Hebrew Word Study · Strong’s H631
אָסַר
a.sar · “to bind”
Used 73 times across 18 books
Definition
1) to tie, bind, imprison
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to tie, bind
1a2) to tie, harness
1a3) to bind (with cords)
1a4) to gird (rare and late)
1a5) to begin the battle, make the attack
1a6) of obligation of oath (figurative)
1b) (Niphal) to be imprisoned, bound
1c) (Pual) to be taken prisoner
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to tie, bind
1a2) to tie, harness
1a3) to bind (with cords)
1a4) to gird (rare and late)
1a5) to begin the battle, make the attack
1a6) of obligation of oath (figurative)
1b) (Niphal) to be imprisoned, bound
1c) (Pual) to be taken prisoner
Where it appears
Genesis9
Exodus1
Numbers11
Judges17
1 Samuel2
2 Samuel1
1 Kings2
2 Kings7
2 Chronicles3
Nehemiah1
Job3
Psalms4
Ecclesiastes1
Song of Solomon1
Isaiah4
Jeremiah4
Ezekiel1
Hosea1
In the text
Genesis 39:20And Joseph’s master took him, and put him into the prison, a place where the king’s prisoners were bound: and he was there in the prison.Genesis 40:3And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.Genesis 40:5And they dreamed a dream both of them, each man his dream in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, which were bound in the prison.Genesis 42:16Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be kept in prison, that your words may be proved, whether there be any truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye are spies.Genesis 42:19If ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your prison: go ye, carry corn for the famine of your houses:Genesis 42:24And he turned himself about from them, and wept; and returned to them again, and communed with them, and took from them Simeon, and bound him before their eyes.Genesis 46:29And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen, and presented himself unto him; and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.Genesis 49:11Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass’s colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes:Exodus 14:6And he made ready his chariot, and took his people with him:Numbers 30:3If a woman also vow a vow unto the Lord, and bind herself by a bond, being in her father’s house in her youth;
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