Bible Dictionaries
Rope

From Easton: Cord - frequently used in its proper sense, for fastening a tent (Exodus 35:18; Exodus 39:40), yoking animals to a cart (Isaiah 5:18), binding prisoners (Judges 15:13; Psalms 2:3; Psalms 129:4), and measuring ground (2 Samuel 8:0; 2 Samuel 2:0; Psalms 78:55). Figuratively, death is spoken of as the giving way of the tent-cord (Job 4:21. "Is not their tent-cord plucked up?" R.V.). To gird one's self with a cord was a token of sorrow and humiliation. To stretch a line over a city meant to level it with the ground (Lamentations 2:8). The "cords of sin" are the consequences or fruits of sin (Proverbs 5:22). A "threefold cord" is a symbol of union (Ecclesiastes 4:12). The "cords of a man" (Hosea 11:4) means that men employ, in inducing each other, methods such as are suitable to men, and not "cords" such as oxen are led by. Isaiah (5:18) says, "Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope." This verse is thus given in the Chaldee paraphrase: "Woe to those who begin to sin by little and little, drawing sin by cords of vanity: these sins grow and increase till they are strong and are like a cart rope." This may be the true meaning. The wicked at first draw sin with a slender cord; but by-and-by their sins increase, and they are drawn after them by a cart rope. Henderson in his commentary says: "The meaning is that the persons described were not satisfied with ordinary modes of provoking the Deity, and the consequent ordinary approach of his vengeance, but, as it were, yoked themselves in the harness of iniquity, and, putting forth all their strength, drew down upon themselves, with accelerated speed, the load of punishment which their sins deserved."

Verses:

• Genesis 38:18
• Genesis 38:25
• Exodus 28:14
• Exodus 28:22
• Exodus 28:24
• Exodus 28:25
• Exodus 28:28
• Exodus 28:37
• Exodus 35:18
• Exodus 39:15
• Exodus 39:17
• Exodus 39:18
• Exodus 39:21
• Exodus 39:31
• Exodus 39:40
• Numbers 3:26
• Numbers 3:37
• Numbers 4:26
• Numbers 4:32
• Numbers 15:38
• Joshua 2:15
• Joshua 2:18
• Joshua 2:21
• Judges 15:13
• Judges 15:14
• Judges 16:7
• Judges 16:8
• Judges 16:9
• Judges 16:11
• Judges 16:12
• 2 Samuel 8:2
• 2 Samuel 17:13
• 2 Samuel 22:6
• 1 Kings 20:31
• 1 Kings 20:32
• Esther 1:6
• Job 18:10
• Job 30:11
• Job 36:8
• Job 38:31
• Job 39:10
• Job 41:1
• Psalms 18:4
• Psalms 18:5
• Psalms 116:3
• Psalms 118:27
• Psalms 119:61
• Psalms 129:4
• Psalms 140:5
• Proverbs 5:22
• Ecclesiastes 4:12
• Ecclesiastes 12:6
• Isaiah 3:24
• Isaiah 5:18
• Isaiah 33:20
• Isaiah 54:2
• Isaiah 58:6
• Jeremiah 10:20
• Jeremiah 38:6
• Jeremiah 38:11
• Jeremiah 38:12
• Jeremiah 38:13
• Ezekiel 3:25
• Ezekiel 27:24
• Daniel 3:20
• Daniel 3:23
• Daniel 3:24
• John 2:15
• Acts 27:17
• Acts 27:32
• Acts 27:40