H612 - אֵסוּר (ʼêçûwr)

H612 אֵסוּר (ʼêçûwr) ay-soor'

Hebrew

Noun (Masculine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

bond

Strong's Definition

a bond (especially manacles of a prisoner)

Derivation: from H631 (אָסַר);

KJV Usage: band, [phrase] prison.

TWOT Reference: 141a

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) band, bond

2) house of bonds, prison (figurative)

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G3862

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

1) band, bond 2) house of bonds, prison (figurative) Aramaic equivalent: e.sur (אֱסוּר "bond" H0613)

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

אֵסוּר êsûr BDB Definition: 1) band, bond 2) house of bonds, prison (figurative) Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from H631 Same Word by TWOT Number: 141a Total KJV Occurrences: 4

Bible Occurrences (3)

15:14

7:26

37:15

Judges 15:14

When [Samson] arrived in Lehi, the Philistines came out shouting against him. And the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him. The ropes on his arms became like burnt... flax, and the bonds broke loose from his hands.

Ecclesiastes 7:26

And I find more bitter than death the woman who... [is] a snare, whose heart [is] a net, and whose hands [are] chains. The man who pleases... God escapes her, but the sinner is ensnared.

Jeremiah 37:15

The officials were angry with Jeremiah, and they beat him and placed him in jail... in the house of Jonathan the scribe, for it had been made into a prison....