International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: Harness

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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: Harness


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har´nes: A word of Celtic origin meaning “armour” in the King James Version; it is the translation of shiryān, “a coat of mail” (; ); of nesheḳ, “arms,” “weapons” (, the Revised Version (British and American) “armor”); of 'āṣar “to bind” (), “harness the horses,” probably here, “yoke the horses”; compare , “tie the kine to the cart” (bind them), ; another rendering is “put on their accoutrements”; compare 1 Macc 6:43, “one of the beasts armed with royal harness” (θώραξ, thō̇rax), the Revised Version (British and American) “breastplates”; compare 1 Macc 3:3, “warlike harness”; 6:41 (ὅπλα, hópla), the Revised Version (British and American) “arms”; 2 Macc 3:25, etc.; harnessed represents ḥămushı̄m, “armed,” “girded” (, “The children of Israel went up harnessed,” the Revised Version (British and American) “armed”). Tyndale, Cranmer, Geneva have “harnes” in , Wycliff “armer.”