What Is Latchet in the Bible?
Object
The leather strap that tied a sandal. John says he is not worthy even to stoop down and untie it: that is how great the one coming after him is.
Today
It is the strap of a sandal.
Where it appears in the Bible
Mark 1:7
What the Bible says
Mark 1:7
And he preached, saying: There cometh after me one mightier than I, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and loose.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
Source: Mark 1:7 (NABRE: “stoop and loosen the thongs of his sandals”)