Prisoner
אָסִירStrong’s H0615asir (a-sir)
Appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Asir is the Hebrew word usually translated “prisoners of”, “prisoners” and “prisoners his”. It appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament.
“As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.”
Meaning
- Prisoner, captive, bondman
How it's translated
- prisoners of 3
- prisoners 2
- prisoners his 2
- the prisoners 1
- prisoner 1
- prisoners your 1
- o prisoners of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 4
- Genesis 2
- Zechariah 2
- Job 1
- Isaiah 1
- Lamentations 1
6 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Zechariah 9:12In contextTurn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare that I will render double unto thee;
- Genesis 39:20And Joseph’s master took him, and put him into the prison, a place where the king’s prisoners were bound: and he was there in the prison.
- Genesis 39:22And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph’s hand all the prisoners that were in the prison; and whatsoever they did there, he was the doer of it.
- Job 3:18There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
- Psalms 68:6God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
- Psalms 69:33For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.
Hebrew dictionary
אָסִיר asir · prisoner
prisoner, captive, bondman
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “prisoner” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PRIS'ONER, noun
One who is confined in a prison by legal arrest or warrant.
- A person under arrest or in custody of the sheriff, whether in prison or not; as a prisoner at the bar of a court.
- A captive; one taken by an enemy in war.
- One whose liberty is restrained, as a bird in a cage.
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.