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# מֶתֶג

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4964

**bridle** — used 4 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

bridle [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4964/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מֶ֫תֶג: n.m. bridle [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4964/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. bridle (Aramaic (𝔗) מִתְגָּא; NH מֶתֶג of secondary accentֽ; מִתֵּג Pi. denom. put on a bridle);— lit. bridle, for animals; מֶתֶג לַחֲמוֹר Pr 26:3 a whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, etc.; בְּמ׳ וָרֶסֶן ψ 32:9 with bridle and halter (on text of verse cf. Che); of י׳’s bridle for Sennach. (under fig. of beast), וּמִתְגִּי בִּשְׂפָתֶיךָ 2 K 19:28 and I will put (וְשַׂמְתִּי) my hook in thy nose and my bridle in thy lips = Is 37:29 (v. Dr Is. ed. 2, 220). fig. = control, authority, only in מ׳ הָאַמָּה 2 S 8:1 authority of the mother city, according to MV Buhl, cf. especially We Dr; Bu om. as corrupt (v. i. אַמָּה, p. 52 supr.); vid., further HPS

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: bridle (3); a bridle (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 26:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.26.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.26.3/#tree)

שׁ֣וֹט לַ֭סּוּס מֶ֣תֶג לַחֲמ֑וֹר וְ֝שֵׁ֗בֶט לְגֵ֣ו כְּסִילִֽים׃

*Word for word:* a.whip \[is\].for (the) horse a.bridle \[is\].for a donkey and a.rod \[is\].for.\[the\] back of.fools

*JPS 1917:* A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the back of fools.

[Psalms 32:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.32.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.32.9/#tree)

אַל־תִּֽהְי֤וּ ׀ כְּס֥וּס כְּפֶרֶד֮ אֵ֤ין הָ֫בִ֥ין בְּמֶֽתֶג־וָרֶ֣סֶן עֶדְי֣וֹ לִבְל֑וֹם בַּ֝֗ל קְרֹ֣ב אֵלֶֽיךָ׃

*Word for word:* do.not be like a.horse like a.mule \[which\].there.\[is\].not understanding with bridle and halter trapping\[s\] its to restrain not to.draw.near to you

*JPS 1917:* Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding; whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, that they come not near unto thee.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4964.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4964/): 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).