χαλινός
chalinos · bridle, bit
Greek word · Strong’s number G5469 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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chalinos (χαλινός) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “bridle, bit”.
In a horse's mouth.
How to say it
cha·li·nos
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- Straps and metal in a horse's mouth to guide it.
From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- bits ×1
- bridles ×1
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Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- James 3:3
And if we put bits into the mouths of horses so that they obey us, we steer also their whole body.
- Revelation 14:20
And the winepress was trodden outside the city, and blood came out of the winepress, up to the bridles of the horses, for one thousand six hundred stadia.