אַסִּיר
ʼaççîyr · H616 · Hebrew · 4 occurrences
Meanings
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prisoner, captive
Usually used as collective: person who is locked up in a prison or other location where one does not have the freedom to act and go at will
ExamplesIsaiah 10:4 Nothing remains but to crouch among the captives Or fall among those killed. In spite of all this, His anger does not turn away And His hand is still stretched out.
Isaiah 24:22 They will be gathered together Like prisoners in the dungeon, And will be confined in prison; And after many days they will be punished.
Isaiah 42:7 To open blind eyes, To bring out prisoners from the dungeon And those who dwell in darkness from the prison.
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
Named alongside itApposition
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- יְכׇנְיָהJehoiachin 1
- אֲסֵפָהgathering 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- יָצָאto go out 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- תַּחַתunder, below, instead of 2
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 1 word
- שְׁבִי shᵉbîy · H7628 · taking captive, carrying off, captive
- שְׁבִי refers to captives or those taken into captivity, often in a military or exile context. While both denote people deprived of freedom, שְׁבִי emphasizes the state of being captured or exiled, whereas אַסִּיר focuses on imprisonment or being bound.
Contrasting words 1 word
- חׇפְשִׁי chophshîy · H2670 · free
- חָפְשִׁי denotes one who is free, liberated, or released from bondage—the direct lexical opposite of אַסִּיר (prisoner, one bound).
In the other Testament 2 words
- δέσμιος désmios · G1198 · prisoner
- δέσμιος is the standard Greek term for 'prisoner' or 'one bound,' the direct translation equivalent of אַסִּיר. Both denote a person held in captivity or confinement.
- αἰχμάλωτος aichmálōtos · G164 · captive, prisoner of war
- αἰχμάλωτος denotes a captive or prisoner, particularly one taken in war. While it overlaps semantically with אַסִּיר, it emphasizes the context of military capture rather than general imprisonment.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- People001001003
- אַסִּיר names a prisoner, as Jeconiah described as "the prisoner" in the genealogical record (1 Chronicles 3:17).
- Names of People003001007
- The identical form also names Assir as a personal name (see אַסִּיר (ʼAççîyr, H617)), though this entry's own four tagged citations (1 Chronicles 3:17; Isaiah 10:4; 24:22; 42:7) all reflect the common noun "prisoner," not the personal name.
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H616. assir אַסִּיר noun [masculine] mostly collective prisoners (according to Ol§ 185 a…
אַסִּיר noun [masculine] mostly collective prisoners (according to Ol§ 185 a corruption of אָסִיר, compare LagBN 110) taken in battle Isa 10:4 (LagSymm i. 105; GGA 1884, 259 reads אֹסִיר חַת etc., Osiris is broken, but compare Checritical note.), Isa 24:22 (simile of judgment upon kings of earth); Isa 42:7 (|| חשֶׁךְ ישְׁבֵי; reference to exiled Israel, but see also Hi Che Di); 1Ch 3:17 אַסִּר יְכָנְיָה בְּנֵי probably = sons of Jeconiah the captive (yet note omission of article) so Be Zö Öttli and others; ᵑ9 ᵐ5 translated as proper name
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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