Lexicon metheg: a bridle Original Word: מֶ֫תֶגPart of Speech: Noun Masculine Transliteration: metheg Phonetic Spelling: (meh-theg) Short Definition: bridle NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originof uncertain derivation Definitiona bridle NASB Translationbit (1), bridle (3), control (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs מֶ֫תֶג noun masculine bridle (Aramaic ( ᵑ7) מִתְגָּא; Late Hebrew מֶתֶג of secondary accent ָֽ; מִתֵּג Pi`el denominative put on a bridle); — 1 literally bridle, for animals; מֶתֶג לַחֲמוֺר Proverbs 26:3 a whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, etc.; וָרֶסֶן ׳בְּמ Psalm 32:9 with bridle and halter (on text of verse compare Che); of ׳י's birdle for Sennach. (under figure of beast), וּמִתְגִּי בִּשְׂפָתֶיךָ 2 Kings 19:28 and I will put (וְשַׂמְתִּי) my hook in thy nose and my bridle in thy lips = Isaiah 37:29 (see DrIs. ed. 2, 220). 2 figurative = control, authority, only in הָאַמָּה ׳מ 2 Samuel 8:1authority of the mother city, according to MV Buhl, of especially We Dr; Bu omit as corrupt (see I. אַמָּה, above); see, further, HPS. מְתוּשָׁאֵל, מְתוּשֶׁ֫לַח see below מַת above
Strong's bit, bridle From an unused root meaning to curb; a bit -- bit, bridle. |
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