court, and the screen for the doorway of the court which is around the tabernacle and the altar, and its cords, according to all the service concerning them.

and the pillars around the court with their sockets and their pegs and their cords.

and the hangings of the court, and the screen for the doorway of the gate of the court which is around the tabernacle and the altar, and their cords and all the equipment for their service; and all that is to be done, they shall perform.

and the pillars around the court and their sockets and their pegs and their cords, with all their equipment and with all their service; and you shall assign each man by name the items he is to carry.

Samson said to her, “If they bind me with seven fresh cords that have not been dried, then I will become weak and be like any other man.”

Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven fresh cords that had not been dried, and she bound him with them.

Now she had men lying in wait in an inner room. And she said to him, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” But he snapped the cords as a string of tow snaps when it touches fire. So his strength was not discovered.

The cords of Sheol surrounded me;The snares of death confronted me.

There were hangings of fine white and violet linen held by cords of fine purple linen on silver rings and marble columns, and couches of gold and silver on a mosaic pavement of porphyry, marble, mother-of-pearl and precious stones.

“And if they are bound in fetters,And are caught in the cords of affliction,

“Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades,Or loose the cords of Orion?

“Let us tear their fetters apartAnd cast away their cords from us!”

The cords of death encompassed me,And the torrents of ungodliness terrified me.

The cords of Sheol surrounded me;The snares of death confronted me.

The cords of death encompassed meAnd the terrors of Sheol came upon me;I found distress and sorrow.

The Lord is God, and He has given us light;Bind the festival sacrifice with cords to the horns of the altar.

The cords of the wicked have encircled me,But I have not forgotten Your law.

The Lord is righteous;He has cut in two the cords of the wicked.

The proud have hidden a trap for me, and cords;They have spread a net by the wayside;They have set snares for me. Selah.

His own iniquities will capture the wicked,And he will be held with the cords of his sin.

Woe to those who drag iniquity with the cords of falsehood,And sin as if with cart ropes;

Look upon Zion, the city of our appointed feasts;Your eyes will see Jerusalem, an undisturbed habitation,A tent which will not be folded;Its stakes will never be pulled up,Nor any of its cords be torn apart.

“Enlarge the place of your tent;Stretch out the curtains of your dwellings, spare not;Lengthen your cordsAnd strengthen your pegs.

They traded with you in choice garments, in clothes of blue and embroidered work, and in carpets of many colors and tightly wound cords, which were among your merchandise.

I led them with cords of a man, with bonds of love,And I became to them as one who lifts the yoke from their jaws;And I bent down and fed them.

And He made a scourge of cords, and drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen; and He poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables;