UBS Greek Dictionary Article

Form 1

Part of speech: noun, m.

Inflections: χαλινός; -οῦ

Related lemmas: χαλάω

Sense 1: bit, bridle

Semantic entry: 6.7

Semantic domains: Artifacts

Subdomains: Instruments Used in Agriculture and Husbandry

Definition: items used to control the actions of a horse, consisting of a bit (a short metal bar placed in the mouth of a horse) and bridle (ropes or leather straps attached to the bit and fitted over the horse’s head)

Notes: In languages in which a bit or bridle as a piece of harness is not known, one can employ a descriptive phrase, ‘something to guide a horse with’ or ‘something to put in the mouth of a horse to guide it.’|In OET REV 14:20 the reference to a bit and bridle is merely an indication of measurement, that is to say, the height of the bit and bridle from the ground, and one may reinterpret this measurement as ‘about a meter and a half’ or ‘about five feet.’

Further resources: realia:1.2.6

Show passage in OET: JAM 3:3

OET-RV JAM 3:3

3 With a horse, we can put a bridle into its mouth so we can make them do what we want, and so we can direct the whole animal.

OET-LV JAM 3:3

3 And, if of _the horses the bridles into the mouths we _are _putting, in _order that to _be _being _persuaded them to _us, also all the body of _them we _are _directing.

Show passage in OET: REV 14:20

OET-RV REV 14:20

20 Then the grapes were trampled in the wine-pressing pit outside the city, and blood came out of it and flowed up to the height of a horse’s bridle for 300 kilometres.

OET-LV REV 14:20

20 And was _trodden the wine-press outside the city, and came _out blood out _of the wine-press, until the bridles of _the horses from thousand stadiums six _hundred.

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UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

χαλινός

Form 1

Sense 1: bit, bridle