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Muzzle

מַחְסוֹםStrong’s H4269

machsom (mach-som)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Machsom is the Hebrew word usually translated “muzzle”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.”
Psalms 39:1 KJV
Meaning
  1. Muzzle
How it's translated
  • a muzzle 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Psalms 1

1 book in all.

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    Hebrew dictionary

    מַחְסוֹם machsom · muzzle

    muzzle

    From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “muzzle” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    MUZ'ZLE, noun

    1. The mouth of a thing; the extreme or end for entrance or discharge; applied chiefly to the end of a tube, as the open end of a common fusee or pistol, or of a bellows.
    2. A fastening for the mouth which hinders from biting.
    All definitions and other forms of “muzzle”

      MUZ'ZLE, verb transitive

      To bind the mouth; to fasten the mouth to prevent biting or eating.

      1. “Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn” Deuteronomy 25:4
      2. To fondle with the mouth close. [Low.]
      3. To restrain from hurt.

      MUZ'ZLE, verb intransitive

      To bring the mouth near.

        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.