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Hough

Easton's Bible Dictionary

To hamstring, i.e., sever the “tendon of Achilles” of the hinder legs of captured horses (Josh 11:6; 2 Sam 8:4; 1 Chr 18:4), so as to render them useless.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

Hock

(`aqar, "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" (Gen 49:6, the King James Version "digged down a wall"), in their destructiveness maiming those which they could not carry off: See also Josh 11:6; Josh 11:9; 2 Sam 8:4.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

hok.

See HOCK.

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