Prisoner
אַסִּירStrong’s H0616assir (as-sir)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Assir is the Hebrew word usually translated “prisoner”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the sons of Jeconiah; Assir, Salathiel his son,”
Meaning
- Prisoners (collective)
- (CLBL) prisoner, captive
How it's translated
- prisoner 4
- a prisoner 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 3
- 1 Chronicles 1
- Psalms 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Psalms 79:11Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die;
- Isaiah 10:4Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
- Isaiah 24:22And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
- Isaiah 42:7To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.
Hebrew dictionary
אַסִּיר assir · prisoner
1) prisoners (collective) 2) (CLBL) prisoner, captive
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.