Cord
מֹשֶׁכֶתStrong’s H4189moshekhah (mo-she-khah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Moshekhah is the Hebrew word usually translated “chains of”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?”
Meaning
- Cord
How it's translated
- chains of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 1
1 book in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
מֹשֶׁכֶת moshekhah · cord
cord
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “cord” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CORD, noun
[Latin Gr. According to the Welsh, this word signifies a twist, from cor, the root of chorus.]
- A string, or small rope, composed of several strands twisted together. Joshua 2:15
- A quantity of wood, or other material, originally measured with a cord or line.
- In scripture, the cords of the wicked are the snares with which they catch the unwary. Psalms 129:4
All definitions and other forms of “cord”
CORD, verb transitive
- To bind with a cord or rope; to fasten with cords.
- To pile wood or other material for measurement and sale by the cord
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.