Exodus 26:32
And thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of shittim wood overlaid with gold: their hooks shall be of gold, upon the four sockets of silver.
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Amos 4:2
The Lord GOD hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.
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13 occurrences in 13 verses.
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וָו
vâv · vaw
13 times translated as this KJV form13 total Strong's occurrences
a hook (the name of the sixth Hebrew letter)
Strong's KJV usage: hook.
Strong's first: Exodus 26:32Strong's last: Exodus 38:28
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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: Ezekiel 29:4Strong's last: Ezekiel 38:4
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mazmêrâh · maz-may-raw'
1 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
a pruning-knife
Strong's KJV usage: pruning-hook.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Isaiah 18:5Strong's last: Isaiah 18:5
Open full H4211 profile →צִנָּה
tsinnâh · tsin-naw'
1 times translated as this KJV form22 total Strong's occurrences
a hook (as pointed); also a (large) shield (as if guarding by prickliness); also cold (as piercing)
Strong's KJV usage: buckler, cold, hook, shield, target.
Strong's first: Amos 4:2Strong's last: Amos 4:2
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shâphâth · shaw-fawth'
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
a (double) stall (for cattle); also a (two-pronged) hook (for flaying animals on)
Strong's KJV usage: hook, pot.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Ezekiel 40:43Strong's last: Ezekiel 40:43
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H2397
But I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick unto thy scales, and I will bring thee up out of the midst of thy rivers, and all the fish of thy rivers shall stick unto thy scales.
H2397
And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
H8240
And within were hooks, an hand broad, fastened round about: and upon the tables was the flesh of the offering.
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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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