International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: Hock

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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: Hock


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(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” (, the King James Version “digged down a wall”), in their destructiveness maiming those which they could not carry off: See also , ; .