Stocks
צִינֹקStrong’s H6729tsinoq (tsi-noq)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Tsinoq is the Hebrew word usually translated “iron collar”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“The LORD hath made thee priest in the stead of Jehoiada the priest, that ye should be officers in the house of the LORD, for every man that is mad, and maketh himself a prophet, that thou shouldest put him in prison, and in the stocks.”
Meaning
- Pillory, stocks
How it's translated
- the iron collar 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
צִינֹק tsinoq · stocks
pillory, stocks
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “stock” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
STOCK, noun
[G., a stem, a staff, a stick, a block. This word coincides with stake, stick, stack; that which is set or fixed.]
- The stem or main body of a tree or other plant; the fixed, strong, firm part; the origin and support of the branches. Job 14:8
- The stem in which a graft is inserted, and which is its support.
- A post; something fixed, solid and senseless.
- A person very stupid, dull and senseless.
All definitions and other forms of “stock”
- The handle of any thing.
- The wood in which the barrel of a musket or other fire-arm is fixed.
- A thrust with a rapier. [Not in use.]
- A cravat or band for the neck.
- A cover for the leg. [Now stocking.]
- The original progenitor; also, the race or line of a family; the progenitors of a family and their direct descendants; lineage; family.“Men and brothern, children of the stock of Abraham--” Acts 13:26
- A fund; capital; the money or goods employed in trade, manufactures, insurance, banking, etc.; as the stock of a banking company; the stock employed in the manufacture of cotton, in making insurance and the like. stock may be individual or joint.
- Money lent to government, or property in a public debt; a share or shares of a national or other public debt, or in a company debt.
- Supply provided; store.
- In agriculture, the domestic animals or beasts belonging to the owner of a farm; as a stock of cattle or of sheep.
- Living beasts shipped to a foreign country; as, a brig sailed yesterday with stock on deck.
- In the West Indies, the slaves of a plantation.
- Stocks, plural A machine consisting of two pieces of timber, in which the legs of criminals are confined by way of punishment.
- The frame or timbers on which a ship rests while building.
- The stock of an anchor is the piece of timber into which the shank is inserted.
- In book-keeping, the owner or owners of the books.
STOCK, verb transitive
- To store; to supply; to fill; as, to stock the mind with ideas.
- To lay up in store; as, he stocks what he cannot use.
- To put in the stocks. [Little used.]
- To pack; to put into a pack; as, to stock cards.
- To supply with domestic animals; as, to stock a farm.
- To supply with seed; as, to stock land with clover or herdsgrass.
- To suffer cows to retain their milk for 24 hours or more, previous to sale.
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.