אֵסוּר
ʼêçûwr · H612 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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thong, strap, bond, cord
Material used to tie objects together or to tie animals or humans; associated with power and control over something or someone else
ExamplesJudges 15:14 When he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him. And the Spirit of the LORD rushed upon him so that the ropes that were on his arms were like flax that has burned with fire, and his restraints dropped from his hands.
Ecclesiastes 7:26 And I discovered as more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, whose hands are chains. One who is pleasing to God will escape from her, but the sinner will be captured by her.
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prison
Literally: house of bonds; hence: building where people are kept prisoner
ExamplesJeremiah 37:15 Then the officials were angry at Jeremiah and they beat him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe, for they had made it into the prison.
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הוּhis 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מָסַסto melt 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- יָדhand, power 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בַּיִתhouse, household 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 8 words
- מוֹסֵר môwçêr · H4147 · thong, strap, bond
- Both words denote physical restraints or bindings. אֵסוּר (ʼêçûwr, H612) also carries the sense of a prison, a broader range covering the place as well as the implement, but its core sense of a band overlaps with מוֹסֵר (môwçêr, H4147).
- אֲזִקִּים ʼăziqqîym · H246 · chains, fetters
- Both words denote restraint or binding devices, implements for binding or restraining.
- סַד çad · H5465 · stocks
- Both words denote instruments of binding and restraint, such as stocks, bands and fetters.
- רַתִּיקָה rattîyqâh · H7572 · chain
- Both words denote devices of restraint, a band or fetter and a chain, and can substitute for each other in contexts of binding or imprisonment.
- זִיקָה zîyqâh · H2131 · chains, fetters, firebrand
- זֵק (‘chain, fetter, firebrand, spark’) has two distinct semantic clusters — restraints and fire-related items — and the target lexeme (‘band, prison’) denotes binding restraints or confinement structures. Only the restraint sense of זֵק (chain, fetter) genuinely overlaps with the target lexeme’s binding sense, making this a real but narrow near-synonym relationship limited to that shared sense.
- שַׁרְשְׁרָה sharshᵉrâh · H8333 · chain
- Both words denote physical restraints used to confine, a band and a chain.
- כֶּבֶל kebel · H3525 · fetters, shackles
- Both words denote physical restraints that bind or restrict movement, such as fetters and shackles.
- מַהְפֶּכֶת mahpeketh · H4115 · stocks, prison
- מַהְפֶּכֶת emphasizes physical restraint devices (stocks); אֵסוּר emphasizes binding/band as instrument of imprisonment.
In the other Testament 1 word
- δεσμόν desmón · G1199 · bonds, chains, fetters
- Greek δεσμόν denotes physical bonds or restraints (ligaments, shackles, impediments), serving as the direct translation equivalent for Hebrew אֵסוּר in its sense of binding or imprisonment.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Cords001003001001004
- אֵסוּר names a band or binding cord, as the ropes on Samson's arms that snapped like burnt flax.
- Buildings001003002001
- The word can also refer to a place of confinement, a prison where such bonds are used to hold someone.
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H612. esur אסר (√ of following; Biblical Hebrew [ אָסַר] bind, אֵסוּר bond, אִסָּר…
אסר (√ of following; Biblical Hebrew [ אָסַר] bind, אֵסוּר bond, אִסָּר binding obligation).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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