βρόχος, βροχου, ὁ, a noose, slip-knot, by which any person or thing is caught, or fastened, or suspended (from Homer down): βρόχον ἐπιβάλλειν τίνι to throw a noose upon one, a figurative expression borrowed from war (or the chase) (so βρόχος περιβάλλειν τίνι, Philo, vit. Moys. iii. § 34; Josephus, b. j. 7, 7, 4), i. e. by craft or by force to bind one to some necessity, to constrain him to obey some command, 1Co_7:35.

βρόχος brochos 1x a cord, noose, 1Co_7:35

βρόχος , -ου , ὁ , [in LXX : Pro_6:5 ( H3027 ) Pro_7:21 ( H2506 ) Pro_22:25 ( H4170 ), 3Ma_4:8 * ;] a noose, a slip-knot, a halter: metaph ., a restraint (not, as AV , R , txt ., a snare ): 1Co_7:35 .†

βρόχος [page 118] In P Oxy I. 51 .16 (A.D. 173) a public physician, who had been ordered to examine into the cause of a death, reports that he had found the body ἀπηρτημένον βρόχῳ , hanged by a noose. The verb is found in the iv/A.D. Acts of John , P Oxy VI. 850 .6 ἐννοοῦν̣[τα ] β [ρ ]οχίσαι ἑαυτόν , one who was intending to hang himself.

βρόχος "a noose or slip-knot, for hanging or strangling", Od. , Hdt. , Soph. :— "a snare for birds", Ar. :— "the mesh" of a net; metaph., ληφθέντες ἐν ταὐτῶι βρόχωι Aesch.

βρόχος, -ου, ὁ, [in LXX: Pro.6:5 (יָד) 7:21 (חֵלֶק) 22:25 (מוֹקֵשׁ), 3Ma.4:8 * ;] a noose, a slip-knot, a halter: metaphorically, a restraint (not, as AV, R, txt., a snare): 1Co.7:35.† (AS)