Hook
חַכָּהStrong’s H2443chakkah (chak-kah)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chakkah is the Hebrew word usually translated “fish hook”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?”
Meaning
- Hook, angle, hook fastened in jaw, fish hook
How it's translated
- with a fish hook 2
- a fish hook 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 1
- Isaiah 1
- Habakkuk 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Isaiah 19:8The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.
- Habakkuk 1:15They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad.
Hebrew dictionary
חַכָּה chakkah · hook
hook, angle, hook fastened in jaw, fish hook
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.