Strong’s G5469 · Greek
χαλινός
chalinós · khal-ee-nos'
Origin from χαλάω (G5465);
Meaning a curb or head-stall (as curbing the spirit)
In the King James Version bit, bridle.
In 2 verses of the King James Version
- James 3:3Behold, we put bits in the horses’ mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.
- Revelation 14:20And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.