Judges 16:21
But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.
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Fetters
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Luke 8:29
(For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For oftentimes it had caught him: and he was kept bound with chains and in fetters; and he brake the bands, and was driven of the devil into the wilderness.)
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2 occurrences in 2 verses.
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נְחֹשֶׁת
nᵉchôsheth · nekh-o'-sheth
4 times translated as this KJV form141 total Strong's occurrences
copper, hence, something made of that metal, i.e. coin, a fetter; figuratively, base (as compared with gold or silver)
Strong's KJV usage: brasen, brass, chain, copper, fetter (of brass), filthiness, steel.
Strong's first: 2 Samuel 3:34Strong's last: 2 Chronicles 36:6
Open full H5178 profile →πέδη
pédē · ped'-ay
3 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
a shackle for the feet
Strong's KJV usage: :--fetter.
Strong's first: Mark 5:4Strong's last: Luke 8:29
Open full G3976 profile →כֶּבֶל
kebel · keh'-bel
2 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
a fetter
Strong's KJV usage: fetter.
Strong's first: Psalms 105:18Strong's last: Psalms 149:8
Open full H3525 profile →זִיקָה
zîyqâh · zee-kaw'
1 times translated as this KJV form7 total Strong's occurrences
properly, what leaps forth, i.e. flash of fire, or a burning arrow; also (from the original sense of the root) a bond
Strong's KJV usage: chain, fetter, firebrand, spark.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Job 36:8Strong's last: Job 36:8
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G3976
Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him.
G3976
Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him.
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fetter
FET'TER, noun
1. A chain for the feet; a chain by which an animal is confined by the foot, either made fast or fixed, as a prisoner, or impeded in motion and hindered from leaping, as a horse whose fore and hind feet are confined by a chain.
The Philistines bound Samson with fetters of brass.
Judges 16:21.
2. Any thing that confines or restrains from motion.
Passions too fierce to be in fetters bound.
FET'TER, verb transitive
1. To put on fetters; to shackle or confine the feet with a chain.
2. To bind; to enchain; to confine; to restrain motion; to impose restraints on.
Fetter strong madness in a silken thread.
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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