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HANGING
(as a punishment), a mark of infamy inflicted on the dead bodies of criminals (Deut. 21:23) rather than our modern mode of punishment. Criminals were first strangled and then hanged (Nu. 25:4; Deut. 21:22). (See 2-Sam 21:6 for the practice of the Gibeonites.) Hanging (as a curtain). (1.) Heb. masak, (a) before the entrance to the court of the tabernacle (Exo 35:17); (b) before the door of the tabernacle (26:36, 26: 37); (c) before the entrance to the most holy place, called "the veil of the covering" (35:12;39:34), as the word properly means. (2.) Heb. kelaim, tapestry covering the walls of the tabernacle (Exo 27:9;35:17; Num. 3:26) to the half of the height of the wall (Exo 27:18; 26:16). These hangings were fastened to pillars. (3.) Heb. bottim (2-Kings 23:7), "hangings for the grove" (R.V., "for the Asherah"); marg., instead of "hangings," has "tents" or "houses." Such curtained structures for idolatrous worship are also alluded to in Ezek. 16:16.
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