Quick Definition
a shackle
Strong's Definition
a shackle for the feet
Derivation: ultimately from G4228 (πούς);
KJV Usage: fetter
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
πέδη, πεδης, ἡ (from πέζα the foot, instep), a fetter, shackle for the feet: Mar_5:4; Luk_8:29. (From Homer down; the Sept..)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
πέδη pedē 3x
a fetter, shackle, Mar_5:4 ; Luk_8:29
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
πέδη , -ης , ἡ
( < πέζα , the instep ),
[in LXX for H5178 , etc.;]
a fetter: Mar_5:4 , Luk_8:29 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
πέδη [page 500]
a fetter ( Mar_5:4 , Luk_8:29 ) : PSI IV. 406 .24 (iii/B.C.) ἀπάγεται εἰς φυλακὴν ἡμέρας ζ̄ ἐμ πέδαις ὤν , P Lond 46 .488 (iv/A.D.) (= I. p. 81 ) πέδας λύει said of a charm. For the verb πεδάω see Artem. p. 261 .8 .
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
πέδη πέδη, ἡ, [Etym: πέζα] "a fetter", Lat. pedica, compes, mostly in pl. "fetters, shackles", Il. , etc.; πεδέων (ionic) ζεῦγος a pair "of fetters", Hdt. ; metaph., πέδαι ἀχάλκευτοι "fetters" not forged by smiths, of the robe in which Agamemnon was entangled, Aesch. "a mode of breaking in a horse", Xen.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
πέδη, -ης, ἡ
(πέζα, the instep), [in LXX for נְחֹשֶׁת, etc. ;]
a fetter: Mrk.5:4, Luk.8:29.†
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