Hook
וָוStrong’s H2053vav
Appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Vav is the Hebrew word usually translated “hooks their”, “hooks of” and “hooks”. It appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament.
“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.”
Meaning
- Hook, peg, nail, pin
How it's translated
- hooks their 6
- hooks of 6
- hooks 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 13
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 26:37And thou shalt make for the hanging five pillars of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, and their hooks shall be of gold: and thou shalt cast five sockets of brass for them.
- Exodus 27:10And the twenty pillars thereof and their twenty sockets shall be of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver.
- Exodus 27:11And likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings of an hundred cubits long, and his twenty pillars and their twenty sockets of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.
- Exodus 27:17All the pillars round about the court shall be filleted with silver; their hooks shall be of silver, and their sockets of brass.
- Exodus 36:36And he made thereunto four pillars of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold: their hooks were of gold; and he cast for them four sockets of silver.
- Exodus 36:38And the five pillars of it with their hooks: and he overlaid their chapiters and their fillets with gold: but their five sockets were of brass.
Hebrew dictionary
וָו vav · hook
hook, peg, nail, pin
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
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
- 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.
- A snare; a trap.
- A curving instrument for cutting grass or grain; a sickle; an instrument for cutting or lopping.
- That part of a hinge which is fixed or inserted in a post.
All definitions and other forms of “hook”
- A forked timber in a ship, placed on the keel.
- A catch; an advantage. [Vulgar.]
- In husbandry, a field sown two years running. [Local.]
HOOK, verb transitive
To catch with a hook; as, to hook a fish.
- To seize and draw, as with a hook
- To fasten with a hook
- To entrap; to ensnare.
- 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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.