Difference between revisions of "Hock"
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== Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_127316" /> == | == Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_127316" /> == | ||
<p> '''(1):''' ''' (''' n.) | <p> '''(1):''' ''' (''' n.) A Rhenish wine, of a light yellow color, either sparkling or still. The name is also given indiscriminately to all Rhenish wines. </p> <p> '''(2):''' ''' (''' n.) Alt. of [[Hough]] </p> <p> '''(3):''' ''' (''' v. t.) To disable by cutting the tendons of the hock; to hamstring; to hough. </p> | ||
== International Standard Bible Encyclopedia <ref name="term_4727" /> == | == International Standard Bible Encyclopedia <ref name="term_4727" /> == | ||
Latest revision as of 06:56, 15 October 2021
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( n.) A Rhenish wine, of a light yellow color, either sparkling or still. The name is also given indiscriminately to all Rhenish wines.
(2): ( n.) Alt. of Hough
(3): ( v. t.) To disable by cutting the tendons of the hock; to hamstring; to hough.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [2]
( עקר , ‛āḳar , "to root out"): To hamstring, i.e. to render useless by cutting the tendons of the hock (in the King James Version and the English Revised Version "hough"). "In their selfwill they hocked an ox" ( Genesis 49:6 , the King James Version "digged down a wall"), in their destructiveness maiming those which they could not carry off: See also Joshua 11:6 , Joshua 11:9; 2 Samuel 8:4 .
