hook

Boyd’s Bible Dictionary:

Various kinds
Fishing (Job 41:22Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn? (Job 41:2)); leading (2 Kings 19:2828Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest. (2 Kings 19:28)); pruning (Isa. 2:44And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. (Isaiah 2:4)); hanging meats (Ezek. 40:4343And within were hooks, an hand broad, fastened round about: and upon the tables was the flesh of the offering. (Ezekiel 40:43)); curtains (Ex. 26:32-3732And thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of shittim wood overlaid with gold: their hooks shall be of gold, upon the four sockets of silver. 33And thou shalt hang up the vail under the taches, that thou mayest bring in thither within the vail the ark of the testimony: and the vail shall divide unto you between the holy place and the most holy. 34And thou shalt put the mercy seat upon the ark of the testimony in the most holy place. 35And thou shalt set the table without the vail, and the candlestick over against the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south: and thou shalt put the table on the north side. 36And thou shalt make an hanging for the door of the tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework. 37And thou shalt make for the hanging five pillars of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, and their hooks shall be of gold: and thou shalt cast five sockets of brass for them. (Exodus 26:32‑37)); lifting boiled food (1 Sam. 2:1313And the priests' custom with the people was, that, when any man offered sacrifice, the priest's servant came, while the flesh was in seething, with a fleshhook of three teeth in his hand; (1 Samuel 2:13)).

Strong’s Dictionary of Hebrew Words:

Number:
2053 (find all occurrences in KJV Bible)
Transliteration:
vav
Phonic:
vaw
Meaning:
probably a hook (the name of the sixth Heb. letter)
KJV Usage:
hook