(זֵק, zek, bond or chain in general, only in the plur. [Job 36:8], else-where chains." [Psa 149:8]; [Isa 45:14]; [Nah 3:10]; כֶּבֶל, ke’bel, sing. Perhaps the link joining the fetter, [Psa 105:18]; plur. and of iron, 149:8; נְחשֶׁת-necho’sheth, brazen, in the dual, the appropriate term, [Lam 3:7]; [Jdg 16:21]; [2Sa 3:34]; [2Ki 25:7]; [Jer 39:7]; [Jer 52:11]; πέδη, implying that they were for the feet, in the plur., [Mar 5:4]; [Luk 8:29]; [Sir 6:24]; [Sir 6:29]; [Sir 21:19]), shackles or chains for binding prisoners, whether by the wrists or ankles. The Philistines bound Samson with fetters of copper ([Jdg 16:21]). Manasseh and Zedekiab, king of Judah were bound with fetters by the Chaldaens and carried to Babylon ([2Ch 33:11]; [2Ki 25:7]). Manacles for the feet and hands are represented on the Assyrian monuments (Layard, Nineveh, ii, 376; Kitto, Daily Bible Illustrations, ii, 437). SEE CHAIN. ’One mode of securing prisoners among the Egyptians, as depicted on the monuments,-was to enclose their hands in an elongated fetter of wood, made of two opposite segments, nailed together at each end, such as are used for a similar purpose in Egypt at the present day (Wilkinson, Ancient Egyptians, i, 410, abridgm.).
