Bridle
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Bridle in the Bible Dictionary
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General scriptures concerning
Ps 32:9; Prov 26:3; Rev 14:20
9 Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.
Psalms 32:93 A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back.
Proverbs 26:320 And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.
Revelation 14:20 -
Figurative
2 Kgs 19:28; Ps 39:1; Jas 1:26
28 Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
2 Kings 19:281 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 39:126 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
James 1:26 - See Bit
From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), by Orville J. Nave.