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# חַכָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2443

**hook** — used 3 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/1495/2443/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חַכָּה²: n.f. hook fish-hook [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2443/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. hook fastened in jaw, fish-hook (NH id., Aramaic חַכְּתָא)—abs. ח׳ Jb 40:25 + 2 times;—כָּל־מַשְׁלִיכֵי בַיְאֹר חַכָּ֑ה Is 19:8 (‖ הַדַּיָּגִים), כֻּלֹּה בְּחַכָּה הֵעֲלָה Hb 1:15 (of אדם, who, v 14, is comp. to דְּגֵי הַיָּם, and רֶמֶשׂ), cf. תִּמְשֹׁךְ לִוְיָתָן בְּחַכָּ֑ה Jb 40:25.

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

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a fish hook (3).

## In the verses

[Job 40:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.40.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.40.25/#tree)

תִּמְשֹׁ֣ךְ לִוְיָתָ֣ן בְּחַכָּ֑ה וּ֝בְחֶ֗בֶל תַּשְׁקִ֥יעַ לְשֹׁנֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* will.you.draw.out? Leviathan with a.fish.hook and with a.cord will.you.make.sink? tongue its

*JPS 1917:* Canst thou draw out leviathan with a fish-hook? or press down his tongue with a cord?

[Isaiah 19:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.19.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.19.8/#tree)

וְאָנוּ֙ הַדַּיָּגִ֔ים וְאָ֣בְל֔וּ כָּל־מַשְׁלִיכֵ֥י בַיְא֖וֹר חַכָּ֑ה וּפֹרְשֵׂ֥י מִכְמֹ֛רֶת עַל־פְּנֵי־מַ֖יִם אֻמְלָֽלוּ׃

*Word for word:* and they.will.lament the fishermen and they.will.mourn all \[those.who\].cast in the River a.fish.hook and \[those.who\].spread.out (of).a.fishing.net on \[the\].surface of.\[the\].waters they.will.languish

*JPS 1917:* The fishers also shall lament, and all they that cast angle into the Nile shall mourn, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2443.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2443/): 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).