a hook lit. a cord of rush.
a thorn That is, a spike.
The reference in the first clause may be to the habit of passing a cord through the gills of fish when caught, and letting them down into the water again, to preserve them in freshness.
Verse Job 41:2. _CANST THOU PUT A HOOK ONTO HIS NOSE?_] Canst thou put a ring in his nose, and lead him about as thou dost thine ox? In the East they frequently lead thy oxen and buffaloes with a ring...
CANST THOU PUT A HOOK INTO HIS NOSE - Or rather, a “rope,” or “cord.” The word used here (אגמון _'agmôn_) means “a caldron,” or “kettle” Job 41:20, also a reed, or bulrush, growing in marshy places,...
CHAPTER 41 _ 1. Leviathan, the untamable beast of power (Job 41:1)_ 2. Its description (Job 41:12) 3. His remarkable strength (Job 41:25)...
JOB 41. LEVIATHAN. The author regards the crocodile as impossible of capture. In Job 41:1 b perhaps the meaning is that when caught the crocodile cannot be led about by a rope round his tongue and low...
JOB 40:15 TO JOB 41:34. BEHEMOTH AND LEVIATHAN. Most scholars regard this passage as a later addition to the poem. The point of Job 40:8 is God's reply to Job's criticism of His righteousness; the des...
HOOK. reed....
CANST THOU PUT AN HOOK INTO HIS NOSE?— _Canst thou put a bandage about his nose?_ Heath. The word אגמון _agmon,_ rendered _bandage_ signifies _a rope of rushes._ This was to tie his mouth fast, as _th...
TEXT 41:1-34 41 Canst thou draw out leviathan with a fishhook? Or press down his tongue with a cord? 2 Canst thou put a rope Into his nose? Or pierce his jaw through with a hook? 3 Will he make ma...
_CANST THOU PUT AN HOOK INTO HIS NOSE? OR BORE HIS JAW THROUGH WITH A THORN?_ Hook - rather, a rope of rushes х_ 'AGMOWN_ (H100)]. THORN - rather, a ring or hook х_ CHOWACH_ (H2336)]. So wild beasts...
41:2 rush-rope (g-5) Or 'rush.'...
HOOK] RM 'rope of rushes.' THORN] RV 'hook.'...
THE SECOND SPEECH OF THE ALMIGHTY (CONCLUDED) The second great creature, the Crocodile (with which the 'leviathan' is generally identified) is now described. If Job cannot control the crocodile, dare...
At the end of God’s speech, God described another strong animal. We think that God was describing a dangerous animal called the crocodile. The crocodile lives in rivers. But it can also walk on the la...
JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 41 GOD FINISHES HIS SPEECH...
HOOK. — Or, _cord of rush._ A THORN. — Or, _spike_ or _hook. _...
_[Job 40:26]_ הֲ תָשִׂ֣ים אַגְמֹ֣ון בְּ אַפֹּ֑ו...
XXVIII. THE RECONCILIATION Job 38:1 - Job 42:6 THE main argument of the address ascribed to the Almighty is contained in Chapter s 38 and 39 and in the opening verses of chapter 42. Job makes submis...
THE PARABLE OF THE CROCODILE Job 41:1 The last paragraph described the hippopotamus; the whole of this chapter is devoted to the crocodile. In a series of striking questions the voice of the Almighty...
Leviathan is almost certainly the crocodile, and there is the playfulness of a great tenderness in the suggestions Jehovah makes to Job about these fierce creations. Can Job catch him with a rope or a...
Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or (m) bore his jaw through with a thorn? (m) Because he fears lest you should take him....
(1) В¶ Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down? (2) Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn? (3) Will he make m...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 38 THROUGH 42. Jehovah then speaks, and addressing Job, carries on the subject. He makes Job sensible of his nothingness. Job confesses himself to be vile, an...
CANST THOU PUT AN HOOK INTO HIS NOSE?.... Or a rush, that is, a rope made of rushes; for of such ropes were made, as Pliny g affirms; OR BORE HIS JAW THROUGH WITH A THORN? as men do herrings, or such...
Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn? Ver. 2. _Canst thou put a hook into his nose?_] Canst thou ring him like a swine, or rule him like a bear? God can, and did...
_Canst thou put a hook_ Hebrew, אגמן, _agmon, a bulrush_, that is, a hook like a bulrush, with its head hanging down, as is expressed Isaiah 58:5; _into his nose?_ To hang him up by it for sale, or to...
JOB'S WEAKNESS WHEN COMPARED WITH THE STRENGTH OF THE CROCODILE...
Canst thou put an hook, a ring made of plaited rushes, such as were drawn through the gills of captured fishes to prevent their escaping, INTO HIS NOSE, OR BORE HIS JAW THROUGH WITH A THORN, with an i...
LEVIATHAN (vv.1-34) Leviathan was a water creature, and appears to be the crocodile, the most fearsome of all aquatic beasts, unless it was another similar animal, now extinct. Job could use a hook...
AN HOOK, Heb. _a bulrush_, i.e. a hook like a bulrush, with its head hanging down, as is expressed, ISAIAH 58:5. INTO HIS NOSE, to hang him up by it for sale, or to carry him home for use, after thou...
Job 41:2 put H7760 (H8799) reed H100 nose H639 pierce H5344 (H8799) jaw H3895 hook H2336...
CONTENTS: God's challenge to Job concluded. CHARACTERS: God, Job. CONCLUSION: Man is utterly unable to contend against the Almighty. If the inferior creatures keep man in awe, how wonderful must the...
Job 41:1. _Canst thou draw out leviathan?_ This word is rendered by the LXX, “dragon.” It occurs in Isaiah 27:1, and is rendered _whale, dragon,_ and _serpent._ Men are now satisfied that it is not th...
_Canst thou draw out Leviathan?_ BEHEMOTH AND LEVIATHAN The description of the “behemoth” in the preceding chapter and the “leviathan” here suggests a few moral reflections. I. The prodigality of c...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 41:1 The Lord describes the power of LEVIATHAN in terms of man’s inability to subdue him. He compares such power to his own (vv. Job 41:9)....
NOTES Job 41:1. “_Canst thou draw out Leviathan with a hook_.” The term “Leviathan” (לִוְיָתָן) rendered here by the SEPTUAGINT, SYRIAC, and ARABIC, “the dragon.” The VULGATE and TARGUM leave it untra...
EXPOSITION JOB 41:1 The crowning description of a natural marvel—the "leviathan," or crocodile—is now given, and with an elaboration to which there is no parallel in the rest of Scripture. It forms,...
And then in the next chapter God speaks of the leviathan. Now just what the leviathan is, they're not quite sure. Some think that it is perhaps a crocodile, some think that it's perhaps even a dragon,...
Ezekiel 29:4; Ezekiel 29:5; Isaiah 27:1; Isaiah 37:29...
Thorn — Or, with an iron hook, or instrument as sharp as a thorn; wherewith thou usest to carry little fishes....