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# אֵסוּר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H612

**band** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

band [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/612/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֵסוּר: n.m. band, bond [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/612/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ju 15:14 band, bond (Aramaic אֱסוּר, ܐܰܣܘܽܪܳܐ; on the form v. Ges§ 84 a 12. R.) אֲסוּרָיו, of Samson Ju 15:14; אֲסוּרִים Ec 7:26 of hands of evil woman; בֵּית הָאֵסוּר = prison Je 37:15.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[are\] fetters (1); fetter\[s\] (1); fetters (1).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 37:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.37.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.37.15/#tree)

וַיִּקְצְפ֧וּ הַשָּׂרִ֛ים עַֽל־יִרְמְיָ֖הוּ וְהִכּ֣וּ אֹת֑וֹ וְנָתְנ֨וּ אוֹת֜וֹ בֵּ֣ית הָאֵס֗וּר בֵּ֚ית יְהוֹנָתָ֣ן הַסֹּפֵ֔ר כִּֽי־אֹת֥וֹ עָשׂ֖וּ לְבֵ֥ית הַכֶּֽלֶא׃

*Word for word:* and they.were.angry the officials towards Jeremiah and they.struck him and they.put him the.house of.(the) fetter\[s\] the.house of.Jonathan the scribe (dm) it they.had.made into.(the) house of.(the) imprisonment

*JPS 1917:* And the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe; for they had made that the prison.

[Ecclesiastes 7:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.7.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.7.26/#tree)

וּמוֹצֶ֨א אֲנִ֜י מַ֣ר מִמָּ֗וֶת אֶת־הָֽאִשָּׁה֙ אֲשֶׁר־הִ֨יא מְצוֹדִ֧ים וַחֲרָמִ֛ים לִבָּ֖הּ אֲסוּרִ֣ים יָדֶ֑יהָ ט֞וֹב לִפְנֵ֤י הָאֱלֹהִים֙ יִמָּלֵ֣ט מִמֶּ֔נָּה וְחוֹטֵ֖א יִלָּ֥כֶד בָּֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* and.\[was\] finding I bitter more than.death (et) the woman who she \[is\].snares and.\[is\] nets heart her \[are\].fetters hands her a.\[person\].good before (the) God he.escapes from her and a.sinner he.is.captured by her

*JPS 1917:* and I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands; whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/612.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/612/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).