2 Kings 19:28
Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
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Bridle
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James 3:2
For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
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רֶסֶן
reçen · reh'-sen
4 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
a halter (as restraining); by implication, the jaw
Strong's KJV usage: bridle.
Strong's first: Job 30:11Strong's last: Isaiah 30:28
Open full H7448 profile →מֶתֶג
metheg · meh-theg
3 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
a bit
Strong's KJV usage: bit, bridle.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 Kings 19:28Strong's last: Isaiah 37:29
Open full H4964 profile →χαλιναγωγέω
chalinagōgéō · khal-in-ag-ogue-eh'-o
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
to be a bit-leader, i.e. to curb (figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--bridle.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: James 3:2Strong's last: James 3:2
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machçôwm · makh-sohm'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
a muzzle
Strong's KJV usage: bridle.
Strong's first: Psalms 39:1Strong's last: Psalms 39:1
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H7448
Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.
H4269
<<To the chief Musician, even to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David.>> I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.
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bridle
BRI'DLE, noun
1. The instrument with which a horse is governed and restrained by a rider; consisting of a head-stall, a bit, and reins, with other appendages, according to its particular form and uses.
2. A restraint; a curb; a check.
3. A short piece of cable well served, attached to a swivel on a chain, laid in a harbor, and the upper end drawn into a ship and secured to the bits. The use is to enable a ship, when moored, to veer with the wind and tide.
Bowline bridles are short legs or pieces of rope, running through iron thimbles, by which the bowline attaches to different places on the leech or edge of a large sail
BRI'DLE, verb transitive To put on a bridle; as, to bridle a horse.
1. To restrain, guide or govern; to check, curb or control; as, to bridle the passions; 'to bridle a muse.'
Bridle the excursions of youth.
BRI'DLE, verb intransitive To hold up the head, and draw in the chin.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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