Jump to: ISBE • Easton's • Webster's • Concordance • Thesaurus • Greek • Hebrew • Library • Subtopics • Terms Easton's Bible Dictionary (as a punishment), a Mark of infamy inflicted on the dead bodies of criminals (Deuteronomy 21:23) rather than our modern mode of punishment. Criminals were first strangled and then hanged (Numbers 25:4; Deuteronomy 21:22). (See 2 Samuel 21:6 for the practice of the Gibeonites.)Hanging (as a curtain). (1.) Hebrews masak, (a) before the entrance to the court of the tabernacle (Exodus 35:17); (b) before the door of the tabernacle (26:36, 37); (c) before the entrance to the most holy place, called "the veil of the covering" (35:12; 39:34), as the word properly means. (2.) Hebrews kelaim, tapestry covering the walls of the tabernacle (Exodus 27:9; 35:17; Numbers 3:26) to the half of the height of the wall (Exodus 27:18; Comp. 26:16). These hangings were fastened to pillars. (3.) Hebrews bottim (2 Kings 23:7), "hangings for the grove" (R.V., "for the Asherah"); marg., instead of "hangings," has "tents" or "houses." Such curtained structures for idolatrous worship are also alluded to in Ezek. 16:16. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary 1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hang.2. (a.) Requiring, deserving, or foreboding death by the halter. 3. (a.) Suspended from above; pendent; as, hanging shelves. 4. (a.) Adapted for sustaining a hanging object; as, the hanging post of a gate, the post which holds the hinges. 5. (n.) The act of suspending anything; the state of being suspended. 6. (n.) Death by suspension; execution by a halter. 7. (n.) That which is hung as lining or drapery for the walls of a room, as tapestry, paper, etc., or to cover or drape a door or window; -- used chiefly in the plural. International Standard Bible Encyclopedia HANGINGhang'-ing (talah, "to hang up," "suspend," 2 Samuel 21:12 Deuteronomy 28:66 Job 26:7 Psalm 137:2 Songs 4:4; Hosea 11:7): Generally, where the word is used in connection with punishments, it appears to have reference to the hanging of the corpse after execution. We find but two clear instances of death by hanging, i.e. strangulation-those of Ahithophel and Judas ((2 Samuel 17:23 Matthew 27:5), and both these were eases of suicide, not of execution. The foregoing Hebrew word is clearly used for "hanging" as a mode of execution in Esther 5:14; Esther 6:4; Esther 7:9; 8:07; 9:13, 14, 25; but probably the "gallows" or "tree" ('ets) was a stake for the purpose of impaling the victim. It could be lowered for this purpose, then raised "fifty cubits high" to arrest the public gaze. The Greek word used in Matthew 27:5 is apagchesthai, "to strangle oneself." See HDB, article "Hanging," for an exhaustive discussion. Greek 3871. parakalupto -- to cover (by hanging something beside), to ... ... to cover (by hanging something beside), to hide. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: parakalupto Phonetic Spelling: (par-ak-al-oop'-to) Short Definition: I ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/3871.htm - 7k 2910. kremannumi -- to hang 1582. ekkremannumi -- to hang from, hang upon (the lips of a ... Strong's Hebrew 7050b. qela -- a curtain, hanging... 7050a, 7050b. qela. 7051 . a curtain, hanging. Transliteration: qela Short Definition: hangings. Word Origin from qala Definition ... /hebrew/7050b.htm - 5k 4651. mappal -- refuse, hanging parts 7050. qela' -- a sling 4539. masak -- a covering, screen 3499. yether -- remainder, excess, preeminence 3407. yeriah -- curtain 4174. morad -- a descent, slope 8518. talah -- to hang 5414. nathan -- to give, put, set Library Jesus Hanging on the Cross Between Two Thieves. Simplified Spelling. Of the Antipodes, the Heaven, and the Stars. The Annunciation Addition to Acts of Philip. The Apocalypse of the Holy Mother of God Concerning the ... The Scaffolding Left in the Body The Conquest of Babylon. The Apocalypse of Peter. The Brazen Serpent. Thesaurus Hanging (82 Occurrences)... (See 2 Samuel 21:6 for the practice of the Gibeonites.). Hanging (as a curtain). ... 3. (a.) Suspended from above; pendent; as, hanging shelves. ... /h/hanging.htm - 35k Hanging-down (1 Occurrence) Needlework (23 Occurrences) Gallows (8 Occurrences) Hang (37 Occurrences) Needle-work (7 Occurrences) Folded (19 Occurrences) Court-gate (4 Occurrences) Hangings (23 Occurrences) Curtain (60 Occurrences) Bible Concordance Hanging (82 Occurrences)Matthew 27:5 And he put down the silver in the Temple and went out, and put himself to death by hanging. Luke 19:48 and they were not finding what they shall do, for all the people were hanging on him, hearing him. Acts 5:30 The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you killed, hanging him on a tree. Acts 10:39 We are witnesses of everything he did both in the country of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they also killed, hanging him on a tree. Acts 28:4 When the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said one to another, "No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he has escaped from the sea, yet Justice has not allowed to live." Galatians 3:13 Christ has made us free from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us: because it is said in the Writings, A curse on everyone who is put to death by hanging on a tree: Hebrews 12:12 For this cause let the hands which are hanging down be lifted up, and let the feeble knees be made strong, 2 Peter 2:3 and in covetousness, with moulded words, of you they shall make merchandise, whose judgment of old is not idle, and their destruction doth not slumber. Genesis 40:19 After three days Pharaoh will take you out of prison, hanging you on a tree, so that your flesh will be food for birds. Genesis 40:22 But the chief bread-maker was put to death by hanging, as Joseph had said. Genesis 41:13 And it came about as he said: I was put back in my place, and the bread-maker was put to death by hanging. Exodus 26:9 Five of these curtains are to be joined together, and the other six are to be joined together, the sixth being folded over to make a hanging in front of the tent. Exodus 26:12 The overhanging part that remains of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remains, shall hang over the back of the tabernacle. Exodus 26:13 And the cubit which is over of the ten curtains at the sides will be hanging over the two sides of the House as a cover. Exodus 26:32 Hanging it by gold hooks from four pillars of wood, plated with gold and fixed in silver bases. Exodus 26:36 And thou shalt make an hanging for the door of the tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework. Exodus 26:37 And 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 27:16 And for the gate of the court shall be an hanging of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework: and their pillars shall be four, and their sockets four. Exodus 35:12 The ark with its cover and its rods and the veil hanging before it; Exodus 35:15 And the incense altar, and his staves, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the hanging for the door at the entering in of the tabernacle, Exodus 35:17 the hangings of the court, its pillars, their sockets, and the screen for the gate of the court; Exodus 36:37 And he made an hanging for the tabernacle door of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, of needlework; Exodus 38:18 The screen for the gate of the court was the work of the embroiderer, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen. Twenty cubits was the length, and the height in the breadth was five cubits, like to the hangings of the court. Exodus 39:38 And the golden altar, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the hanging for the tabernacle door, Exodus 39:40 the hangings of the court, its pillars, its sockets, the screen for the gate of the court, its cords, its pins, all the instruments of the service of the tabernacle, for the Tent of Meeting, Exodus 40:3 And inside it put the ark of the law, hanging the veil before it. Exodus 40:5 And thou shalt set the altar of gold for the incense before the ark of the testimony, and put the hanging of the door to the tabernacle. Exodus 40:8 And thou shalt set up the court round about, and hang up the hanging at the court gate. Exodus 40:21 And he took the ark into the House, hanging up the veil before it as the Lord had given him orders. Exodus 40:28 And he set up the hanging at the door of the tabernacle. Exodus 40:33 And he reared up the court round about the tabernacle and the altar, and set up the hanging of the court gate. So Moses finished the work. Numbers 3:25 And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of the congregation shall be the tabernacle, and the tent, the covering thereof, and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, Numbers 3:31 And their charge shall be the ark, and the table, and the candlestick, and the altars, and the vessels of the sanctuary wherewith they minister, and the hanging, and all the service thereof. Numbers 4:5 that Aaron and his sons have come in, in the journeying of the camp, and have taken down the vail of the hanging, and have covered with it the ark of the testimony; Numbers 4:25 And they shall bear the curtains of the tabernacle, and the tabernacle of the congregation, his covering, and the covering of the badgers' skins that is above upon it, and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, Numbers 25:4 Then the Lord said to Moses, Take all the chiefs of the people, hanging them up in the sun before the Lord, so that the wrath of the Lord may be turned from Israel. Deuteronomy 21:22 If a man does a crime for which the punishment is death, and he is put to death by hanging him on a tree; Deuteronomy 21:23 Do not let his body be on the tree all night, but put it to rest in the earth the same day; for the man who undergoes hanging is cursed by God; so do not make unclean the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage. Deuteronomy 28:66 Your very life will be hanging in doubt before you, and day and night will be dark with fears, and nothing in life will be certain: Joshua 8:29 And he put the king of Ai to death, hanging him on a tree till evening: and when the sun went down, Joshua gave them orders to take his body down from the tree, and put it in the public place of the town, covering it with a great mass of stones, which is there to this day. Joshua 10:26 Afterward Joshua struck them, put them to death, and hanged them on five trees. They were hanging on the trees until the evening. 1 Samuel 17:6 His legs were covered with plates of brass and hanging on his back was a javelin of brass. 1 Samuel 25:17 Now therefore know and consider what you will do; for evil is determined against our master, and against all his house; for he is such a worthless fellow that one can't speak to him." 2 Samuel 4:12 And David gave orders to his young men and they put them to death, cutting off their hands and their feet and hanging them up by the side of the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bosheth and put it in its last resting-place with Abner's body in Hebron. 2 Samuel 18:9 And Absalom chanced to meet the servants of David. And Absalom was riding upon his mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great terebinth, and his head caught hold of the terebinth, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under him went on. 2 Samuel 18:10 A certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, "Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak." 2 Samuel 20:8 When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa came face to face with them. Now Joab had on his war-dress, and round him a band from which his sword was hanging in its cover; and while he was walking, it came out, falling to the earth. 2 Samuel 21:6 Let seven men of his family be given up to us and we will put an end to them by hanging them before the Lord in Gibeon, on the hill of the Lord. And the king said, I will give them. 2 Samuel 21:9 And he gave them up to the Gibeonites, and they put them to death, hanging them on the mountain before the Lord; all seven came to their end together in the first days of the grain-cutting, at the start of the cutting of the barley. 2 Samuel 21:12 And David went and took the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan from the men of Jabesh-gilead, who had taken them away secretly from the public place of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had put them, hanging up the bodies there on the day when they put Saul to death in Gilboa: 2 Samuel 21:13 And he took the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan from that place; and they got together the bones of those who had been put to death by hanging. 1 Kings 4:33 He made sayings about all plants, from the cedar in Lebanon to the hyssop hanging on the wall; and about all beasts and birds and fishes and the small things of the earth. 1 Kings 7:29 and on the panels that were between the ledges were lions, oxen, and cherubim; and on the ledges there was a pedestal above; and beneath the lions and oxen were wreaths of hanging work. Esther 2:23 And when the thing had been looked into, it was seen to be true, and the two of them were put to death by hanging on a tree: and it was put down in the records before the king. Esther 5:14 Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, "Let a gallows be made fifty cubits high, and in the morning speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on it. Then go in merrily with the king to the banquet." This pleased Haman, so he had the gallows made. Esther 6:4 The king said, "Who is in the court?" Now Haman had come into the outer court of the king's house, to speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him. Esther 7:9 Then Harbonah, one of the unsexed servants waiting before the king, said, See, the pillar fifty cubits high, which Haman made for Mordecai, who said a good word for the king, is still in its place in Haman's house. Then the king said, Put him to death by hanging him on it. Esther 7:10 So Haman was put to death by hanging him on the pillar he had made for Mordecai. Then the king's wrath became less. Esther 8:7 Then King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew, See now, I have given Esther the family of Haman, and he has come to his death by hanging, because he made an attack on the Jews. Esther 9:13 Then Esther said, If it is the king's pleasure, let authority be given to the Jews in Shushan to do tomorrow as has been done today, and let orders be given for the hanging of Haman's ten sons. Esther 9:14 And the king said that this was to be done, and the order was given out in Shushan, and the hanging of Haman's ten sons was effected. Esther 9:25 But when the business was put before the king, he gave orders by letters that the evil design which he had made against the Jews was to be turned against himself; and that he and his sons were to be put to death by hanging. Job 26:7 By his hand the north is stretched out in space, and the earth is hanging on nothing. Job 28:4 He makes a deep mine far away from those living in the light of day; when they go about on the earth, they have no knowledge of those who are under them, who are hanging far from men, twisting from side to side on a cord. Psalms 137:2 Hanging our instruments of music on the trees by the waterside. Proverbs 3:3 Let not mercy and good faith go from you; let them be hanging round your neck, recorded on your heart; Proverbs 6:21 Keep them ever folded in your heart, and have them hanging round your neck. Proverbs 26:7 The legs of one who has no power of walking are hanging loose; so is a wise saying in the mouth of the foolish. Song of Songs 4:4 Your neck is like the tower of David made for a store-house of arms, in which a thousand breastplates are hanging, breastplates for fighting-men. Isaiah 22:24 And all the glory of his father's family will be hanging on him, all their offspring, every small vessel, even the cups and the basins. Isaiah 22:25 In that day, says the Lord of armies, will the nail fixed in a safe place give way; and it will be cut down, and in its fall the weight hanging on it will be cut off, for the Lord has said it. Isaiah 40:15 See, the nations are to him like a drop hanging from a bucket, and like the small dust in the scales: he takes up the islands like small dust. Jeremiah 10:20 My tent is pulled down and all my cords are broken: my children have gone from me, and they are not: no longer is there anyone to give help in stretching out my tent and hanging up my curtains. Lamentations 4:8 Their face is blacker than night; in the streets no one has knowledge of them: their skin is hanging on their bones, they are dry, they have become like wood. Lamentations 5:12 Their hands put princes to death by hanging: the faces of old men were not honoured. Ezekiel 15:3 Will its wood be used for any work? do men make of it a pin for hanging any vessel on? Ezekiel 23:15 With bands round their bodies and with head-dresses hanging round their heads, all of them looking like rulers, like the Babylonians, the land of whose birth is Chaldaea. Ezekiel 27:10 Cush and Lud and Put were in your army, your men of war, hanging up their body-covers and head-dresses of war in you: they gave you your glory. Ezekiel 27:11 The men of Arvad in your army were on your walls, and were watchmen in your towers, hanging up their arms on your walls round about; they made you completely beautiful. Ezekiel 29:4 And I will put hooks in your mouth, and the fish of your streams will be hanging from your skin; and I will make you come up out of your streams, with all the fish of your streams hanging from your skin. Ezekiel 30:25 And I will make the arms of the king of Babylon strong, and the arms of Pharaoh will be hanging down; and they will be certain that I am the Lord, when I put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon and it is stretched out against the land of Egypt. Hosea 11:7 And My people are hanging in suspense, about My returning, And unto the Most High they do call, Together they exalt not. Subtopics Hanging: Capital Punishment By Hanging: The Curse of Death By Related Terms Tabernacle-door (2 Occurrences) Grain-cutting (19 Occurrences) Links Bible Concordance • Bible Dictionary • Bible Encyclopedia • Topical Bible • Bible Thesuarus |
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