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Bible Dictionaries
Hooks
Smith's Bible Dictionary
or Hooks. 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; Habakkuk 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; Exodus 26:37; Exodus 27:10 ff.; Exodus 38:13. Ff.
4. A vinedressers pruning-hook. Isaiah 2:4; Isaiah 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.
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Smith, William, Dr. Entry for 'Hooks'. Smith's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/sbd/h/hooks.html. 1901.
