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 shall hang it on four pillars of acacia wood overlaid with gold, with gold hooks, on four sockets of silver.
You shall make five pillars of acacia wood to support the hanging curtain and overlay them with gold; their hooks shall be of gold, and you shall cast five [base] sockets of bronze for them.
You shall make pots to take away its ashes, and shovels, basins, forks, and firepans; make all its utensils of bronze.
Their pillars shall be twenty and their sockets twenty, of bronze, but the hooks of the pillars and their joinings shall be of silver;
So the Lord brought against them the commanders of the host of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh with hooks and in fetters and brought him to Babylon.
Can you put a rope into his nose? Or pierce his jaw through with a hook or a spike?
Can you put a rope into his nose? Or pierce his jaw through with a hook or a spike?
And He shall judge between the nations and shall decide [disputes] for many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
For before the harvest, when the blossom is over and the flower becomes a ripening grape, He will cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and the spreading branches He will remove and cut away.
The fishermen will lament, and all who cast a hook into the Nile will mourn; and they who spread nets upon the waters will languish.
The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.
And slabs or hooks a handbreadth long were fastened within [the room] round about. Upon the tables was to be placed the flesh of the offering.
Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weak say, I am strong [a warrior]!
And He shall judge between many peoples and shall decide for strong nations afar off, and they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.