Hook
חַחStrong’s H2397chach
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chach is the Hebrew word usually translated “hook my”, “hooks” and “nose ring”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“And they came, both men and women, as many as were willing hearted, and brought bracelets, and earrings, and rings, and tablets, all jewels of gold: and every man that offered offered an offering of gold unto the LORD.”
Meaning
- Hook, ring, fetter, broochhook, ring (in nose of captive) · hook, ring (as jewellery)
How it's translated
- hook my 2
- with hooks 2
- hooks 2
- nose ring 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 4
- Exodus 1
- 2 Kings 1
- Isaiah 1
4 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Kings 19:28Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
- Isaiah 37:29Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
- Ezekiel 19:4The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt.
- Ezekiel 19:9And they put him in ward in chains, and brought him to the king of Babylon: they brought him into holds, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.
- Ezekiel 29:4But 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.
- Ezekiel 38:4And 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:
Hebrew dictionary
חַח chach · hook
1) hook, ring, fetter, brooch 1a) hook, ring (in nose of captive) 1b) hook, ring (as jewellery) 1b1) nose ring 1b2) bracelet
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.