Definition

a curb or head-stall (as curbing the spirit)

Etymology

from G5465 (χαλάω);

Word family

• χαλάω chaláō

How the KJV renders it

• bit
• bridle

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.