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# כֶּבֶל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3525

**fetter** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

fetter [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3525/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כֶּ֫בֶל: fetter(s), late [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3525/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] fetter(s), late;—sg. coll. עִנּוּ בַכּ׳ רגליו ψ 105:18 they humbled his feet with fetters(‖ בַּרְזֶל); pl. cstr. אסר בְּכַבְלֵי בַרְזֶל 149:8 (‖ זִקִּים)

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: shackle\[s\] (1); shackles (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 105:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.105.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.105.18/#tree)

עִנּ֣וּ בַכֶּ֣בֶל רַגְל֑וֹ בַּ֝רְזֶ֗ל בָּ֣אָה נַפְשֽׁוֹ׃

*Word for word:* people.afflicted with (the) shackle\[s\] foot his iron it.came neck his

*JPS 1917:* His feet they hurt with fetters, his person was laid in iron;

[Psalms 149:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.149.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.149.8/#tree)

לֶאְסֹ֣ר מַלְכֵיהֶ֣ם בְּזִקִּ֑ים וְ֝נִכְבְּדֵיהֶ֗ם בְּכַבְלֵ֥י בַרְזֶֽל׃

*Word for word:* to bind kings their with fetters and their.honored \[people\] with shackles of.iron

*JPS 1917:* To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3525.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3525/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).