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Various words are used for these instruments of punishment.
1. mahpecheth, a wooden frame in which the feet, hands, and neck of a person were so fastened that his body was kept bent. Jeremiah was subjected to this punishment. Jer. 20: 2, 3.
2. sad: stocks in which the feet were shut up. Job 13: 27; Job 33: 11; Acts 16: 24 (ξύλον).
3. tsinoq: stocks which confined the hands and the feet. Jer. 29: 26.
4. ekes, 'a fetter or ankle-band.' Prov. 7: 22.