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| Hook, hooks | Bible | Various kinds of hooks are noticed in the Bible, of which the following are the most important: 1. Fishing hooks. (Job 41:2; Isaiah 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 -- (Ezekiel 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. (2 Chronicles 33:11) 3. The hooks of the pillars of the tabernacle. (Exodus 26:32,37; 27:10) ff.; Exod 38:13 ff. 4. A vinedressers pruning-hook. (Isaiah 2:4; 18:5; Micah 4:3; Joel 3:10) 5. A flesh-hook for getting up the joints of meat out of the boiling-pot. (Exodus 27:3; 1 Samuel 2:13,14) 6. Probably "hooks" used for the purpose of hanging up animals to flay them. (Ezekiel 40:43). (references) | |
| Hook, Hooks | Literature | 1: To fish with a golden hook. To give bribes. "Pêcher avec un hamegon d'or. " Risk a sprat to catch a mackerel. To buy fish, and pretend to have caught it. 2: With a hook at the end. My assent is given with a hook at the end means not intended to be kept. In some parts of Germany, even to the present day, when a witness swears falsely, he crooks one finger into a sort of hook, and this is supposed sufficient to avert the sin of perjury. It is a crooked oath, or an oath "with a hook at the end." (See Over The Left.) 3: He is off the hooks. Done for, laid on the shelf, superseded, dead. The bent pieces of iron on which the hinges of a gate rest and turn are called hooks; if a gate is off the hooks it is in a bad way, and cannot readily be opened and shut. 4: N.B. Ringing the bells backwards, and repeating the Lord's Prayer backwards belong to the same class of superstitions. 5: On one's own hook. On one's own responsibility or account. An angler's phrase. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
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