19:28; Isaiah 37:28, 29; Ezekiel 29:4; 38:4). “The Orientals make use of
this contrivance for curbing their work-beasts...When a beast becomes
unruly they have only to draw the cord on one side, which, by stopping
his breath, punishes him so effectually that after a few repetitions he fails
not to become quite tractable whenever he begins to feel it” (Michaelis). So
God’s agents are never beyond his control.
(2.) Hakkah, a fish “hook” (Job 41:2, Hebrews Text, 40:25; Isaiah 19:8;
Habakkuk 1:15).
(3.) Vav, a “peg” on which the curtains of the tabernacle were hung
(Exodus 26:32).
(4.) Tsinnah, a fish-hooks (Amos 4:2).
(5.) Mazleg, flesh-hooks (1 Samuel 2:13, 14), a kind of fork with three
teeth for turning the sacrifices on the fire, etc.
(6.) Mazmeroth, pruning-hooks (Isaiah 2:4; Joel 3:10).
(7.) ‘Agmon (Job 41:2, Hebrews Text 40:26), incorrectly rendered in the
Authorized Version. Properly a rush-rope for binding animals, as in
Revised Version margin.
- HOPE one of the three main elements of Christian character (1
Corinthians 13:13). It is joined to faith and love, and is opposed to seeing
or possessing (Romans 8:24; 1 John 3:2). “Hope is an essential and
fundamental element of Christian life, so essential indeed, that, like faith
and love, it can itself designate the essence of Christianity (1 Peter 3:15;
Hebrews 10:23). In it the whole glory of the Christian vocation is centred
(Ephesians 1:18; 4:4).” Unbelievers are without this hope (Ephesians 2:12;
1 Thessalonians 4:13). Christ is the actual object of the believer’s hope,
because it is in his second coming that the hope of glory will be fulfilled (1
Timothy 1:1; Colossians 1:27; Titus 2:13). It is spoken of as “lively”, i.e.,
a living, hope, a hope not frail and perishable, but having a perennial life (1
Peter 1:3). In Romans 5:2 the “hope” spoken of is probably objective, i.e.,
“the hope set before us,” namely, eternal life (comp. 12:12). In 1 John 3:3
the expression “hope in him” ought rather to be, as in the Revised Version,
“hope on him,” i.e., a hope based on God. - HOPHNI pugilist or client, one of the two sons of Eli, the high priest (1
Samuel 1:3; 2:34), who, because he was “very old,” resigned to them the
active duties of his office. By their scandalous conduct they brought down