χλινος, χλινου, ὁ (χαλάω), a bridle: Jas_3:3; Rev_14:20. (From Aeschylus and Pindar down.)

χαλινός chalinos 2x a bridle, bit, Jas_3:3 ; Rev_14:20

χαλινός , -οῦ , ὁ , [in LXX chiefly for H4964 ;] a bridle: Jas_3:3 , Rev_14:20 .†

χαλινός [page 682] a bridle (Jas. 3:3, Rev. 14:20) : PSI V. 543 .50 (iii/B.C.) χαλινοῦ τοῦ ἀργυροῦ κατασκευή . For the common phrase ἀχάλινον στόμα , see Aristoph. Ran. 838. The verb is very common in the opening address of letters, as in Act. 15:23; Act. 23:26, cf. Jas. 1:1, e.g. P Eleph 10 .1 (B.C. 223 222) Εὐφρόνιος Μίλωνι χαίρειν (for imper. inf. see Proleg. p. 179 f.), P Oxy II. 292 .2 ( c. A.D. 25) Θέων Τυράννωι τῶι τιμιωτάτωι πλεῖστα χαίρειν , P Ryl II. 157 .3 (A.D. 135) ἀλλήλαις χα [ί ]ρειν , mutual greetings, and the official petition to a strategus P Oxy VIII. 1119 .22 (A.D. 254) Ἀντώνιος Ἀλέξανδρος στρατηγῷ Ὀξυρυγχείτου χαίρειν . Wilcken cites UPZ i. 62 .1 (before the end of B.C. 161 (or 160)) Διονύσι [ος Πτολε ]μαίωι χαίρειν καὶ ἐρρῶσθαι , as the oldest ex. of that combination. Cf. P Oxy IV. 746 .2 (A.D. 16) Θέων Ἡρακλείδηι τῶι ἀδελφῶι πλεῖστα χαίρειν καὶ ὑγιαίνειν . In ib. 822 ( c. A.D. 1) εὖ πράσσειν is substituted for χαίρειν . The imper. takes the place of the inf. in such greetings as P Oxy XIV. 1664 .1 (iii/A.D.) Χαῖρε , κύριέ μου Ἀπίων . Greeting, my lord Apion, and similarly id. 1667 .1 (iii/A.D.), ib. IX. 1185 .13 ( c. A.D. 200), ib. XII. 1492 .13 (Christian iii/iv A.D.) Χα [ῖ ]ρε , ἱερ [ὲ υἱὲ ] Δημητρι [ανέ . Occasionally, during the Roman period, we have χαίροις for χαῖρε , as P Oxy III. 526 .1 (ii/A.D.) Χαίροις Καλόκαιρε , Κύριλλός σε προσαγορεύω , Greeting, Calocaerus : I, Cyrillus, address you, id. I. 112 .1 (iii/iv A.D.), and P Iand I. 12 .1 (iii/iv A.D.) (see the editor s note). For epistolary phrases with χαίρω , see further G. A. Gerhard Untersuchungen zur Geschichte des Griech. Briefes (Heidelberg, 1903), Ziemann Epist. (see Abbreviations I. General), Exler Epistolography (see ib. ) a and the note On some current epistolary phrases by J. A. Robinson Ephesians , p. 275 ff. A good ex. of χαιρετίζω as in LXX Tob. 7:1, is supplied by P Oxy X. 1242 .35 (early iii/A.D.), cited s.v. χαλεπός . For ἐπιχαίρω of malignant exulting, see the prayer for vengeance Preisigke 1323 (ii/A.D.) ἤ τις αὐτῇ ( sc. the suppliant) φάρμακα ἐποίησε ἠ καὶ ἐπέχαρέ τις αὐτῆς τῷ θανάτῳ ἠ ἐπιχαρεῖ , μετέλθετε αὐτούς .

χαλινός χα^λι_νός, οῦ, ὁ, "a bridle, bit", Il. ; χαλινὸν ἐμβαλεῖν γνάθοις Eur. :—of the horse, χαλινὸν οὐκ ἐπίσταται φέρειν Aesch. ; χ. δέχεσθαι Xen. ; χ. ἐνδακεῖν "to champ" the bit, Plat. :—of the rider, τὸν χ. διδόναι "to give" a horse "the rein", Xen. ; ὀπίσω σπᾶν Plat. metaph. of "anything which curbs or restrains", of an anchor, Pind. ; χαλινοῖς ἐν πετρίνοισι, of Prometheus bound to the rock, Aesch. generally, "a strap or thong", Eur. Hence

χαλινός, -οῦ, ὁ [in LXX chiefly for מֶתֶג ;] a bridle: Jas.3:3, Rev.14:20.† (AS)