(Pronounced hock,) to hamstring, or cut the cords of the hind legs. The horse taken by David from the Syrians were thus disabled, Jos 11:6,9 ; 2Sa 8:4 .<\/p>\n
(, akker’, Piel of , to extirpatee), a method employed by the ancient Israelites to render useless the captured horses of an enemy (Jos 11:6; comp. Gen 49:6), as they were not allowed or able to use that animal (so also 2Sa 8:4; 1Ch 18:4). It consisted in hamstringing, i.e. severing the tendon Achilles of the hinder legs (Sept. ; compare akar; Syr. the same, Barhebr. p. 220). The practice is still common in Arab warfare (Rosenmller, Instituturis Moham. circa bellum, 17). SEE HORSE. <\/p>\n
to hamstring, i.e., sever the “tendon of Achilles” of the hinder legs of captured horses (Josh. 11:6<\/span>; 2 Sam. 8:4<\/span>; 1 Chr. 18:4<\/span>), so as to render them useless.<\/p>\n HOUGH.The hough (modern spelling hock) of a quadruped is the joint between the knee and the fetlock in the hind leg; in man the back of the knee joint, called the ham. To hough is to cut the tendon of the hough, to hamstring. The subst. occurs in 2Es 15:36 the camels hough (AVm [Note: Authorized Version margin.] pastern or litter). The verb is found in Jos 11:6; Jos 11:9, 2Sa 8:4, 1Ch 18:4 always of houghing horses. Tindale translates Gen 49:6 In their selfe-will they houghed an oxe, which is retained in AVm [Note: Authorized Version margin.] , and inserted into the text of RV [Note: Revised Version.] in place of they digged down a wall.<\/p>\n hok. See HOCK.<\/p>\n HOUGH (Pronounced hock,) to hamstring, or cut the cords of the hind legs. The horse taken by David from the Syrians were thus disabled, Jos 11:6,9 ; 2Sa 8:4 . Fuente: American Tract Society Bible Dictionary Hough (, akker’, Piel of , to extirpatee), a method employed by the ancient Israelites to render useless the … Continue reading “Hough”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Hough<\/h2>\n
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Hough<\/h2>\n
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"