rope

A twisted or braided line. Rope could be made of cloth, string, leather, vine, or any other strong material. It could be used as a belt (Isa 3:24), as a means of escape (Josh 2:15), as a device to trap someone or something (Job 18:10), to lead a beast (Job 41:2), to tie a prisoner (Judg 15:13), to destroy a city (2Sam 17:13), to symbolize submission (1Kgs 20:31-32), to guide a domestic animal (Job 39:10), to pull a vehicle (Isa 5:18), to lower someone into a pit or cistern (Jer 38:6; Jer 38:11), or as marine rigging (Acts 27:32; Acts 27:40).