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# רֶסֶן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7448

**halter** — 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

halter [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7448/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רֶ֫סֶן: n.m. halter Jaw [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7448/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Is 30:28: 1. halter; 2. Jaw (?);— abs. ר׳ ψ 32:9 restraining mouth of horse or ass (+ מֶתֶג); fig. of שֵׁם י׳, ר׳ עַל־לְחָיֵי עַמִּים Is 30:28; ר׳ מִפָּנַי שִׁלֵּ֑חוּ Jb 30:11, i.e. threw off restraint. sf. כֶּפֶל רִסְנוֹ 41:5 the double of his jaw, his double jaws (of croc.), si vera l.; connexion of meanings strange, ‖ פְּנֵי לְבוּשׁוֹ, whence GHB Wright Du conj. סִרְיּנוֹ.

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 (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: halter (2); a halter (1); its halter (1).

## In the verses

[Job 41:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.41.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.41.5/#tree)

מִֽי־גִ֭לָּה פְּנֵ֣י לְבוּשׁ֑וֹ בְּכֶ֥פֶל רִ֝סְנ֗וֹ מִ֣י יָבֽוֹא׃

*Word for word:* who? has.he.uncovered the.surface its.clothing his in the.doubling its.halter his who? will.he.come

*JPS 1917:* Who can uncover the face of his garment? Who shall come within his double bridle?

[Job 30:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.30.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.30.11/#tree)

כִּֽי־יִתְרִ֣י פִ֭תַּח וַיְעַנֵּ֑נִי וְ֝רֶ֗סֶן מִפָּנַ֥י שִׁלֵּֽחוּ׃

*Word for word:* (dm) bowstring my he.has.loosened and he has.afflicted.me and.\[the\] halter from before me they.have.sent.away

*JPS 1917:* For He hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, and they have cast off the bridle before me.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7448.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7448/): 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).