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# אָסִיר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H615

**bondman** — used 12 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

bondman [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/615/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אָסִיר: n.m. bondman, prisoner [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/615/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Gn 39:20 bondman, prisoner (Arabic أَسِيرٌ, Aramaic ܐܰܣܝܺܪܳܐ, MI אסר)—א׳ abs. ψ 79:11; 102:21; pl. אֲסִירִם Gn 39:22 +, cf. Ju 16:21, 25 Kt; cstr. אֲסִירֵי ψ 107:10 +, Gn 39:20 Qr; אֲסִירָיו ψ 69:34 +, etc.;—prisoner Gn 39:20, 22 (J), elsewhere only poetic; Is 14:17; as having rest in grave from task-master Jb 3:18; especially as obj. of divine compassion ψ 68:7 (‖ יָחִיד), 69:34 (‖ אֶבְיוֹן); אֶנְקַת א׳ 79:11; 102:21 (both ‖ בְּנֵי תְמוּתָה), 107:10 א׳ עֳנִי וּבַרְזֶל (‖ ישְׁבֵי חֹשֶׁךְ וְצַלְמָ֑וֶת); cf. א׳ אָ֑רֶץ La 3:34; specif. of liberated exiles of Isr. Zc 9:11, called captives of hope א׳ הַתִּקְוָה v 12.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 12 of its verses cited, 1 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: prisoners (7); O prisoners (1); \[the\] prisoners (1).

## In the verses

[Job 3:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.3.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.3.18/#tree)

יַ֭חַד אֲסִירִ֣ים שַׁאֲנָ֑נוּ לֹ֥א שָׁ֝מְע֗וּ ק֣וֹל נֹגֵֽשׂ׃

*Word for word:* together prisoners they.are.at.ease not they.hear \[the\].voice of.a.taskmaster

*JPS 1917:* There the prisoners are at ease together; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster.

[Psalms 102:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.102.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.102.21/#tree)

לִ֭שְׁמֹעַ אֶנְקַ֣ת אָסִ֑יר לְ֝פַתֵּ֗חַ בְּנֵ֣י תְמוּתָֽה׃

*Word for word:* to hear \[the\].groaning of.prisoner\[s\] to set.free \[the\].sons of.death

*JPS 1917:* To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/615.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/615/): 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).