Smith's Bible Dictionary
LockWhere European locks have not been introduced, the locks of eastern houses are usually of wood, and consist of a partly hollow bolt from fourteen inches to two feet long for external doors or gates, or from seven to nine inches for interior doors. The bold passes through a groove in a piece attached to the door into a socket in the door-post.
Easton's Bible Dictionary
The Hebrews usually secured their doors by bars of wood or iron (
Isaiah 45:2;
1 Kings 4:3). These were the locks originally used, and were opened and shut by large keys applied through an opening in the outside (
Judges 3:24). (see
KEY.)
Lock of hair (Judges 16:13, 19; Ezek. 8:3; Numbers 6:5, etc.).
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (
n.) A tuft of hair; a flock or small quantity of wool, hay, or other like substance; a tress or ringlet of hair.
2. (n.) Anything that fastens; specifically, a fastening, as for a door, a lid, a trunk, a drawer, and the like, in which a bolt is moved by a key so as to hold or to release the thing fastened.
3. (n.) A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable.
4. (n.) A place from which egress is prevented, as by a lock.
5. (n.) The barrier or works which confine the water of a stream or canal.
6. (n.) An enclosure in a canal with gates at each end, used in raising or lowering boats as they pass from one level to another; -- called also lift lock.
7. (n.) That part or apparatus of a firearm by which the charge is exploded; as, a matchlock, flintlock, percussion lock, etc.
8. (n.) A device for keeping a wheel from turning.
9. (n.) A grapple in wrestling.
10. (v. t.) To fasten with a lock, or as with a lock; to make fast; to prevent free movement of; as, to lock a door, a carriage wheel, a river, etc.
11. (v. t.) To prevent ingress or access to, or exit from, by fastening the lock or locks of; -- often with up; as, to lock or lock up, a house, jail, room, trunk. etc.
12. (v. t.) To fasten in or out, or to make secure by means of, or as with, locks; to confine, or to shut in or out -- often with up; as, to lock one's self in a room; to lock up the prisoners; to lock up one's silver; to lock intruders out of the house; to lock money into a vault; to lock a child in one's arms; to lock a secret in one's breast.
13. (v. t.) To link together; to clasp closely; as, to lock arms.
14. (v. t.) To furnish with locks; also, to raise or lower (a boat) in a lock.
15. (v. t.) To seize, as the sword arm of an antagonist, by turning the left arm around it, to disarm him.
16. (v. i.) To become fast, as by means of a lock or by interlacing; as, the door locks close.
Strong's Hebrew
6734. tsitsith -- a tassel, lock... << 6733, 6734. tsitsith. 6735 >>. a tassel,
lock. Transliteration: tsitsith Phonetic
Spelling: (tsee-tseeth') Short Definition: tassel.
... fringe,
lock.
... /hebrew/6734.htm - 6k 5274. na'al -- to bar, bolt, lock
... << 5273b, 5274. na'al. 5274a >>. to bar, bolt, lock. Transliteration: na'al Phonetic
Spelling: (naw-al') Short Definition: bolt. bolt, enclose, lock, shoe, shut ...
/hebrew/5274.htm - 5k
5274a. naal -- to bar, bolt, lock
... naal. 5274b >>. to bar, bolt, lock. Transliteration: naal Short Definition: locked. ...
root Definition to bar, bolt, lock NASB Word Usage lock (1), locked (5). ...
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7298b. rahat -- perhaps lock (of hair)
... << 7298a, 7298b. rahat. 7299 >>. perhaps lock (of hair). Transliteration:
rahat Short Definition: tresses. Word Origin from an unused ...
/hebrew/7298b.htm - 5k
4514. manul -- a bolt
... Word Origin from naal Definition a bolt NASB Word Usage bolt (1), bolts (5). lock.
Or maniul {man-ool'}; from na'al; a bolt -- lock. see HEBREW na'al. ...
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6977. qevutstsoth -- locks (of hair)
... lock. Feminine passive participle of quwts in its original sense; a forelock (as
shorn) -- lock. see HEBREW quwts. << 6976, 6977. qevutstsoth. 6978 >>. ...
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4253. machalaphah -- a plait (of hair)
... lock. From chalaph; a ringlet of hair (as gliding over each other) -- lock. see
HEBREW chalaph. << 4252, 4253. machalaphah. 4254 >>. Strong's Numbers.
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6653. tsebathim -- bundles (of grain)
... handful. From an unused root apparently meaning to grip; a lock of stalks --
handful. << 6652, 6653. tsebathim. 6654 >>. Strong's Numbers.
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