CORBE (k6r'be), (Gr. Xopfil, kor-be', I Esdr. v: iv, a name apparently answering to Zaccai in the lists of Ezra and Nehemiah. It should have been spelled Chorbe to correspond with the Greek.
CORD (lcord), (Heb. kheh'bel, rope, cord).
(1) The Material of which cord was made varied according to the strength required. Wil kinson says that flax was used for making ropes, string, and various kinds of twine; for large ropes, however, of ordinary quality and for common pur poses, the fibers of the date tree were employed, as at the present day. The strongest rope was probably made of strips of camel hide, still used by the Bedouins for drawing water. Other mate rials are mentioned, as reeds, rushes, osier, etc.
(2) Uses. The following uses of cord are men tioned: (i) For fastening a tent (Exod. xxxv: 18 ; xxxix :40 ; Is. liv :2). (2) For leading or binding animals, as a halter or rein (Psa. cxviii : 27; Hos. xi :4). (3) For yoking them either to a cart (Is. v :18) or a plow (Job xxxix ilo, A. V. "band"). (4) For binding prisoners (Judg. xv :13 ; Ps. ii :3 ; cxxix :4 ; Ezek. iii:25). (5) For bowstrings (Ps. xi :2) made of catgut such are spoken of in Judg. xvi :7 (A. V. "green withes," but more properly fresh or moist bow strings). (6) For the ropes or "trackings" of a vessel (Is. xxxiii :23 ). (7) For measuring ground (2 Sam. viii:2; Jer. xxxi:39; Amos vii: 17; Zech. ii:I); hence cord or line became an expression for an inheritance (Josh. xvii:14; xix:9; Ps. xvi:6; Ezek. xlvii:13), and even for any defined district (Dent. (8) For fishing and snaring. (9) For attaching articles of dress, as the "wreathen chains," which were rather twisted cords, worn by the high priests (Exod. xxviii :14, 22, 24; xxxix:15, 17). (to) For fastening awnings (Esth. i :6). (II) For attaching to a plummet. (12) For drawing water out of a well or raising heavy weights (Josh. ii :15 ; Jer. xxxviii :6, 13). (Mc. & Str. Bib. Cyc.) FiguratiVe. (I) To put cords about one's reins, to gird one's self with a cord, was a token of sorrow and humiliation (Job xii :18; i Kings xx:31,32). (2) Cord is often used for inheritance: "I will give thee the land of Canaan, the cord of thine inheritance," Psalm cv :II, margin. "Joseph path a double cord," (Ezek. xlvii :13. Eng. tr. two portion.•) ; • which expression originated from the custom of measuring land with a cord. So
Joshua distributed to every tribe a certain num ber of cords, or acres. (3) "My cords (Eng. tr. the lines, thzt is, my lot) are fallen unto me in pleasant places" (Ps. xvi :6). (4) To stretch a cord or line about a city signifies, to ruin it, to destroy it entirely, to level it with the ground (Lam. ii :8). (5) The cords extended in setting up tents furnish several metaphors (Is. xxxiii :2o; Jer. x :20). (6) The silver cord, that is broken at death, is the pith or marrow of the back-bone, the spinal cord (Eccles. xii :6). (7) The cords of God, which wicked men cast from them, are his government and laws, which are un easy to them as they restrain their liberty, and bind them to duties which they hate. (Ps. ii :3). (8) God draws with cords of a man, and bands of love, when he employs rational and gentle argu ments, and humane methods, such as men em ploy when inducing others, as, for instance, a fa ther guiding a child, who is learning to walk, with leading strings. (9) The cords of a church or state, are her constitutions, laws, rulers, power, and wealth, which connect and establish the vari ous parts of it ; and by the ruin of the former of which, the church and the state are disordered or dissolved (Is. liv :2 ; Jer. x :20). (to) The harmonious society of friends is a three-fold cord, not easily broken ; each contributes to strengthen and support the whole body (Eccl. iv :12). (II) The cords of sinners, are the snares by which they catch and ruin weak and innocent persons. (Ps. cxxix :4, and cx1:5). (12) The cords of sins are their corrupt lusts, and habits, the curse of God's law, and the punishment denounced by it, which hold transgressors that they cannot es cape. (Prov. v :22). (13) Men draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as with a cart rope, when, with unsubstantial pretences of pleasure, profit, and the like, they engage themselves and others to act wickedly; and, with all their might and dili gence, endeavor to commit it (Is. v :18). (14) Afflictions are cords; they restrain our liberty, and ought to draw us to God; nor can we free our selves from them at pleasure (Job xxxvi :8).
CORE (ko're), (Gr. Bope, ko-re'), the Greek form of Korah, Ecclus. xiv:i8; Jude II). (See KOR AH, I).