[B-Greek] CHALINAGWGEW and its use in James 1.26; 3.2

P R prittman at gmail.com
Mon Sep 27 15:23:51 EDT 2010


CHALINAGWGEW (James 1.26; 3.2)

The KJV uses “bridle” to translate this word. Looking it up in Liddell &
Scott (the big one), it mentions a few references for it in extra-biblical
literature, but they date to the 100s AD. I didn’t find this term used in a
LXX concordance, but I’m not sure if I was looking in the right place. I
went to Perseus but it recognized neither my transliterated Greek nor Greek
pasted, formatted in a Greek font.

Was this term used before the writing of the New Testament, in this
figurative sense of bridling one’s senses/passions? Does anyone know of its
use in the LXX, or in non-biblical writers, before the writing of the NT?

Paul Rittman



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