hook, hooks Summary and Overview

Various kinds of hooks are noticed in the Bible, of which the following are the most important: 1. Fishing hooks. #Job 41:2; Isa 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 -- #Eze 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. #2Ch 33:11| 3. The hooks of the pillars of the tabernacle. #Ex 26:32,37; 27:10| 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. #Ex 27:3; 1Sa 2:13,14| 6. Probably "hooks" used for the purpose of hanging up animals to flay them. #Eze 40:43|