H612 אֵסוּר (ʼêçûwr) ay-soor'

Hebrew

Noun (Masculine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

bond

Strong's Definition

a bond (especially manacles of a prisoner)

Derivation: from H631 (אָסַר);

KJV Usage: band, [phrase] prison.

TWOT Reference: 141a

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) band, bond

2) house of bonds, prison (figurative)

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G3862

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

אֵסוּר (e.sur) — bond. 1) band, bond 2) house of bonds, prison (figurative) Aramaic equivalent: e.sur (אֱסוּר "bond" H0613)

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

אֵסוּר (H0612)

noun m · אסר

Cords | ≈ חֵרֶם · מָצֹוד

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

JDG 15:14 · ECC 7:26

Buildings

Collocation: בֵּית הָאֵסוּר · בֵּית הָאֲסוּרִים

prison literally: house of bonds; hence: = building where people are kept prisoner

JDG 16:21 · JDG 16:25 · JER 37:15

Reinier de Blois

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

אֵסוּר n.m. band, bond base

Bible Occurrences (3)

15:14

7:26

37:15

Judges 15:14

When [Samson] arrived in Lehi, the Philistines came out shouting against him. And the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him. The ropes on his arms became like burnt... flax, and the bonds broke loose from his hands.

Ecclesiastes 7:26

And I find more bitter than death the woman who... [is] a snare, whose heart [is] a net, and whose hands [are] chains. The man who pleases... God escapes her, but the sinner is ensnared.

Jeremiah 37:15

The officials were angry with Jeremiah, and they beat him and placed him in jail... in the house of Jonathan the scribe, for it had been made into a prison....