Hoof

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Exodus 10:26Ezekiel 32:13Isaiah 5:28Leviticus 11:3Deuteronomy 14:7

Holman Bible Dictionary

Deuteronomy 14:6-7

King James Dictionary

HOOF, n.

1. The horny substance that covers or terminates the feet of certain animals, as horses, oxen, sheep, goats, deer, &c. 2. An animal a beast.

He had not a single hoof of any kind to slaughter.

HOOF, To walk, as cattle. Little used.

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) A hoofed animal; a beast.

(2):

(n.) The horny substance or case that covers or terminates the feet of certain animals, as horses, oxen, etc.

(3):

(v. i.) To be on a tramp; to foot.

(4):

(v. i.) To walk as cattle.

(5):

(n.) See Ungula.

Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types

Leviticus 11:3 (c) The teaching of this passage may be that the hoof which is divided represents a walk that is divided. Those who walk with GOD should not pretend to be walking with the world. Those who walk with the world should not pretend to the walking with GOD. The Lord calls us to a path of separation. We are to walk in the Spirit as a consecrated people. Otherwise, we are not true to our Lord.

2 Kings 19:28 (a) This type is used by the Lord to describe His power and ability to return Sennacherib back to his own land, and the ease with which He would do it. It is as though GOD put a bridle on Sennacherib and directed him back to his own land. It might be described as a farmer putting a ring in the nose of a bull, or a fisherman catching a fish with a hook and line. (See2Ki 19:35 and2Ki 19:37; Isaiah 37:29; Proverbs 21:1).

Ezekiel 29:4 (a) This figure represents the power of the enemy to subdue and conquer Pharaoh. Assyria was probably the one who used the hook, and the hooks were his various types of warfare and war machines. He chained his captives. The same figure applies to Gog and Magog in Ezekiel 38:4. Here it refers especially to that great day when GOD will come to judge the nations of the earth and to tame their wrath.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

hoof . See Chew; Cloven .

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(פִּרְסָה, parsah', cloven, i.e. a cleft hoof as of neat cattle, Exodus 10:26; Ezekiel 22; Micah 4:13, etc.; hence of the horse, though not cloven, Isaiah 5:28; Jeremiah 57:3; "claws" of any animal, Zechariah 11:16). In Leviticus 11:3 sq.; Deuteronomy 4:6 sq., the "parting of the hoof" is made one of the main distinctions between clean and unclean animals; and this is applied even to the camel, after a popular rather than a scientific classification. (See Camel).