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Strong's #4964 - מֶתֶג
- Brown-Driver-Briggs
- Strong
- bridle
- bridle (for animals)
- control, authority (figuratively)
- Book
- Word
did not use
this Strong's Number
1 literally bridle, for animals; מֶתֶגלַחֲמוֺר Proverbs 26:3 a whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, etc.; וָרֶסֶן׳בְּמ Psalm 32:9 with bridle and halter (on text of verse compare Che); of ׳י's birdle for Sennach. (under figure of beast), וּמִתְגִּי בִּשְׂפָתֶיךָ 2 Kings 19:28 and I will put (וְשַׂמְתִּי) my hook in thy nose and my bridle in thy lips = Isaiah 37:29 (see Dr Is. ed. 2,220).
2 figurative = control, authority, only in הָאַמָּה׳מ 2 Samuel 8:1 authority of the mother city, according to MV Buhl, of especially We Dr; Bu omit as corrupt (see I. אַמָּה, above); see, further, HPS.
מְתוּשָׁאֵל, מְתוּשֶׁ֫לַח see below מַת above
מֶתֶג with suff. מִתְגִּי a bridle, Psalms 32:9; Proverbs 26:3. As to the passage 2 Samuel 8:1, see אַמָּה No. 3.
