This verb is a variant form of the more common 'hang' verb, appearing only twice. In Deuteronomy 28:66, Moses warns that disobedient Israel's 'life shall hang in doubt before you'—meaning suspended in uncertainty, each moment precarious. In Hosea 11:7, the text is difficult but seems to say 'my people are hung up to backsliding'—bent toward or swung toward turning away from God (though many scholars suspect textual corruption here). The image in both cases involves suspension—either of life in precarious uncertainty or of a people swaying toward apostasy.