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# חַח

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2397

**hook** — used 7 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

hook [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2397/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חַח: n.m. hook, ring, fetter [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2397/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. hook, ring, fetter;—חַח abs. Ex 35:22; sf. חַחִי Is 37:29 2 K 19:28; pl. חַחִים Ez 19:4 + 2 times + Ez 29:4 Qr (Kt erron. חחיים, v. infr.);— hook, ring, in nose of captive וְשַׂמְתִּי חַחִי בְּאַפֶּ֑ךָ Is 37:29 = 2 K 19:28 (cf. בַּחֹחִים 2 Ch 33:11, v. חוֹחַ supr.); so of princes of Judah, under fig. of young lions Ez 19:4, 9 (in v 9 transp., so that בחחים foll. הביא as v 4; so Co); in jaws of crocodile (metaph. of Pharaoh), c. נתן Ez 29:4, cf. 38:4 (but 𝔊 om. and sense opposes, cf. Co and—dub.—Da). hook, ring as ornament, perhaps nose-ring (others brooch, see VB), Ex 35:22 (P; ‖ נֶזֶם, טַבַּעַת, כּוּמָז).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: hooks (4); hook (2); nose ring\[s\] (1).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 19:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.19.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.19.4/#tree)

וַיִּשְׁמְע֥וּ אֵלָ֛יו גּוֹיִ֖ם בְּשַׁחְתָּ֣ם נִתְפָּ֑שׂ וַיְבִאֻ֥הוּ בַֽחַחִ֖ים אֶל־אֶ֥רֶץ מִצְרָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* and they.heard concerning it nations in pit their it.was.caught and they brought.it with (the) hooks to the.land of.Egypt

*JPS 1917:* Then the nations assembled against him, he was taken in their pit; and they brought him with hooks unto the land of Egypt.

[Ezekiel 19:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.19.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.19.9/#tree)

וַֽיִּתְּנֻ֤הוּ בַסּוּגַר֙ בַּֽחַחִ֔ים וַיְבִאֻ֖הוּ אֶל־מֶ֣לֶךְ בָּבֶ֑ל יְבִאֻ֙הוּ֙ בַּמְּצֹד֔וֹת לְמַ֗עַן לֹא־יִשָּׁמַ֥ע קוֹל֛וֹ ע֖וֹד אֶל־הָרֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃פ

*Word for word:* and they put.it in (the) cage with (the) hooks and they brought.it to the.king of.Babylon they brought.it in (the) strongholds so.that not it.may.be.heard voice its again to the.mountains of.Israel

*JPS 1917:* And they put him in a cage with hooks, and brought him to the king of Babylon; that they might bring him into strongholds, so that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2397.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2397/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).