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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

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har´nes : A word of Celtic origin meaning "armour" in the King James Version; it is the translation of shiryān , "a coat of mail" ( 1 Kings 22:34; 2 Chronicles 18:33 ); of nesheḳ , "arms," "weapons" (2 Chronicles 9:24 , the Revised Version (British and American) "armor"); of 'āṣar "to bind" (Jeremiah 46:4 ), "harness the horses," probably here, "yoke the horses"; compare 1 Samuel 6:7 , "tie the kine to the cart" (bind them), Genesis 46:29; another rendering is "put on their accoutrements"; compare 1 Macc 6:43, "one of the beasts armed with royal harness" (θώραξ , thō̇rax ), the Revised Version (British and American) "breastplates"; compare 1 Macc 3:3, "warlike harness"; 6:41 (ὅπλα , hópla ), the Revised Version (British and American) "arms"; 2 Macc 3:25, etc.; harnessed represents ḥămushı̄m , "armed," "girded" (Exodus 13:18 , "The children of Israel went up harnessed," the Revised Version (British and American) "armed"). Tyndale, Cranmer, Geneva have "harnes" in Luke 11:22 , Wycliff "armer."

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Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. Entry for 'Harness'. International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​isb/​h/harness.html. 1915.
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