מֶתֶג
metheg · H4964 · Hebrew · 4 occurrences
Thing
- Bit and bridleAnimal husbandry12 verses
Meanings
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bit
A short bar, usually of metal, placed in a horse's mouth and attached to the bridle to steer the horse, associated with control and, indirectly, lack of wisdom
Examples2 Kings 19:28 ‘Because of your raging against Me, And because your complacency has come up to My ears, I will put My hook in your nose, And My bridle in your lips, And I will turn you back by the way by which you came.
Psalm 32:9 Do not be like the horse or like the mule, which have no understanding, Whose trappings include bit and bridle to hold them in check, Otherwise they will not come near to you.
Proverbs 26:3 A whip is for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, And a rod for the back of fools.
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- יmy 2
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- חֲמוֹרdonkey 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עֲדִיornament 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 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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Semantic domains 3 entries
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- מֶתֶג denotes a bit or bridle, a piece of equipment used to control an animal, as in Psalm 32:9's warning not to be like the horse or mule which must be held in check with bit and bridle.
- Control002003002007
- The word extends metaphorically to divine control over a hostile power, as in 2 Kings 19:28/Isaiah 37:29 where the LORD declares He will put His bridle in the raging king's lips and turn him back, using the bit-and-bridle image for forcibly restraining and directing another.
- Names of Locations003001010
- The word also underlies the place name Metheg-ammah (2 Samuel 8:1), where the same term for "bridle" is applied to a city or region David took control of from the Philistines, a domain independently attested by its shared occurrence with the place name מֶתֶג הָאַמָּה (Metheg hâ-ʼAmmâh, H4965).
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4964. metheg מֶ֫תֶג noun masculine bridle (Aramaic (ᵑ7) מִתְגָּא; Late Hebrew מֶתֶג of…
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; לַחֲמוֺר מֶתֶג Pro 26:3 a whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, etc.; ׳בְּמ וָרֶסֶן Psa 32:9 with bridle and halter (on text of verse compare Che); of ׳י's birdle for Sennach. (under figure of beast), בִּשְׂפָתֶיךָ וּמִתְגִּי 2Ki 19:28 and I will put (וְשַׂמְתִּי) my hook in thy nose and my bridle in thy lips = Isa 37:29 (see DrIs. ed. 2, 220).
2 figurative = control, authority, only in ׳מ הָאַמָּה 2Sa 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.
מְתוּשֶׁ֫לַח מְתוּשָׁאֵל, see below מַת above
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 3 entries
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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