H612: אֵסוּר
ʼêçûwr · pronounced ay-soor' · “bond”
Definition
a bond (especially manacles of a prisoner)
KJV translates it as: band, [phrase] prison.
Word origin: from H631 (אָסַר);
Extended definition
2) house of bonds, prison (figurative)
Aramaic equivalent: e.sur (אֱסוּר "bond" H0613)
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H612 is translated
- his ×1
- are fetters ×1
- fetters ×1
Bible verses with H612 (ʼêçûwr)
ʼêçûwr appears in 3 verses.
- Judges 15:14
And when he came unto Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him: and the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him, and the cords that were upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands loosed from off his hands.
- Ecclesiastes 7:26
And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
- Jeremiah 37:15
Wherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison.