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Strong's #7448 - רֶסֶן
- Brown-Driver-Briggs
- Strong
- something that restrains, halter, jaw
- halter
- of restraint thrown off (fig)
- jaw (of crocodile)
- halter
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did not use
this Strong's Number
1 halter;
2 jaw (?); —
1 absolute ׳ר Psalm 32:9 restraining mouth of horse or ass (+מֶתֶג); figurative of ׳שֵׁם י, עַללְֿחָיֵי עַמִּים׳ר Isaiah 30:28; מִמָּנַי שִׁלֵּ֑חוּ׳ר Job 30:11, i.e. threw off restraint.
2 suffix כֶּפֶל רִסְנוֺ Job 41:5 the double of his jaw, his double jaws (of croc.), si vera 1.; connection of meanings strange, "" מְּנֵי לְבוּשׁוֺ, whence GHBW right Du conjecture סִיֹנוֺ.
רֶסֶן m.
(1) a curb or halter, which goes over a horse’s nose, Isaiah 30:28 gener. a bridle, Psalms 32:9. Job 30:11, רֶסֶן מִפָּנַי שִׁלֵּחוּ “they cast off the bridle before me,” i.e. they use unbridled license; compare the Arabic phrase طلق زمامه to loose his halter, of an unbridled person. Hence
(2) the inner part of the mouth, where the bit (das Gebiß) is put, like the Greek χαλινοί, teeth, Job 41:5, כֶּפֶל רִסְנוֹ used of the double row of teeth (of the crocodile).
(3) [Resen], pr. name of a very ancient city in Assyria, Genesis 10:12.
