Topic
Fish-hooks
7 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Job 41:1Easton
Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?
- Job 41:2Easton
Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?
- Isaiah 37:29Easton
Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
- Jeremiah 16:16Easton
¶ Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the LORD, and they shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.
- Ezekiel 29:4Easton
But I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick unto thy scales, and I will bring thee up out of the midst of thy rivers, and all the fish of thy rivers shall stick unto thy scales.
- Amos 4:2Easton
The Lord GOD hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.
- Matthew 17:27Easton
Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money: that take, and give unto them for me and thee.
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 7 references
Were used for catching fish (Amos 4:2; comp. Isa. 37:29; Jer. 16:16; Ezek. 29:4; Job. 41:1, 2; Matt. 17:27).
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.