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title: חַכָּה — hook · The Tanakh dictionary
description: חַכָּה (2443), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: hook. BDB 1906: n.f. hook fish-hook. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# חַכָּה

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«חַכָּה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **hook** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 3 times · **Key:** 2443 · **BDB:** חַכָּה²

### Glosses

a.fish.hook (3)

### Meaning (OSHB)

hook [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2443/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. hook fish-hook [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2443/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. hook fastened in jaw, fish-hook (NH id., Aramaic חַכְּתָא)—abs. ח׳ Jb 40:25 + 2 times;—כָּל־מַשְׁלִיכֵי בַיְאֹר חַכָּ֑ה Is 19:8 (‖ הַדַּיָּגִים), כֻּלֹּה בְּחַכָּה הֵעֲלָה Hb 1:15 (of אדם, who, v 14, is comp. to דְּגֵי הַיָּם, and רֶמֶשׂ), cf. תִּמְשֹׁךְ לִוְיָתָן בְּחַכָּ֑ה Jb 40:25.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «חַכָּה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2443/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 40:25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.40.25/)

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תִּמְשֹׁ֣ךְ לִוְיָתָ֣ן בְּחַכָּ֑ה וּ֝בְחֶ֗בֶל תַּשְׁקִ֥יעַ לְשֹׁנֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* will.you.draw.out? Leviathan with a.fish.hook and with a.cord will.you.make.sink? tongue its

*JPS 1917:* Canst thou draw out leviathan with a fish-hook? or press down his tongue with a cord?

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[Isaiah 19:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.19.8/)

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וְאָנוּ֙ הַדַּיָּגִ֔ים וְאָ֣בְל֔וּ כָּל־מַשְׁלִיכֵ֥י בַיְא֖וֹר חַכָּ֑ה וּפֹרְשֵׂ֥י מִכְמֹ֛רֶת עַל־פְּנֵי־מַ֖יִם אֻמְלָֽלוּ׃

*Word for word:* and they.will.lament the fishermen and they.will.mourn all \[those.who\].cast in the River a.fish.hook and \[those.who\].spread.out (of).a.fishing.net on \[the\].surface of.\[the\].waters they.will.languish

*JPS 1917:* The fishers also shall lament, and all they that cast angle into the Nile shall mourn, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.

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