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Various kinds of hooks are noticed in the Bible, of which the following are the most important:

1. Fishing hooks. (Job 41:2; Isaiah 19:8); 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 -- (Ezekiel 19:4) where the Authorized Version has "with chains --camels and other animals. Called "thorn" in (Job 41:2) A similar method was adopted for leading prisoners. (2 Chronicles 33:11)
3. The hooks of the pillars of the tabernacle. (Exodus 26:32,37; 27:10) ff.; Exod 38:13 ff.
4. A vinedressers pruning-hook. (Isaiah 2:4; 18:5; Micah 4:3; Joel 3:10)
5. A flesh-hook for getting up the joints of meat out of the boiling-pot. (Exodus 27:3; 1 Samuel 2:13,14)
6. Probably "hooks" used for the purpose of hanging up animals to flay them. (Ezekiel 40:43)

8240b. shephathayim -- probably hook-shaped pegs, hooks
... 8240a, 8240b. shephathayim. 8241 . probably hook-shaped pegs, hooks.
Transliteration: shephathayim Short Definition: hooks. Word ...
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2053. vav -- a hook, pin, peg
... Word Origin of uncertain derivation Definition a hook, pin, peg NASB Word Usage
hooks (13). hook. Probably a hook (the name of the sixth Heb. Letter) -- hook. ...
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2397. chach -- hook, ring, fetter
... Word Origin from the same as choach Definition hook, ring, fetter NASB Word Usage
brooches (1), hook (2), hooks (4). bracelet, chain, hook. Once (Ezek. ...
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6793a. tsinnah -- probably a hook, barb
... Word Origin from the same as tsen Definition probably a hook, barb NASB Word Usage
meat hooks (1). 6793, 6793a. tsinnah. 6793b . Strong's Numbers.
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2336. choach -- briar, bramble, hook, ring, fetter
... briar, bramble, hook, ring, fetter NASB Word Usage briars (1), hook (1), hooks
(1), thickets (1), thistles (1), thorn (1), thorn bush (4), thorns (2). ...
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5518b. sir -- a thorn, hook
... Word Origin from the same as sir Definition a thorn, hook NASB Word Usage hooks
(1), thorn bushes (1), thorns (3). 5518a, 5518b. sir. 5519 . Strong's Numbers
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7165. qeres -- a hook
... Word Origin from qaras Definition a hook NASB Word Usage clasps (9), hooks (1).
tache. From qarac; a knob or belaying-pin (from its swelling form) -- tache. ...
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4211. mazmerah -- a pruning knife
... hooks. Word Origin from zamar Definition a pruning knife NASB Word Usage
pruning hooks (3), pruning knives (1). pruning-hook. From ...
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The Pilgrim's Progress of 1352
... But it was told him that for these blessed people the enemy had in readiness two
great hooks, which he cast into ... And therefore the first hook was called Self. ...
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Proof against the Marcionites, that the Prophets Referred in all ...
... and war-lances into ploughshares, and changed them into pruning-hooks for reaping ...
He Himself who has made the plough, and introduced the pruning-hook, that is ...
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A Description of Some Parts of Ancient Jerusalem.
... the upper strap, and fastened it to one of the hooks on the ladder; they did the
same with the two other straps, and passing them all on from hook to hook ...
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The Flight into Egypt and St. John the Baptist in the Desert
... her hands two needles (of bone, I think) with little hooks. One must be half a yard
long. The other is shorter. The needle is prolonged beyond the hook, and it ...
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The Draw-Net.
... The fishermen prosecuted their avocation sometimes with line and baited hooks,
sometimes with boat and nets. Fishing with line and hook, a process of watching ...
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The Adventures of Saint Patrick of Ireland.
... by at the time, and which Saint Patrick caught with cunningly-devised hooks; and
thus ... taller than all the rest, with a cable at one end, and a hook bigger than ...
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Trinidad
... tells, too, how the prickly climbing palm, {58} the Croc-chien, or Hook-dog, pest ...
ran from the English, one of them was caught in the innumerable hooks of the ...
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The Right Kind of Fear
... They say that they mean to get the worm off without letting the hook catch hold
of them. They have very clever ways of sucking worms off hooks, and they are ...
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On the Sunday Called "Episozomenes," to those who had Come to ...
... at one time cutting away the thorns from the soil with a bill-hook, at another ... And
the pots, and the flesh-hooks, and the bowls, and the censers, and all the ...
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The Two Effects of the Gospel
... and silver hooks; they always use nicely polished phrases; but the fish will not
bite for all that, whereas we of a rougher order have put the hook into the ...
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