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# אִסָּר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H632

**bond** — used 11 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

bond [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/632/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אִסָּר: n.m. bond, binding obligation [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/632/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Nu 30:8 bond, binding obligation (cf. Biblical Aramaic אֱבָר, Syriac ܐܶܣܳܪ; so forms with suff. infr. v. BaNB62 cf. Sta§ 208a; but perhaps Aramaic loanword v. LagBN 175)—א׳ abs. Nu 30:3 +; cstr. אִסַּר v 13; sf. אֱסָרָהּ v 5; pl. sf. אֱסָרֶיהָ v 6, 15, אֱסָרֶהָ v 8—only Nu 30 (P), binding obligation of oath or vow; mostly acc. cogn. with אָסַר (q.v.); Nu 30:3, 4, 5(×2), 6, 8, 11, 12; אִסַּר נַפְשָׁהּ v 13; שְׁבֻעַת אִסָּר binding oath v 14.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 10 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: an obligation (3); obligation (3); obligations (3).

## In the verses

[Numbers 30:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.30.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.30.11/#tree)

וְאִם־בֵּ֥ית אִישָׁ֖הּ נָדָ֑רָה אֽוֹ־אָסְרָ֥ה אִסָּ֛ר עַל־נַפְשָׁ֖הּ בִּשְׁבֻעָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and if the.house her.husband her she.has.vowed or she.bound an.obligation on self her by an.oath

*JPS 1917:* And if a woman vowed in her husband's house, or bound her soul by a bond with an oath,

[Numbers 30:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.30.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.30.4/#tree)

וְאִשָּׁ֕ה כִּֽי־תִדֹּ֥ר נֶ֖דֶר לַיהוָ֑ה וְאָסְרָ֥ה אִסָּ֛ר בְּבֵ֥ית אָבִ֖יהָ בִּנְעֻרֶֽיהָ׃

*Word for word:* and a.woman (dm) she.will.vow a.vow to Yahweh and she.will.bind an.obligation in the.house her.father her in youth(s) her

*JPS 1917:* Also when a woman voweth a vow unto the LORD, and bindeth herself by a bond, being in her father's house, in her youth,

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/632.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/632/): 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).