Hebrew

Chains

אֲזֵקStrong’s H0246

aziqqim (a-ziq-qim)

Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Aziqqim is the Hebrew word usually translated “chains”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.

“The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, after that Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him being bound in chains among all that were carried away captive of Jerusalem and Judah, which were carried away captive unto Babylon.”

Jeremiah 40:1 KJV

Meaning

Chains, manacles

How it's translated

with chains 1
the chains 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Jeremiah 2

1 book in all.

Related words

Explore in Scripture

Jeremiah 40:4And now, behold, I loose thee this day from the chains which were upon thine hand. If it seem good unto thee to come with me into Babylon, come; and I will look well unto thee: but if it seem ill unto thee to come with me into Babylon, forbear: behold, all the land is before thee: whither it seemeth good and convenient for thee to go, thither go.

Hebrew dictionary

אֲזֵק aziqqim · chains

chains, manacles

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “chain” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

CHAIN, noun

A series of links or rings connected, or fitted into one another, usually made of some kind of metal, as a chain of gold, or of iron; but the word is not restricted to any particular kind of material.
That which binds; a real chain; that which restrains, confines, or fetters; a bond.“If God spared not the angels that sinned, but delivered them into chains of darkness” 2 Peter 2:4
Bondage; affliction.“He hath made my chain heavy” Lamentations 3:7
Bondage; slavery.

All definitions and other forms of “chain”

Ornament. Proverbs 1:9
A series of things linked together; a series of things connected or following in succession; as a chain of causes, of ideas, or events; a chain of being.
A range, or line of things connected, as a chain of mountains.
A series of links, forming an instrument to measure land.
A string of twisted wire, or something similar, to hang a watch on, and for other purposes.
In France, a measure of wood for fuel, and various commodities, of various length.
In ship-building, chains are strong links or plates of iron, bolted at the lower end to the ships side, used to contain the blocks called dead eyes, by which the shrouds of the mast are extended.
The warp in weaving, as in French.

CHAIN, verb transitive

To fasten, bind or connect with a chain; to fasten or bind with any thing in the manner of a chain
To enslave; to keep in slavery.
To guard with a chain as a harbor or passage.
To unite; to form chain-work.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.