אֱסוּר
esur · imprisonment
Aramaic word · Strong’s number H613 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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esur (אֱסוּר) is an Aramaic word of the Bible that means “imprisonment”.
Bond, chain; hence, prison (Aramaic). Related to the Hebrew "asar", "to bind".
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 and binds.
- To be shut up in a prison, as a penalty.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- band ×2
- imprisonment ×1
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Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Ezra 7:26
And whoever does not carry out the law of your Elah and the law of the king, with diligence let judgment be executed on him, whether for death, or for uprooting, or for a fine of goods, or for imprisonment.”
- Daniel 4:15
But leave the stump of its roots in the earth, and with a band of iron and bronze, in the grass of the field; and with the dew of the heavens let him be drenched, and with the animals be his portion in the grass of the earth.
- Daniel 4:23
And as for what the king saw, a watcher and a holy one coming down from the heavens and saying, ‘Cut down the tree and destroy it, but leave the stump of its roots in the earth, and with a band of iron and bronze, in the grass of the field; and with the dew of the heavens let him be drenched, and with the animals of the field be his portion, until seven times pass over him’: