Hebrew noun (masculine) · H2397
חָח
chachkhawkh
hook
7 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: châch
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2397is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2397
a ring for the nose (or lips)
The King James renders it: bracelet, chain, hook.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
chach is rendered "hook". It stands 7 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Four of the uses stand in Ezekiel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 35:22So all who had willing hearts, both men and women, came and brought brooches and earrings, rings and necklaces, and all kinds of gold jewelry. And they all presented their gold as a wave offering to the LORD.
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
So all who had willing hearts, both men and women, came and brought brooches and earrings, rings and necklaces, and all kinds of gold jewelry. And they all presented their gold as a wave offering to the LORD.
Exodus 35:22חָ֣ח
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- hook my2
- hooks2
- with the hooks2
- nose ring1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 7, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- חַחִ֜י2
- בַֽחַחִ֖ים1
- בַּֽחַחִ֔ים1
- חָ֣ח1
- חַחִים֙1
- חַחִ֖ים1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine plural2HNcmpa
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular2HNcmsc/Sp1bs
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine plural2HRd/Ncmpa
- noun · masculine singular1HNcmsa
Exodus
one use
So all who had willing hearts, both men and women, came and brought brooches and earrings, rings and necklaces, and all kinds of gold jewelry. And they all presented their gold as a wave offering to the LORD.
- חָ֣חchachnoun · masculine singulartagged: nose ring
2 Kings
one use
Because your rage and arrogance against Me have reached My ears, I will put My hook in your nose and My bit in your mouth; I will send you back the way you came.’
- חַחִ֜יchachinoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: hook my
Isaiah
one use
Because your rage and arrogance against Me have reached My ears, I will put My hook in your nose and My bit in your mouth; I will send you back the way you came.’
- חַחִ֜יchachinoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: hook my
Ezekiel
four uses
When the nations heard of him, he was trapped in their pit. With hooks they led him away to the land of Egypt.
- בַֽחַחִ֖יםvachachimpreposition with the article + noun · masculine pluraltagged: with the hooks
With hooks they caged him and brought him to the king of Babylon. They brought him into captivity so that his roar was heard no longer on the mountains of Israel.
- בַּֽחַחִ֔יםbachachimpreposition with the article + noun · masculine pluraltagged: with the hooks
But I will put hooks in your jaws and cause the fish of your streams to cling to your scales. I will haul you up out of your rivers, and all the fish of your streams will cling to your scales.
- חַחִים֙chachiyimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: hooks
I will turn you around, put hooks in your jaws, and bring you out with all your army—your horses, your horsemen in full armor, and a great company armed with shields and bucklers, all brandishing their swords.
- חַחִ֖יםchachimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: hooks
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.