Fetter
כֶּ֫בֶלStrong’s H3525kevel (ke-vel)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Kevel is the Hebrew word usually translated “shackle” and “shackles of”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron:”
Meaning
- Bond(s), fetter(s)
How it's translated
- with shackle 1
- with shackles of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 2
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
כֶּ֫בֶל kevel · fetter
bond(s), fetter(s)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “fetter” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FET'TER, noun
- A chain for the feet; a chain by which an animal is confined by the foot, either made fast or fixed, as a prisoner, or impeded in motion and hindered from leaping, as a horse whose fore and hind feet are confined by a chain.“The Philistines bound Samson with fetters of brass” Judges 16:21
- Any thing that confines or restrains from motion.
All definitions and other forms of “fetter”
FET'TER, verb transitive
- To put on fetters; to shackle or confine the feet with a chain.
- To bind; to enchain; to confine; to restrain motion; to impose restraints on.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.