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Fette [Imperfect tense] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Fette [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Fetter [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A chain for the feet; a chain by which an animal is confined by the foot, either made fast or fixed, as a prisoner, or impeded in motion and hindered from leaping, as a horse whose fore and hind feet are confined by a chain.

2. The Philistines bound Samson with fetters of brass.

3. Judges 16:21 .

4. Any thing that confines or restrains from motion.

5. Passions too fierce to be in fetters bound.

Fetter [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To put on fetters; to shackle or confine the feet with a chain.

2. To bind; to enchain; to confine; to restrain motion; to impose restraints on.

3. Fetter strong madness in a silken thread.

Fetter [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A chain or shackle for the feet; a chain by which an animal is confined by the foot, either made fast or disabled from free and rapid motion; a bond; a shackle.

2. Anything that confines or restrains; a restraint.

Fetter [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To put fetters upon; to shackle or confine the feet of with a chain; to bind.

2. To restrain from motion; to impose restraints on; to confine; to enchain; as, fettered by obligations.

Fettered [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Bound or confined by fetters; enchained.

Fettered [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Seeming as if fettered, as the feet of certain animals which bend backward, and appear unfit for walking.

Fetterer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who fetters.

Fettering [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Binding or fastening by the feet with a chain; confining; restraining motion.

Fetterless [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Free from fetters or restraint.

Fetterless [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Free from fetters.

Fetters [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Fetter

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15 KJV and 1 BSB verses contain “Fette”

Judges 16:21

But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.

Then the Philistines seized him, gouged out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, where he was bound with bronze shackles and forced to grind grain in the prison.

2 Samuel 3:34

Thy hands were not bound, nor thy feet put into fetters: as a man falleth before wicked men, so fellest thou. And all the people wept again over him.

Your hands were not bound, your feet were not fettered. As a man falls before the wicked, so also you fell.” And all the people wept over him even more.

2 Kings 25:7

And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried him to Babylon.

And they slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes. Then they put out his eyes, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon.

2 Chronicles 33:11

Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.

So the LORD brought against them the military commanders of the king of Assyria, who captured Manasseh, put a hook in his nose, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon.

2 Chronicles 36:6

Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.

Then Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jehoiakim and bound him with bronze shackles to take him to Babylon.

Job 36:8

And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction;

And if men are bound with chains, caught in cords of affliction,

Psalms 105:18

Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron:

They bruised his feet with shackles and placed his neck in irons,

Psalms 149:8

To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;

to bind their kings with chains and their nobles with shackles of iron,

Mark 5:4

Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him.

Though he was often bound with chains and shackles, he had broken the chains and shattered the shackles. Now there was no one with the strength to subdue him.

Luke 8:29

(For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For oftentimes it had caught him: and he was kept bound with chains and in fetters; and he brake the bands, and was driven of the devil into the wilderness.)

For Jesus had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. Many times it had seized him, and though he was bound with chains and shackles, he had broken the chains and been driven by the demon into solitary places.

Wisdom of Solomon 17:2

For when unrighteous men thought to oppress the holy nation; they being shut up in their houses, the prisoners of darkness, and fettered with the bonds of a long night, lay there exiled from the eternal providence.

Sirach 6:24

And put thy feet into her fetters, and thy neck into her chain.

Sirach 6:29

Then shall her fetters be a strong defence for thee, and her chains a robe of glory.

Sirach 21:19

Doctrine unto fools is as fetters on the feet, and like manacles on the right hand.

Sirach 33:28

Set him to work, as is fit for him: if he be not obedient, put on more heavy fetters.