Hook
צִנָּהStrong’s H6793tsinnah (tsin-nah)
Appears in 20 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tsinnah is the Hebrew word usually translated “body shield”, “shield” and “body shields”. It appears in 20 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the staff of his spear was like a weaver’s beam; and his spear’s head weighed six hundred shekels of iron: and one bearing a shield went before him.”
Meaning
- Something piercing, hook, barbmeaning uncertain
- Coolness, cold (of snow)
- Shield, large shield, bucklershield
How it's translated
- body shield 5
- and body shield 4
- the body shield 3
- shield 2
- of the body shield 1
- with shield 1
- body shields 1
- like shield 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Chronicles 4
- Ezekiel 4
- 1 Chronicles 3
- Psalms 3
- 1 Samuel 2
- 1 Kings 1
9 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Samuel 17:41And the Philistine came on and drew near unto David; and the man that bare the shield went before him.
- 1 Kings 10:16And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of gold went to one target.
- 1 Chronicles 12:8And of the Gadites there separated themselves unto David into the hold to the wilderness men of might, and men of war fit for the battle, that could handle shield and buckler, whose faces were like the faces of lions, and were as swift as the roes upon the mountains;
- 1 Chronicles 12:24The children of Judah that bare shield and spear were six thousand and eight hundred, ready armed to the war.
- 1 Chronicles 12:34And of Naphtali a thousand captains, and with them with shield and spear thirty and seven thousand.
- 2 Chronicles 9:15And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of beaten gold went to one target.
Hebrew dictionary
צִנָּה tsinnah · hook
1) something piercing, hook, barb 1a) meaning uncertain
צִנָּה tsinnah · coolness
coolness, cold (of snow)
צִנָּה tsinnah · shield
1) shield, large shield, buckler 1a) shield
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.