Harness

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HARNESS.—See, generally, Armour, which RV [Note: Revised Version.] substitutes in most places for AV [Note: Authorized Version.] ‘harness.’ Similarly ‘harnessed’ (Exo_13:18) becomes ‘armed,’ and the ‘well harnessed’ camp of 1Ma_4:7 becomes ‘fortified.’ For ‘the joints of the harness’ of 1Ki_22:34 RVm [Note: Revised Version margin.] substitutes ‘the lower armour and the breastplate,’ the former being probably ‘the tassets or jointed appendages of the cuirass, covering the abdomen’ (Skinner, Cent. Bible, in loc.). The only passage where ‘harness’ as a verb has its modern signification is Jer_46:4 ‘harness the horses,’ the verb in the original being that used in Gen_46:29, Exo_14:6 etc. for yoking the horses to the chariot.
A. R. S. Kennedy.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909

har?nes: A word of Celtic origin meaning ?armour? in the King James Version; it is the translation of shiryān, ?a coat of mail? (1Ki_22:34; 2Ch_18:33); of nesheḳ, ?arms,? ?weapons? (2Ch_9:24, the Revised Version (British and American) ?armor?); of 'āṣar ?to bind? (Jer_46:4), ?harness the horses,? probably here, ?yoke the horses?; compare 1Sa_6:7, ?tie the kine to the cart? (bind them), Gen_46:29; another rendering is ?put on their accoutrements?; compare 1 Macc 6:43, ?one of the beasts armed with royal harness? (θώραξ, thō̇rax), the Revised Version (British and American) ?breastplates?; compare 1 Macc 3:3, ?warlike harness?; 6:41 (ὅπλα, hópla), the Revised Version (British and American) ?arms?; 2 Macc 3:25, etc.; harnessed represents ḥămushı̄m, ?armed,? ?girded? (Exo_13:18, ?The children of Israel went up harnessed,? the Revised Version (British and American) ?armed?). Tyndale, Cranmer, Geneva have ?harnes? in Luk_11:22, Wycliff ?armer.?

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.

1Ki_20:11 (a) This figure describes a very evident truth. The one that enters into the battle is not to give the victorious shout, but rather the one who comes out of the battle as the victor. The one who begins a race is not to be commended, but rather the one who ends the race as a successful contestant.
Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types
press 1957.

Harness
occurs in several senses in the Eng. Vers. as the rendering of different Heb. words.
1. אָסָר (asar', prop. to bind, as it is generally rendered) is sometimes applied to the act of fastening animals to a cart or vehicle, e.g. yoking kine (1Sa_6:7; 1Sa_6:10, “tie”) or horses (Jer_46:4, “harness”), gearing a chariot (Gen_46:29; Exo_14:6; 2Ki_9:21, “make ready”), or absolutely (1Ki_18:44; 2Ki_9:21, ‘prepare”). From the monuments we see that the harness of the Egyptian war-chariots was composed of leather, and the trappings were richly decorated, being stained with a great variety of colors, and studded with gold and silver. SEE CHARIOT.
2. In the old English sense for armor ( נֵשֶׁקor נֶשֶׁקne'shek, warlike accoutrements, elsewhere “armor,”“weapons,”etc.), 2Ch_9:24. SEE ARMOR.
3. In a like sense for שַׁרְיָן(shiryan', 1Ki_22:34; 2Ch_18:33), a coat of mail (“breastplate,” Isa_59:17). SEE ARMOR.
4. “Harnessed”(חֲמֻשַׁים, chamushim', from חָמִשׁin the sense of being fierce for battle) is the expression used to represent the equipped condition of the Israelites as they passed out of Egypt (Exo_13:18, “armed,” Jos_1:14; Jos_4:1-2 Jdg_7:11), and seems to denote their orderly and intrepid disposal as if to meet a foe (the ancient versions interpret generally full-armed). (See Gesenius, Lex. s.v.)

CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.

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