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: archive.org: Easton's Bible Dictionary

Cord definition and references: Frequently used in its proper sense, for fastening a tent (Exodus 35:18; 39:40), yoking animals to a cart (Isaiah 5:18), binding prisoners (Judges 15:13; Psalms 2:3; 129:4), and measuring ground (2 Samuel 8;2; Psalms 78:55). Figuratively, death is spoken of as the giving way of the tent-cord (Job 4:21. 鈥淚s not their tent-cord plucked up?鈥� R.V.). To gird one鈥檚 self with a cord was a token of sorrow and humiliation. To stretch a line over a city meant to level it with the ground (Lamentations 2:8). The 鈥渃ords of sin鈥� are the consequences or fruits of sin (Proverbs 5:22). A 鈥渢hreefold cord鈥� is a symbol of union (Ecclesiastes 4:12). The 鈥渃ords of a man鈥� (Hosea 11:4) means that men employ, in inducing each other, methods such as are suitable to men, and not 鈥渃ords鈥� such as oxen are led by. Isaiah (5:18) says, 鈥淲oe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope.鈥� This verse is thus given in the Chaldee paraphrase: 鈥淲oe to those who begin to sin by little and little, drawing sin by cords of vanity: these sins grow and increase till they are strong and are like a cart rope.鈥� This may be the true meaning. The wicked at first draw sin with a slender cord; but by-and-by their sins increase, and they are drawn after them by a cart rope. Henderson in his commentary says: 鈥淭he meaning is that the persons described were not satisfied with ordinary modes of provoking the Deity, and the consequent ordinary approach of his vengeance, but, as it were, yoked themselves in the harness of iniquity, and, putting forth all their strength, drew down upon themselves, with accelerated speed, the load of punishment which their sins deserved.鈥�

: archive.org: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Cord refers to:鈥擳he materials of which cord was made varied according to the strength required; the strongest rope was probably made of strips of camel hide, as still used by the Bedouins. The finer sorts were made of flax, (Isaiah 19:9) and probably of reeds and rushes. In the New Testament the term is applied to the whip which our Saviour made, (John 2:15) and to the ropes of a ship. (Acts 27:32)

: archive.org: Nave's Topical Bible

Cord definition and references: 鈥揂ncient uses of
鈥揑n casting lots Micah 2:5
鈥揊astening tents Exodus 35:18; 39:40; Isaiah 54:2
鈥揕eading or binding animals Psalms 118:27; Hosea 11:4
鈥揌itching to cart or plough Job 39:10
鈥揃inding prisoners Judges 15:13
鈥揗easuring ground 2 Samuel 8:2; Joshua 17:14; Psalms 78:55; Amos 7:17; Zechariah 2:1
鈥揥orn on the head as a sign of submission 1 Kings 20:31
鈥�Figurative
鈥揙f spiritual blessings Psalms 16:6
鈥揙f sin Proverbs 5:22
鈥揙f life Ecclesiastes 12:6
鈥揙f friendship Ecclesiastes 4:12; Hosea 11:4
鈥�Symbolical Uses Of
鈥揟oken in mourning 1 Kings 20:31-33; Job 36:8
鈥揝ignifying an inheritance Joshua 17:14

: archive.org: Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Cord refers to:鈥�"Lengthen thy cords, strengthen thy stakes" (Isaiah 54:2); an image from a tent (appropriate, as the Israelite church was symbolized by the tabernacle); it, when enlarged, needs at once longer cords and stronger stakes. The church must not merely seek new converts, but strengthen in faith existing members. So in Job 4:21, "is not their cord in them unstrung?" or "snapped," so that their earthly tabernacle comes down (2 Corinthians 5:1). In Ecclesiastes 12:6, "or ever the silver cord be loosed or the golden bowl be broken," the meaning is, before life's gilded lamp suspended from on high by the cord of intertwined silk and silver, be broken by the snapping of the cord.

"The golden bowl" may hint at the skull; "the silver cord," the spinal marrow attached to the brain, white and precious as silver. "He hath loosed my cord" (Job 30:11) is animate from a bow unstrung (contrast Job 29:20). In Hosea 11:4, "I drew them with cords of a man," i.e., with human methods, as a father would draw his child by leading strings. In Micah 2:5, "cast a cord by lot" i.e. have any measured out possession, cords being used for measurement (Joshua 13:6; Psalms 16:6).

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