2 Kings 19:28
Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
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Hook
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Matthew 17:27
Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money: that take, and give unto them for me and thee.
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חָח
châch · khawkh
2 times translated as this KJV form7 total Strong's occurrences
a ring for the nose (or lips)
Strong's KJV usage: bracelet, chain, hook.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 Kings 19:28Strong's last: Isaiah 37:29
Open full H2397 profile →ἄγκιστρον
ánkistron · ang'-kis-tron
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
a hook (as bent)
Strong's KJV usage: :--hook.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 17:27Strong's last: Matthew 17:27
Open full G44 profile →אַגְמוֹן
ʼagmôwn · ag-mone'
1 times translated as this KJV form5 total Strong's occurrences
a rush (as growing there); collectively a rope of rushes
Strong's KJV usage: bulrush, caldron, hook, rush.
Strong's first: Job 41:2Strong's last: Job 41:2
Open full H100 profile →חַכָּה
chakkâh · khak-kaw'
1 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
a hook (as adhering)
Strong's KJV usage: angle, hook.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Job 41:1Strong's last: Job 41:1
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H2397
Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
H2443
Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?
H100
Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?
H2397
Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
G44
Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money: that take, and give unto them for me and thee.
English meaning and historical usage.
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hook
HOOK, noun
1. A piece of iron or other metal bent into a curve for catching, holding and sustaining any thing; as a hook for catching fish; a teeter-hook; a chimney-hook; a pot-hook, etc.
2. A snare; a trap.
3. A curving instrument for cutting grass or grain; a sickle; an instrument for cutting or lopping.
4. That part of a hinge which is fixed or inserted in a post. Whence the phrase, to be off the hooks, to be unhinged, to be disturbed or disordered.
5. A forked timber in a ship, placed on the keel.
6. A catch; an advantage. [Vulgar.]
7. In husbandry, a field sown two years running. [Local.]
By hook and by crook, one way or other; by any means, direct or indirect.
HOOK, verb transitive To catch with a hook; as, to hook a fish.
1. To seize and draw, as with a hook
2. To fasten with a hook
3. To entrap; to ensnare.
4. To draw by force or artifice.
To hook on, to apply a hook
HOOK, verb intransitive To bend; to be curving.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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