KJV dictionary & concordance
Sense 1: A series of connected links, worn as an ornament or used to bind or restrain. Sense 2: Figuratively, a bond, confinement, affliction, or surrounding force.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Genesis 41:42
Complete exact-word concordance
And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph’s hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck;
And Pharaoh tooke off his ring from his hand, & put it vpon Iosephs hand, and arayed him in vestures of fine linnen, and put a gold chaine about his necke.
1611 marginal noteOr, silke.
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Historical English dictionary sources
A series of connected links; an ornament; that which binds, restrains, confines, or fetters; a bond or affliction.
