Bible dictionaries
Hoof
What Bible dictionaries say about “Hoof”, one article after the other.
Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary
Hoof - (Easton's Bible Dictionary)
A cleft hoof as of neat cattle (Ex. 10:26; Ezek. 32:13); hence also of the horse, though not cloven (Isa. 5:28). The "parting of the hoof" is one of the distinctions between clean and unclean animals (Lev. 11:3; Deut. 14:7).
Hoof - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)
HOOF, n.
1. The horny substance that covers or terminates the feet of certain animals, as horses, oxen, sheep, goats, deer, _c.
2. An animal; a beast.
He had not a single hoof of any kind to slaughter.
HOOF, v.i. To walk, as cattle. [Little used.]
Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)
The article in Easton + Webster 1828International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE 1915)
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia — James Orr, general editor and contributors; CrossWire SWORD module ISBE 2.2
The article in ISBE 1915