Strong's #7448: recen (pronounced reh'-sen)

from an unused root meaning to curb; a halter (as restraining); by implication, the jaw:--bridle.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

resen

1) something that restrains, halter, jaw

1a) halter

1a1) of restraint thrown off (figuratively)

1b) jaw (of crocodile)

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from an unused root meaning to curb

Usage:

This word is used 4 times:

 

Job 30:11: "my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before"
Job 41:13: "or who can come to him with his double bridle?"
Psalms 32:9: "whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee."
Isaiah 30:28: "the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err."