Strong H612אֵסוּר

bond

Transliteration
'êsûr
Pronunciation
ay-soor'
Morphology
Hebrew Noun (Masculine)

Definition

From H631; a bond (especially manacles of a prisoner): - {band} + prison.

Detailed definition

1) band, bond
2) house of bonds, prison (figurative)
Aramaic equivalent: e.sur (אֱסוּר "bond" H613)

In the Bible

Strong H612 appears in 3 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • band2
  • prison1

First verses

  1. Judges 15:14
    And when he came unto Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him: and the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him, and the cords that were upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands loosed from off his hands.
  2. Ecclesiastes 7:26
    And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
  3. Jeremiah 37:15
    Wherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison.
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