cord

Then she let them down by a cord through the window: for her house was upon the town wall, and she dwelt upon the wall.

Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.

Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?

And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.

Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot in the congregation of the LORD.

The women also with cords about them, sitting in the ways, burn bran for perfume: but if any of them, drawn by some that passeth by, lie with him, she reproacheth her fellow, that she was not thought as worthy as herself, nor her cord broken.

Then they put a cord round Thecla's waist, which bound also her feet, and with it tied her to the bulls, to whose privy-parts they applied red-hot irons, that so they being the more tormented, might more violently drag Thecla about, till they had killed her.

And there were layers of precious stones on it in the midst of the embossed cord-work, and they were interwoven with one another by an inimitable artistic device.