מַחְסוֹם
machçôwm · H4269 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Thing
- MuzzleAgriculture and farming7 verses
Meanings
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muzzle
A contraption made of rope or leather strips formed into a loose mesh, placed over or around the mouth of an animal to prevent it from biting or eating; used figuratively to denote a device that is to keep human beings from talking
ExamplesPsalm 39:1 I said, “I will keep watch over my ways So that I do not sin with my tongue; I will keep watch over my mouth as with a muzzle While the wicked are in my presence.”
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- שָׁמַרto keep, to guard, to observe 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 2 words
- רֶסֶן reçen · H7448 · bridle, self-control, restraint
- רֶסֶן is another Hebrew term for bridle or halter, referring to the same type of animal control equipment; while מַחְסוֹם emphasizes the muzzling/restraining function (from the root חסם), רֶסֶן is the more common general term for bridle in Biblical Hebrew.
- מֶתֶג metheg · H4964 · bit, control, supremacy
- מֶתֶג refers to a bridle or bit, the equipment used to control a horse; it overlaps semantically with מַחְסוֹם as equipment for restraining an animal's mouth, though מֶתֶג may emphasize the steering function slightly more.
In the other Testament 1 word
- χαλινός chalinós · G5469 · bit, bridle
- χαλινός is the standard Greek term for a bridle or bit used to control horses, the direct translation equivalent of Hebrew מַחְסוֹם in the sense of equipment for controlling an animal's mouth.
Semantic domains 1 entry
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- מַחְסוֹם, occurring once in Psalm 39:1, names a muzzle or bridle placed over the mouth to restrain speech, a restraining implement.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4269. machsom מַחְסוֺם noun masculine muzzle, מ ׳אֶשְׁמְרָהלְֿפִי Psa 39:2 let me keep a…
מַחְסוֺם noun masculine muzzle, מ ׳אֶשְׁמְרָהלְֿפִי Psa 39:2 let me keep a muzzle for my mouth, to avoid (hasty and) erring speech.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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