Strong G1199δεσμός
chain
- Transliteration
- desmon desmos
- Pronunciation
- des-mon' des-mos'
- Morphology
- Greek Noun (Masculine)
Definition
Neuter and masculine respectively from G1210; a band that is ligament (of the body) or shackle (of a prisoner); figuratively an impediment or disability: - band bond chain string.
Detailed definition
δεσμός, -οῦ, ὁ
(δέω), [in LXX chiefly for אסר;]
a band, bond: metaphorically, Luk.13:16; ὁ δεσμὸς τ. γλώσσης, Mrk.7:35 (for this expression in π., see Deiss., LAE, 306 ff.; of actual bonds, see Ruth., Gr., 9). Pl., δεσμοί, Php.1:13; δεσμά (as also in cl.), Luk.8:29, Act.16:26 20:23; genitive, dative, Act.23:29 26:29, 31, Php.1:7, 14, 17, Col.4:18, 2Ti.2:9, Phm 10, Heb.11:36, Ju 6; ἐν τοῖς δ. τοῦ εὐαγγελίου Phm 13.†
(AS)
(δέω), [in LXX chiefly for אסר;]
a band, bond: metaphorically, Luk.13:16; ὁ δεσμὸς τ. γλώσσης, Mrk.7:35 (for this expression in π., see Deiss., LAE, 306 ff.; of actual bonds, see Ruth., Gr., 9). Pl., δεσμοί, Php.1:13; δεσμά (as also in cl.), Luk.8:29, Act.16:26 20:23; genitive, dative, Act.23:29 26:29, 31, Php.1:7, 14, 17, Col.4:18, 2Ti.2:9, Phm 10, Heb.11:36, Ju 6; ἐν τοῖς δ. τοῦ εὐαγγελίου Phm 13.†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G1199 appears in 20 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- bond15
- band3
- in2
- by1
- chain1
- string1
- to1
First verses
- Mark 7:35And straightway his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain.
- 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.)
- Luke 13:16And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?
- Acts 16:26And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one’s bands were loosed.
- Acts 20:23Save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me.
- Acts 22:30On the morrow, because he would have known the certainty wherefore he was accused of the Jews, he loosed him from his bands, and commanded the chief priests and all their council to appear, and brought Paul down, and set him before them.
- Acts 23:29Whom I perceived to be accused of questions of their law, but to have nothing laid to his charge worthy of death or of bonds.
- Acts 26:29And Paul said, I would to God, that not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, were both almost, and altogether such as I am, except these bonds.
- Acts 26:31And when they were gone aside, they talked between themselves, saying, This man doeth nothing worthy of death or of bonds.
- Philippians 1:7Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace.
- Philippians 1:13So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace, and in all other places;
- Philippians 1:14And many of the brethren in the Lord, waxing confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.
- Philippians 1:16The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds:
- Colossians 4:18The salutation by the hand of me Paul. Remember my bonds. Grace be with you. Amen. Written from Rome to the Colossians by Tychicus and Onesimus.
- 2 Timothy 2:9Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound.
- Philemon 1:10I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds:
- Philemon 1:13Whom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospel:
- Hebrews 10:34For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.
- Hebrews 11:36And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:
- Jude 1:6And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
δεσμός, ὁ,
plural δεσμά [Refs 6th c.BC+ (“hymnus ad Mercurium” 157, +others, 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 459, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.91)], and so mostly in Trag., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 513, etc., and 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthyphro” 9a; but δεσμοί 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 525, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 518, 634, usually in 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus, as “Lg.” 793b, +others)]: both forms in Attic dialect Inscrr., δεσμοί [Refs (“IG” 2.678 B 48, δεσμά [prev. work] 791.31,)] the latter preferred by [Refs 6th c.AD+ (6th c.AD: Thomas Epigrammaticus Mag. p.79R. (_sing._ δεσμόν “SIG” 246 ii 36 (Delph.))], Attic dialect accusative to [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus): (δέω A))]:—band, bond, anything for tying and fastening, as halter, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.507)]; mooring-cable, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.100, etc.)]; door-latch, [Refs (21.241)]; yoke-strap, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 3.5.10)]: metaphorically, any bond of union or connexion, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 31c, etc.)]; of the vowels, [Refs ([prev. author] “Sph.” 253a)]; δεσμοὶ πολιτείας, of the laws, [Refs ([prev. author] “Lg.” 793b)]; εἰς τὰ δεσμοῦ for binding material, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (PTeb. 120.70 (1st c.BC).)]
2 in plural (never δεσμά in this sense), bonds, chains, ἐκ δεσμῶν λυθῆναι [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 509, 770)]; πρὶν ἂν ἐξ ἀγρίων δ. χαλάσῃ[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 177; ἐν δεσμοῖσι 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 63; εἰς δεσμοὺς ἄγειν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 518; δεσμοῖς 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.82)]; ὁ ἐπὶ τῶν δ., ={δεσμοφύλαξ}, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Tox.” 29)]: in singular, collectively, bonds, imprisonment, δ. ἀχλυόεις epigram cited in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.77 (= “IG” 12.394); οὐδὲν ἄξιον δεσμοῦ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.145; ἐν. δ. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 958; ἐν δημοσίῳ δ. δεθείς 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 864e; ἔδησεν ἑαυτὸν τιμησάμενος δεσμοῦ 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 6.21)]: metaphorically of moral bondage, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Porphyrius Tyrius Philosophus “de Abstinentia - Porphyrii Opuscula” 1.38, +others)]
3 ligature, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 495b13, +others)]
4 δ. ἄρθρου in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀγμῶν” 37 is explained by 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus)] (at [prev. work]) as ankylosis.
5 spell, charm, [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th c.AD: Iamblichus Philosophus “de Mysteriis” 3.27.)]
II ={δέσμη}, Papyrus in [Refs 1st c.BC+ (“Philol.” 80.341, 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 2.135, 12th c.AD: Eustathius Episcopus Thessalonicensis 862.27; ἀσπαράγου δ. “BGU” 1120.14 (1st c.BC))]; δ. ἀργυρίου [LXX (LXX.Gen.42.27; compare δέσις 111.)]
plural δεσμά [Refs 6th c.BC+ (“hymnus ad Mercurium” 157, +others, 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 459, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.91)], and so mostly in Trag., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 513, etc., and 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthyphro” 9a; but δεσμοί 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 525, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 518, 634, usually in 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus, as “Lg.” 793b, +others)]: both forms in Attic dialect Inscrr., δεσμοί [Refs (“IG” 2.678 B 48, δεσμά [prev. work] 791.31,)] the latter preferred by [Refs 6th c.AD+ (6th c.AD: Thomas Epigrammaticus Mag. p.79R. (_sing._ δεσμόν “SIG” 246 ii 36 (Delph.))], Attic dialect accusative to [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus): (δέω A))]:—band, bond, anything for tying and fastening, as halter, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.507)]; mooring-cable, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.100, etc.)]; door-latch, [Refs (21.241)]; yoke-strap, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 3.5.10)]: metaphorically, any bond of union or connexion, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 31c, etc.)]; of the vowels, [Refs ([prev. author] “Sph.” 253a)]; δεσμοὶ πολιτείας, of the laws, [Refs ([prev. author] “Lg.” 793b)]; εἰς τὰ δεσμοῦ for binding material, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (PTeb. 120.70 (1st c.BC).)]
2 in plural (never δεσμά in this sense), bonds, chains, ἐκ δεσμῶν λυθῆναι [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 509, 770)]; πρὶν ἂν ἐξ ἀγρίων δ. χαλάσῃ[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 177; ἐν δεσμοῖσι 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 63; εἰς δεσμοὺς ἄγειν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 518; δεσμοῖς 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.82)]; ὁ ἐπὶ τῶν δ., ={δεσμοφύλαξ}, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Tox.” 29)]: in singular, collectively, bonds, imprisonment, δ. ἀχλυόεις epigram cited in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.77 (= “IG” 12.394); οὐδὲν ἄξιον δεσμοῦ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.145; ἐν. δ. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 958; ἐν δημοσίῳ δ. δεθείς 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 864e; ἔδησεν ἑαυτὸν τιμησάμενος δεσμοῦ 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 6.21)]: metaphorically of moral bondage, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Porphyrius Tyrius Philosophus “de Abstinentia - Porphyrii Opuscula” 1.38, +others)]
3 ligature, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 495b13, +others)]
4 δ. ἄρθρου in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀγμῶν” 37 is explained by 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus)] (at [prev. work]) as ankylosis.
5 spell, charm, [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th c.AD: Iamblichus Philosophus “de Mysteriis” 3.27.)]
II ={δέσμη}, Papyrus in [Refs 1st c.BC+ (“Philol.” 80.341, 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 2.135, 12th c.AD: Eustathius Episcopus Thessalonicensis 862.27; ἀσπαράγου δ. “BGU” 1120.14 (1st c.BC))]; δ. ἀργυρίου [LXX (LXX.Gen.42.27; compare δέσις 111.)]