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Fishhook

ἄγκιστρονStrong’s G0044

agkistron

Appears in 1 verse of the New Testament

In short

Agkistron is the Greek word usually translated “hook”. It appears in 1 verse of the New Testament.

“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.”
Matthew 17:27 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “hook”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • a hook 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Matthew 1

1 book in all.

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    Greek dictionary

    ἄγκιστρον agkistron · fishhook

    ἄγκιστρον, -ου, τό (ἄγκος, a bend), [in LXX חַכָּה, etc. ;] a fish-hook: Mat.17:27.† (AS)

    From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “hook” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    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.
    All definitions and other forms of “hook”
    1. A forked timber in a ship, placed on the keel.
    2. A catch; an advantage. [Vulgar.]
    3. In husbandry, a field sown two years running. [Local.]

    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.

    HOOK, verb intransitive

    To bend; to be curving.

      Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

      Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.