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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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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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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