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Lock
The Hebrews usually secured their doors by bars of wood or iron (Isa 45:2; 1 Kgs 4:3). These were the locks originally used, and were opened and shut by large keys applied through an opening in the outside (Judg 3:24). (See Key.)
Lock of hair (Judg 16:13, Judg 16:19; Ezek 8:3; Num 6:5, etc.).
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
