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The meaning of Hock in the Bible
(From International Standard Bible Encyclopedia)('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, Joshua 11:9; II Samuel 8:4.
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