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Prisoner

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Subject type
Subject
Strong’s
H0616, G1198, G1202, H0615, H7628
Hebrew
אַסִּיר · ʼaççîyr
Greek
δέσμιος · desmios

Strong’s and original-language information

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

δέσμιος

G1198
Transliteration
desmios
Language
Greek
Part of speech
G:N-M
Indexed occurrences
16

Glosses

prisoner, in bonds, prisoner

Lexicon definition

δέσμιος, -ον (also -α, -ον; δεσμός), [in LXX for אסר;] __1. binding. __2. bound, captive; ὁ δ., as subst., a prisoner: Mat.27:15, 16, Mrk.15:6, Act.16:25, 27 23:18 25:14, 27 28:16 (Rec.) 17, Heb.10:34 13:3; ὁ δ. τοῦ Χριστοῦ, Eph.3:1, 2Ti.1:8, Phm 1, 9; ὁ δ. ἐν κυρίῳ, Eph.4:1.† (AS)

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

δεσμώτης

G1202
Transliteration
desmōtēs
Language
Greek
Part of speech
G:N-M
Indexed occurrences
2

Glosses

prisoner

Lexicon definition

δεσμώτης, -ου, ὁ [in LXX for אסר, מַסְגֵּר ;] a prisoner: Act.27:1, 42.† (AS)

Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon

אָסִיר

H0615
Transliteration
ʼâçîyr
Pronunciation
aw-sere'
Language
Hebrew
Indexed occurrences
12

Glosses

(those which are) bound, prisoner.

Lexicon definition

bound, i.e. a captive

Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon

שְׁבִי

H7628
Transliteration
shᵉbîy
Pronunciation
sheb-ee'
Language
Hebrew
Indexed occurrences
50

Glosses

captive(-ity), prisoners, [idiom] take away, that was taken.

Lexicon definition

exiled

captured

as noun, exile (abstractly or concretely and collectively)

by extension, booty

Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon

אַסִּיר

H0616
Transliteration
ʼaççîyr
Pronunciation
as-sere'
Language
Hebrew
Indexed occurrences
4

Glosses

prisoner.

Lexicon definition

{bound, i.e. a captive}

Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon

מַסְגֵּר

H4525
Transliteration
maçgêr
Pronunciation
mas-gare'
Language
Hebrew
Indexed occurrences
7

Glosses

prison, smith.

Lexicon definition

a fastener, i.e. (of a person) a smith, (of a thing) a prison

Concordance

Strong's Concordance

Prisoner

Indexed occurrences: 15

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Strong's Concordance

Prisoners

Indexed occurrences: 22

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All Scripture references52 references

Genesis 2

Genesis 39:20Genesis 39:22

Exodus 1

Exodus 12:29

Numbers 1

Numbers 21:1

1 Kings 1

1 Kings 22:27

2 Kings 1

2 Kings 17:4

1 Chronicles 1

1 Chronicles 3:17

Job 2

Job 3:18Job 4:21

Psalms 7

Psalms 68:6Psalms 68:7Psalms 69:34Psalms 79:11Psalms 102:21Psalms 107:10Psalms 146:7

Isaiah 6

Isaiah 10:4Isaiah 14:17Isaiah 24:22Isaiah 42:7Isaiah 49:9Isaiah 61:1

Lamentations 1

Lamentations 3:34

Habakkuk 1

Habakkuk 1:9

Zechariah 2

Zechariah 9:11Zechariah 9:12

Matthew 2

Matthew 27:15Matthew 27:16

Mark 1

Mark 15:6

John 1

John 18:39

Acts 13

Acts 5:18Acts 6:9Acts 9:2Acts 9:21Acts 16:25Acts 16:27Acts 23:18Acts 24:27Acts 25:11Acts 25:27Acts 27:1Acts 27:42Acts 28:17

Romans 1

Romans 16:7

1 Corinthians 1

1 Corinthians 4:9

Ephesians 2

Ephesians 3:1Ephesians 4:1

Colossians 1

Colossians 4:10

2 Timothy 1

2 Timothy 1:8

Philemon 3

Philemon 1:1Philemon 1:9Philemon 1:23

Topical Bible

Nave's Topical Bible

PRISONERS

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Ancient Context2 items

Josephus Antiquities Whiston

How Hadad King Of Damascus And Of Syria, Made Two Expeditions Against Ahab And Was Beaten.

Antiquities Book 8, Chapter 14

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Josephus Antiquities Whiston

Of The Navigation Of King Agrippa To Rome, To Tiberius Cæsar; And Now Upon His Being Accused By His Own Freed-Man, He Was Bound; How Also He, Was Set At Liberty By Caius, After Tiberius's Death And Was Made King Of The Tetrarchy Of Philip.

Antiquities Book 18, Chapter 6

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PRISONERS

Nave’s Topical Bible references for PRISONERS.

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Assir

prisoner; fettered

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Cabins

Only in Jer. 37:16 (R.V., "cells"), arched vaults or recesses off a passage or room; cells for the closer confinement of prisoners.

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Cord

Frequently used in its proper sense, for fastening a tent (Ex. 35:18; 39:40), yoking animals to a cart (Isa. 5:18), binding prisoners (Judg. 15:13; Ps. 2:3; 129:4), and measuring ground (2 Sam. 8;2; Ps. 78:55). Figuratively, death is spoken of as the giving way of the tent-cord (Job 4:21. "Is not their tent-cord plucked up?" R.V.). To gird one's self with a cord was a token of sorrow and humiliation. To stretch a line over a city meant to level it with the ground (Lam. 2:8). The "cords of sin" are the consequences or fruits of sin (Prov. 5:22). A "threefold cord" is a symbol of union (Eccl. 4:12). The "cords of a man" (Hos. 11:4) means that men employ, in inducing each other, methods such as are suitable to men, and not "cords" such as oxen are led by. Isaiah (5:18) says, "Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope." This verse is thus given in the Chaldee paraphrase: "Woe to those who begin to sin by little and little, drawing sin by cords of vanity: these sins grow and increase till they are strong and are like a cart rope." This may be the true meaning. The wicked at first draw sin with a slender cord; but by-and-by their sins increase, and they are drawn after them by a cart rope. Henderson in his commentary says: "The meaning is that the persons described were not satisfied with ordinary modes of provoking the Deity, and the consequent ordinary approach of his vengeance, but, as it were, yoked themselves in the harness of iniquity, and, putting forth all their strength, drew down upon themselves, with accelerated speed, the load of punishment which their sins deserved."

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Festus, Porcius

The successor of Felix (A.D. 60) as procurator of Judea (Acts 24:27). A few weeks after he had entered on his office the case of Paul, then a prisoner at Caesarea, was reported to him. The "next day," after he had gone down to Caesarea, he heard Paul defend himself in the presence of Herod Agrippa II. and his sister Bernice, and not finding in him anything worthy of death or of bonds, would have set him free had he not appealed unto Caesar (Acts 25:11, 12). In consequence of this appeal Paul was sent to Rome. Festus, after being in office less than two years, died in Judea. (See [209]AGRIPPA.)

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Libertine

Found only Acts 6:9, one who once had been a slave, but who had been set at liberty, or the child of such a person. In this case the name probably denotes those descendants of Jews who had been carried captives to Rome as prisoners of war by Pompey and other Roman generals in the Syrian wars, and had afterwards been liberated. In A.D. 19 these manumitted Jews were banished from Rome. Many of them found their way to Jerusalem, and there established a synagogue.

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Prison

The first occasion on which we read of a prison is in the history of Joseph in Egypt. Then Potiphar, "Joseph's master, took him, and put him into the prison, a place where the king's prisoners were bound" (Gen. 39:20-23). The Heb. word here used (sohar) means properly a round tower or fortress. It seems to have been a part of Potiphar's house, a place in which state prisoners were kept. The Mosaic law made no provision for imprisonment as a punishment. In the wilderness two persons were "put in ward" (Lev. 24:12; Num. 15:34), but it was only till the mind of God concerning them should be ascertained. Prisons and prisoners are mentioned in the book of Psalms (69:33; 79:11; 142:7). Samson was confined in a Philistine prison (Judg. 16:21, 25). In the subsequent history of Israel frequent references are made to prisons (1 Kings 22:27; 2 Kings 17:4; 25:27, 29; 2 Chr. 16:10; Isa. 42:7; Jer. 32:2). Prisons seem to have been common in New Testament times (Matt. 11:2; 25:36, 43). The apostles were put into the "common prison" at the instance of the Jewish council (Acts 5:18, 23; 8:3); and at Philippi Paul and Silas were thrust into the "inner prison" (16:24; comp. 4:3; 12:4, 5).

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Timothy, Second Epistle to

Was probably written a year or so after the first, and from Rome, where Paul was for a second time a prisoner, and was sent to Timothy by the hands of Tychicus. In it he entreats Timothy to come to him before winter, and to bring Mark with him (comp. Phil. 2:22). He was anticipating that "the time of his departure was at hand" (2 Tim. 4:6), and he exhorts his "son Timothy" to all diligence and steadfastness, and to patience under persecution (1:6-15), and to a faithful discharge of all the duties of his office (4:1-5), with all the solemnity of one who was about to appear before the Judge of quick and dead.

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