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Smith's Bible Dictionary
Various kinds of hooks are noticed in the Bible, of which the following are the most important:
•Fishing hooks. (Job 41:2; Isaiah 19:8); Habb 1:15
•A ring, such as in our country is placed through the nose of a bull, and similarly used in the East
for leading about lions— (Ezekiel 19:4) where the Authorized Version has “with chains—camels
and other animals. Called “thorn” in (Job 41:2) A similar method was adopted for leading prisoners.
(2 Chronicles 33:11)
•The hooks of the pillars of the tabernacle. (Exodus 26:32,37; 27:10) ff.; Exod 38:13 ff.
•A vinedressers pruning-hook. (Isaiah 2:4; 18:5; Micah 4:3; Joel 3:10)
•A flesh-hook for getting up the joints of meat out of the boiling-pot. (Exodus 27:3; 1 Samuel
2:13,14)
•Probably “hooks” used for the purpose of hanging up animals to flay them. (Ezekiel 40:43)
Hophni
(pugilist) and Phinehas (brazen mouth), the two sons of Eli, who fulfilled their hereditary
sacerdotal duties at Shiloh. Their brutal rapacity and lust, (1 Samuel 2:12-17,22) filled the people
with disgust and indignation, and provoked the curse which was denounced against their father’s
house, first by an unknown prophet, (1 Samuel 2:27-36) and then by Samuel. ch. (1 Samuel 3:11-14)
They were both cut off in one day in the flower of their age, and the ark which they had accompanied
to battle against the Philistines was lost on the same occasion. (1 Samuel 4:10,11) (B.C. 1130.)
Hor
(mountain), Mount.
•The mountain on which Aaron died. (Numbers 20:25,27) It was “on the boundary line,” (Numbers
20:23) or “at the edge,” ch. (Numbers 33:37) of the land of Edom. It was the halting-place of the
people next after Kadesh, ch. (Numbers 20:22; 33:37) and they quitted it for Zalmonah, ch.
(Numbers 33:41) in the road to the Red Sea. ch. (Numbers 21:4) It was during the encampment
at Kadesh that Aaron was gathered to his fathers. Mount Hor is situated on the eastern side of the
great valley of the Arabah, the highest and most conspicuous of the whole range of the sandstone
mountains of Edom, having close beneath it on its: eastern side the mysterious; city of Petra. It is
now the Jebel Nebi-Harim “the mountain of the prophet Aaron.” Its height is 4800 feet above the
Mediterranean; that is to say, about 1700 feet above the town of Petra, 4800 above the level of
the Arabah, and more than 6000 above the Dead Sea. The mountain is marked far and near by its
double top, which rises like a huge castellated building from a lower base, and is surmounted by
a circular dome of the tomb of Aaron, a distinct white spot on the dark red surface of the mountain.
The chief interest of Mount Hor consists in the prospect from its summit, the last view of
Aaron—that view which was to him what Pisgah was to his brother.
•A mountain, entirely distinct from the preceding, named in (Numbers 34:7,8) only, as one of the
marks of the northern boundary of the land which the children of Israel were about to conquer.
This Mount Hor is the great chain of Lebanon itself.
Horam
(mountainous), king of Gezer at the time of the conquest of the southwestern part of Palestine.
(Joshua 10:33)
Horeb
(desert). [Sinai, Or Sinai]
Horem
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