Hock

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

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Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'HOCK'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.  
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