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# fetter

noun (fetters); verb (fetter, fetters, fettered, fettering)

«fetter» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Fetters are chains put round a prisoner's hands or feet. (old use) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fetter/#m1)
2. To fetter someone is to chain them up so they cannot move freely. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fetter/#m2)

### In the lessons

in fairy tales and old stories fetters are chains that hold a prisoner or a monster; the word is also used for anything that holds back freedom

### Examples

- No fetters hold me now, said the tree. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fetter/#x1)
- The conquered kings were chained up with golden fetters. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fetter/#x2)
- The guards fettered the prisoner's hands. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fetter/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## In Jewish tradition

Fetters stand for captivity or affliction, as with Joseph in prison. The psalms also picture God freeing prisoners from them.

**Interpretation.** Tradition reads the fetters as slavery or suffering sent to teach a person, and God as the one who loosens the bound.

### Examples

- His feet they hurt with fetters, his person was laid in iron; (Writings PSA.105.18, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/fetter/#x1)
- To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; (Writings PSA.149.8, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/fetter/#x2)
- And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction; (Writings JOB.36.8, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/fetter/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «fetter» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fetter/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«fetter» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/fetter.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «fetter» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/fetter/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«fetter» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/fetter.html) on Mova free.