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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H3525
Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron:
H3525
To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;
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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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