אֱסוּר
ʼĕçûwr · H613 · Aramaic · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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band, chain
A flat, thin strip of metal material used to tie objects to other objects; associated with power and control over something or someone else
ExamplesDaniel 4:15 “Yet leave the stump with its roots in the ground, But with a band of iron and bronze around it In the new grass of the field; And let him be drenched with the dew of heaven, And let him share with the animals in the grass of the earth.
Daniel 4:23 ‘And in that the king saw an angelic watcher, a holy one, descending from heaven and saying, “Chop down the tree and destroy it; yet leave the stump with its roots in the ground, but with a band of iron and bronze around it in the new grass of the field, let him be drenched with the dew of heaven, and let him share with the animals of the field until seven periods of time pass over him,”
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imprisonment
Literally: chains; hence: a state in which humans are confined to a certain location, as if they are bound with chains
ExamplesEzra 7:26 “And whoever does not comply with the Law of your God and the law of the king, judgment is to be executed upon him strictly, whether for death or for banishment, or for confiscation of property or for imprisonment.”
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- נְחָשׁbrass 2
- פַּרְזֶלiron 2
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אֲמַרto say 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- בin/on/with 2
- לto/for 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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Semantic domains 2 entries
- Cords001003001001004
- אֱסוּר (Aramaic) names a band or fetter, as the tree in Nebuchadnezzar's dream bound with a fetter of iron and bronze.
- Control002003002007
- The word also names imprisonment as a judicial penalty, one of the punishments Ezra was authorized to impose.
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H613. esur אֱסוּר noun [masculine] band, bond (אֵיסוּר אֲסוּר, ᵑ7, Syriac , ); — absolute…
אֱסוּר noun [masculine] band, bond (אֵיסוּר אֲסוּר, ᵑ7, Syriac , ); — absolute ׳א Dan 4:12; Dan 4:20 (of iron and bronze, for stump, in Nebuchadnezzar's vision); plural absolute אֱסוּרִין Ezr 7:26 bonds = imprisonment.
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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