Song of Solomon 5:5
I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock.
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Lock
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Ezekiel 8:3
And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy.
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מַנְעוּל
manʻûwl · man-ool'
1 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
a bolt
Strong's KJV usage: lock.
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Strong's first: Song of Solomon 5:5Strong's last: Song of Solomon 5:5
Open full H4514 profile →צִיצִת
tsîytsith · tsee-tseeth'
1 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
a floral or wing-like projection, i.e. a fore-lock of hair, a tassel
Strong's KJV usage: fringe, lock.
Strong's first: Ezekiel 8:3Strong's last: Ezekiel 8:3
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I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock.
H6734
And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy.
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lock
LOCK, noun [Latin floccus, Eng. lock ]
1. lock in its primary sense, is any thing that fastens; but we now appropriate the word to an instrument composed of a spring, wards, and a bolt of iron or steel, used to fasten doors, chests and the like. The bolt is moved by a key.
2. The part of a musket or fowling-piece or other fire-arm, which contains the pan, trigger, etc.
3. The barrier or works of a canal, which confine the water, consisting of a dam, banks or walls, with two gates or pairs of gates, which may be opened or shut at pleasure.
4. A grapple in wrestling.
5. Any inclosure.
6. A tuft of hair; a plexus of wool, hay or other like substance; a flock; a ringlet of hair.
A lock of hair will draw more than a cable rope.
LOCK of water, is the measure equal to the contents of the chamber of the locks by which the consumption of water on a canal is estimated.
LOCK'-KEEPER, noun One who attends the locks of a canal.
LOCK'-PADDLE, noun A small sluse that serves to fill and empty a lock
LOCK'-SIL, noun An angular piece of timber at the bottom of a lock against which the gates shut.
LOCK'-WEIR, noun A paddle-weir, in canals, an over-fall behind the upper gates, by which the waste water of the upper pound is let down through the paddle-holes into the chamber of the lock
LOCK, verb transitive
1. To fasten with a particular instrument; as, to lock a door; to lock a trunk.
2. To shut up or confine, as with a lock; as, to be locked in a prison. lock the secret in your breast.
3. To close fast. The frost locks up our rivers.
4. To embrace closely; as, to lock one in the arms.
5. To furnish with locks, as a canal.
6. To confine; to restrain. Our shipping was locked up by the embargo.
7. In fencing, to seize the sword-arm of an antagonist, by turning the left arm around it, after closing the parade, shell to shell, in order to disarm him.
LOCK, verb intransitive
1. To become fast. The door locks close.
2. To unite closely by mutual insertion; as, they lock into each other.
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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