noun · masculine
chalinos
Strong’sG5469
a bridle
stem chalin-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
χαλινός, -οῦ, ὁ
[in LXX chiefly for מֶתֶג;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5469 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkhal-ee-nos'
a curb or head-stall (as curbing the spirit)
Fromfrom G5465;
King Jamesbit, bridle.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
(Aeolic dialect χάλιννος probably in Refs, ὁ, irregular plural χαλινά Refs 3rd c.BC+:—bit, once in Refs 8th c.BC+; of the horse, χ. οὐκ ἐπίσταται φέρειν (metaphorically of Cassandra) Refs 4th c.BC+; χ. δέχεσθαι, λαμβάνειν, Refs 5th c.BC+; λαβεῖν, ἔχειν, Refs 4th c.BC+; τὸν χ. ἐνδακεῖν champ the bit, Refs 5th c.BC+; of the rider, δοτέον τὸν χ. one must give a horse the rein, Refs 5th c.BC+; ὀπίσω σπάσαι, ξυνέχειν ἀνάγκῃ, Refs 5th c.BC+—Expld. of the bit, opposed to reins (ἡνίαι), by Refs 5th c.BC+; but distinguished from στόμιον by Refs 5th c.BC+; and may be used generally for bit and bridle, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 metaphorically, of anything which curbs, restrains, or compels, Ἀργοῦς χ., of an anchor, Refs 5th c.BC+; χ. λινόδετοι, ={χαλινωτήρια}, Refs 5th c.BC+; παρθενίας χ. λύειν, of the virgin zone, Refs 5th c.BC+; χαλινοῖς ἐν πετρίνοισιν, of Prometheus' bonds, Refs 4th c.BC+; χαλινῶν ἀναύδῳ μένει, of forcible constraint, Refs; πολλῶν χαλινῶν ἔργον οἰάκων θ᾽ ἅμα, i.e. it requires much skill and force to guide, Refs 5th c.BC+; τῷ δήμῳ χ. ἐμβαλεῖν ὕβρεως a bridle to curb their violence, Refs 1st c.AD+
II generally, strap, thong, Refs 5th c.BC+
III part of the tackle of a ship, Refs
IV corner of the horse's mouth, where the bit rests, Refs 2nd c.AD+; of the human mouth, Refs 2nd c.BC+; but, ={ἡ σύνδεσις τῶν γνάθων}, Refs 2nd c.AD+
IV.2 fangs of serpents, from their shape and position in the mouth, Refs 2nd c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | chalinos | chalinois |
| object accusative | chalinon | chalinoin1×χαλινοὺς |
| direct address vocative | chalinor | chalinoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | chalinou | chalinoiu1×χαλινῶν |
| to, for dative | chalino | chalinoi |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
chalino is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
chalinoin“bits”objectaccusative plural1×
James 3:3ei de toiu hippoiu toin chalinoin eis teim stomeim balanō eis tem …When we put bits into the mouths of horses to …
chalinoiu“bridles”of, belonging togenitive plural1×
Revelation 14:20… haimem ek tau lēnau achri toiu chalinoiu toiu hippoiu apo stadioiu chilioi hexakosioi.… it rose as high as the bridles of the horses for a distance …