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HARNESS.—See, generally, Armour, which RV [Note: Revised Version.] substitutes in most places for AV [Note: Authorized Version.] ‘harness.’ Similarly ‘harnessed’ (Exo_13:18) becomes ‘armed,’ and the ‘well harnessed’ camp of 1Ma_4:7 becomes ‘fortified.’ For ‘the joints of the harness’ of 1Ki_22:34 RVm [Note: Revised Version margin.] substitutes ‘the lower armour and the breastplate,’ the former being probably ‘the tassets or jointed appendages of the cuirass, covering the abdomen’ (Skinner, Cent. Bible, in loc.). The only passage where ‘harness’ as a verb has its modern signification is Jer_46:4 ‘harness the horses,’ the verb in the original being that used in Gen_46:29, Exo_14:6 etc. for yoking the horses to the chariot.
A. R. S. Kennedy.