Brown-Driver-Briggs' Hebrew DefinitionsBDB8139 רתק 1. to bind a. (Niphal) to be snapped, be broken b. (Pual) to be bound Origin: a primitive root TWOT: 2227 Parts of Speech: Verb
רתקה re thûqâh reth-oo-kaw' Feminine passive participle of H7576; something fastened, that is, a chainKJV Usage: chain.