Bond
אֵסוּרStrong’s H0612esur (e-sur)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Esur is the Hebrew word usually translated “bonds his”, “fetters” and “fetter”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And when he came unto Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him: and the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and the cords that were upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands loosed from off his hands.”
Meaning
- Band, bond
- House of bonds, prison (figurative)
How it's translated
- bonds his 1
- fetters 1
- fetter 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Judges 1
- Ecclesiastes 1
- Jeremiah 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Ecclesiastes 7:26And 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.
- Jeremiah 37:15Wherefore 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.
Hebrew dictionary
אֵסוּר esur · bond
1) band, bond 2) house of bonds, prison (figurative) Aramaic equivalent: e.sur (אֱסוּר "bond" H0613)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “bond” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BOND, noun
- Anything that binds, as a cord, a chain, a rope; a band.
- Ligament; that which holds things together.
- Union; connection; a binding.
- In the plural, chains; imprisonment; captivity.
All definitions and other forms of “bond”
- Cause of union; cement which unites; link of connection; as the bonds of affection.“Charity is the bond of perfectness” Colossians 3:14
- An obligation imposing a moral duty, as by a vow, or promise, by law or other means.
- In law, an obligation or deed by which a person binds himself, his heirs, executors, and administrators, to pay a certain sum, on or before a future day appointed.
BOND, adjective
[for bound.]
In a state of servitude, or slavery; captive.
- “Whether we be jews or Gentiles; whether we be bond or free” 1 Corinthians 12:13
BOND, verb transitive
To give bond for; as for duties or customs at a custom house; to secure payment of, by giving a bond
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.