δεσμός, δεσμοῦ, ὁ (δέω) (from Homer down), a band or bond: Mar_7:35 (ἐλύθη ὁ δεσμός τῆς γλώσσης αὐτοῦ, i. e. the impediment in his speech was removed); Luk_13:16 (λυθῆναι ἀπό τοῦ δεσμοῦ, of a woman bowed together, held fasces it were by a bond). The plural form τά δεσμά the more common form in Greek writers (Winers Grammar, 63 (62) (cf. Buttmann, 23 (21); see below)), is found in Luk_8:29; Act_16:26; Act_20:23; the other form οἱ δεσμοί in Php_1:13 (ὥστε τούς δεσμούς μου φανερούς ἐν Χριστῷ γενέσθαι, so that my captivity became manifest as made for the cause of Christ) ("δεσμάsuntvinculaquibusquisconstringitur,sed δεσμόςestincarceremconjectioetcaptivitasinvinculis ...UtraqueformaetceteriGraeciomnesetAtticiutuntur,sednonpromiscueutintersepermutaripossint." Cobet as quoted in Rutherford, New Phryn., p. 353); the genitive and dative in Act_22:30 Rec.; ; Php_1:7; Php_1:14; Php_1:16 (); Col_4:18; 2Ti_2:9; Phm_1:10; Heb_10:34 R Tr marginal reading; Heb_11:36; Jud_1:6; ἐν τοῖς δεσμοῖς τοῦ εὐαγγελίου, in the captivity into which the preaching of the gospel has thrown me, Phm_1:13 (Winer's Grammar, 189 (178); cf. reference under the word δέσμιος, at the end).

δεσμός desmos 18x a bond, anything by which one is bound, a cord, chain, fetters, etc.; and by meton. imprisonment, Luk_8:29 ; Act_16:26 ; Act_20:23 ; a string or ligament, as of the tongue, Mar_7:35 ; met. an impediment, infirmity, Luk_13:16 bond; chain; fetter.

δεσμός , -οῦ , ὁ ( < δέω ), [in LXX chiefly for H631 ;] a band, bond: metaph ., Luk_13:16 ; ὁ δεσμὸς τ . γλώσοης , Mar_7:35 (for this expression in Papyri, v. Deiss., LAE , 306 ff .; of actual bonds, v. Ruth., Gr ., 9). Pl., δεσμοί , Php_1:13 ; δεσμά (as also in cl .), Luk_8:29 , Act_16:26 ; Act_20:23 ; gen ., dat ., Act_23:29 ; Act_26:29 ; Act_26:31 Php_1:7 ; Php_1:14 ; Php_1:17 , Col_4:18 , 2Ti_2:9 , Phm_1:10 , Heb_11:36 , Jud_1:6 ; ἐν τοῖς δ . τοῦ εὐαγγελίου Phm_1:13 ,†

δεσμός (~ δεσμόν ) [page 142] For the full force of ὁ δεσμὸς τῆς γλώσσης , the bond of the tongue, in Mar_7:35 , reference may be made to Deissmann LAE , p. 306 ff., where it is shown that the expression has a technical meaning derived from the old belief that a man was bound by daemonic influences. The man was not merely made to speak, but daemonic fetters were broken, and Satan s work undone. The plur. τὰ δεσμά , which in the NT is characteristic of the Lucan writings, would seem to be more literary than οἱ δεσμοί , the general LXX form : see Thackeray Gr. i. p. 154. According to Mayser Gr. p. 285 the neuter plur. is never found in the Ptolemaic papyri, nor can we supply any instance from a later period. In the Attic inscriptions both forms are found (see Meisterhans Gr. p. 143) with apparently no distinction of meaning, so that Cobet s distinction ( Mnemosyne , 1858, p. 74 ff.) that the neuter refers to actual bonds, the masculine to the imprisonment, cannot be maintained : cf. Kennedy on Php_1:13 in EGT. By origin, δεσμά should be collective and δεσμοί individualizing, which would be the very opposite of Cobet s dictum; but usage may well have introduced a new differentia. A spell for loosing bonds (δυσμολύτον , sic ) may be cited from P Leid W vii. 30 (ii/iii A.D.) λυθήτω πᾶς δεσμώς , πᾶσα βία , ῥαγήτω πᾶς σίτηρω ( i.e. σίδηρος ) κτλ . A curiously close parallel for Heb_11:36 ( . . . πεῖραν ἔλαβον , ἔτι δὲ δεσμῶν καὶ φυλακῆς ) occurs in Vettius Valens p. 68 .17 δεσμῶν πεῖραν ἐπὶ χρόνον ἱκανὸν λαμβάνοντας , ἕως συμπληρώσωσι τοὺς χρόνους τοῦ ἀστέρος .

δεσμός, -οῦ, ὁ (δέω), [in LXX chiefly for אסר ;] a band, bond: metaphorically, Luk.13:16; ὁ δεσμὸς τ. γλώσσης, Mrk.7:35 (for this expression in π., see Deiss., LAE, 306 ff.; of actual bonds, see Ruth., Gr., 9). Pl., δεσμοί, Php.1:13; δεσμά (as also in cl.), Luk.8:29, Act.16:26 20:23; genitive, dative, Act.23:29 26:29, 31, Php.1:7, 14, 17, Col.4:18, 2Ti.2:9, Phm 10, Heb.11:36, Ju 6; ἐν τοῖς δ. τοῦ εὐαγγελίου Phm 13.† (AS)