אֵסוּר
e.sur
“bond”
Definition
a bond (especially manacles of a prisoner)
from H631 (אָסַר);
- band, bond 2) house of bonds, prison (figurative) Aramaic equivalent: e.sur (*אֱסוּר *"bond" H0613)
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word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Masculine)
H:N-M
H:N-M
Occurrences
אֵסוּר appears 3 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
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.
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.
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.
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