Easton's Bible Dictionary The Hebrews usually secured their doors by bars of wood or iron (Isaiah 45:2; 1 Kings 4:3). These were the locks originally used, and were opened and shut by large keys applied through an opening in the outside (Judges 3:24). (see KEY.) Lock of hair (Judges 16:13, 19; Ezek. 8:3; Numbers 6:5, etc.). Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) A tuft of hair; a flock or small quantity of wool, hay, or other like substance; a tress or ringlet of hair. 2. (n.) Anything that fastens; specifically, a fastening, as for a door, a lid, a trunk, a drawer, and the like, in which a bolt is moved by a key so as to hold or to release the thing fastened. 3. (n.) A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable. 4. (n.) A place from which egress is prevented, as by a lock. 5. (n.) The barrier or works which confine the water of a stream or canal. 6. (n.) An enclosure in a canal with gates at each end, used in raising or lowering boats as they pass from one level to another; -- called also lift lock. 7. (n.) That part or apparatus of a firearm by which the charge is exploded; as, a matchlock, flintlock, percussion lock, etc. 8. (n.) A device for keeping a wheel from turning. 9. (n.) A grapple in wrestling. 10. (v. t.) To fasten with a lock, or as with a lock; to make fast; to prevent free movement of; as, to lock a door, a carriage wheel, a river, etc. 11. (v. t.) To prevent ingress or access to, or exit from, by fastening the lock or locks of; -- often with up; as, to lock or lock up, a house, jail, room, trunk. etc. 12. (v. t.) To fasten in or out, or to make secure by means of, or as with, locks; to confine, or to shut in or out -- often with up; as, to lock one's self in a room; to lock up the prisoners; to lock up one's silver; to lock intruders out of the house; to lock money into a vault; to lock a child in one's arms; to lock a secret in one's breast. 13. (v. t.) To link together; to clasp closely; as, to lock arms. 14. (v. t.) To furnish with locks; also, to raise or lower (a boat) in a lock. 15. (v. t.) To seize, as the sword arm of an antagonist, by turning the left arm around it, to disarm him. 16. (v. i.) To become fast, as by means of a lock or by interlacing; as, the door locks close.

Multi-Version Concordance Lock (6 Occurrences) Matthew 23:13 "But alas for you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for you lock the door of the Kingdom of the Heavens against men; you yourselves do not enter, nor do you allow those to enter who are seeking to do so. (WEY) Acts 26:10 This I also did in Jerusalem. I both shut up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests, and when they were put to death I gave my vote against them. (See NAS) 2 Samuel 13:17 Then he gave a cry to the servant who was waiting on him and said, Put this woman out, and let the door be locked after her. (Root in BBE NAS) Song of Songs 5:5 I rose up to open for my beloved. My hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with liquid myrrh, on the handles of the lock. (WEB KJV BBE DBY WBS YLT NIV) Ezekiel 8:3 He put forth the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my head; and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and the sky, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the gate of the inner court that looks toward the north; where there was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV) Ezekiel 44:20 Neither shall they shave their heads, nor allow their locks to grow long; they shall only cut off the hair of their heads. (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)