asir · prisoner

What it means

asir (אָסִיר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “prisoner”.

Captive.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A person shut up in a jail or bound in chains.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• prisoners ×10
• prisoner ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• Job×1
• Psalms×4
• Isaiah×1
• Lamentations×1
• Zechariah×2

• Genesis 39:20

  Joseph’s lord took him and put him into the prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were confined; and he was there in the prison.

• Genesis 39:22

  The chief of the prison put into the hand of Joseph all the prisoners who were in the prison; and all that was done there, he was the one doing it.

• Job 3:18

  Together the prisoners are untroubled; they do not hear the voice of the taskmaster.

• Psalms 68:6

  Elohim makes the solitary dwell in a home; he brings out prisoners into prosperity; but the rebellious dwell in a parched land.

• Psalms 69:33

  For YHWH hears the needy, and his prisoners he does not despise.

• Psalms 102:20

  to hear the groaning of the prisoner, to set free the sons of death,

• Psalms 107:10

  Those who sat in darkness and the shadow of death, prisoners of affliction and of iron,

• Isaiah 14:17

  who made the world like a wilderness and tore down its cities, and his prisoners he did not release to their home?’

• Lamentations 3:34

  To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,

• Zechariah 9:11

  As for you also, because of the blood of your covenant, I have set free your prisoners from the cistern in which there is no water.

• Zechariah 9:12

  Return to the stronghold, prisoners of hope; even today I declare that double I will restore to you.