Rope

Passages on this topic

From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index. The groupings are Nave’s; the verses are shown in the text used across this site.

Threefold

• Ecclesiastes 4:12 And though one may be overpowered, two can resist. Moreover, a cord of three strands is not quickly broken.

Worn on the head as an emblem of servitude

• 1 Kings 20:31–32 Then the servants of Ben-hadad said to him, “Look now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful. Let us go out to the king of Israel with sackcloth around our waists and ropes around our heads. Perhaps he will spare your life.” So with sackcloth around their waists and ropes…

Used in casting lots

• Micah 2:5 Therefore, you will have no one in the assembly of the LORD to divide the land by lot.

Figurative

Of love

• Hosea 11:4 I led them with cords of kindness, with ropes of love; I lifted the yoke from their necks and bent down to feed them.

Of affliction

• Job 36:8 And if men are bound with chains, caught in cords of affliction,

Of temptations

• Psalm 140:5 The proud hide a snare for me; the cords of their net are spread along the path, and lures are set out for me. Selah
• Proverbs 5:22 The iniquities of a wicked man entrap him; the cords of his sin entangle him.