Schaff's Bible Dictionary
HOOKS. Various kinds of hooks are mentioned in the Bible. Fish-hooks. See Fish-hooks. The "hook" of 2 Kgs 19:28; Eze 29:4 was probably a ring put through the nose of wild beasts, or, according to the inhuman practice of the ancient Orientals, of human beings. In Job 41:2 such a ring is spoken of, called "thorn." Pruning-hooks, knives hooked at one end. Isa 2:4; Isa 18:5. Flesh-hooks, for getting the flesh out of the caldrons. Eze 27:3; 1 Sam
2:13-14. Hooks to which the carcass was suspended while being flayed, Eze 40:43. This meaning is, however, disputed. Hooks by which the curtains of the tabernacle were suspended, Ex 26:32, Ex 26:37.