אֵסוּר
esur · bond
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H612 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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esur (אֵסוּר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “bond”.
The rope or chain with which a prisoner is held.
How to say it
e·sur
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
- What holds a prisoner; the jail.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- bonds ×2
- imprisonment ×1
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Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Judges 15:14
He came as far as Lehi, and the Philistines shouted in triumph to meet him. And the spirit of YHWH came powerfully upon him, and the ropes that were on his arms became like flax that has burned in fire, and his bonds melted from off his hands.
- Ecclesiastes 7:26
And I find more bitter than death the woman who is traps, and her heart nets, her hands bonds; the one who is good before Elohim will escape from her, but the sinner will be caught by her.
- Jeremiah 37:15
And the princes were angry with Jeremiah, and they struck him and put him in the house of imprisonment, in the house of Jonathan the scribe, for they had made it into the prison.