Hock
Hock
(, akar, 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 (Gen 49:6, the King James Version digged down a wall), in their destructiveness maiming those which they could not carry off: See also Jos 11:6, Jos 11:9; 2Sa 8:4.