asar (to bind) · Rightly

Meaning

To tie, bind, imprison(Qal) · (Niphal) to be imprisoned, bound · (Pual) to be taken prisoner

How it's translated

she has bound 8
to bind 4
bound 4
and he bound him 4
imprisoned 3
and he bound 3
and they bound him 3
will you be bound 3

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

Where it's used most

Judges 13
Numbers 10
Genesis 8
2 Kings 5
Psalms 4
Jeremiah 4

18 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture

Genesis 40:3And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.
Genesis 40:5And they dreamed a dream both of them, each man his dream in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, which were bound in the prison.
Genesis 42:16Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be kept in prison, that your words may be proved, whether there be any truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye are spies.
Genesis 42:19If ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your prison: go ye, carry corn for the famine of your houses:
Genesis 42:24And he turned himself about from them, and wept; and returned to them again, and communed with them, and took from them Simeon, and bound him before their eyes.
Genesis 46:29And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen, and presented himself unto him; and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.

All 64 verses, by book

Genesis 8: 39:20 40:3 40:5 42:16 42:19 42:24 46:29 49:11
Exodus 1: 14:6
Numbers 10: 30:2 30:3 30:4 30:5 30:6 30:7 30:8 30:9 30:10 30:11
Judges 13: 15:10 15:12 15:13 16:5 16:6 16:7 16:8 16:10 16:11 16:12 16:13 16:21 16:25
1 Samuel 2: 6:7 6:10
2 Samuel 1: 3:34
1 Kings 2: 18:44 20:14
2 Kings 5: 7:10 9:21 17:4 23:33 25:7
2 Chronicles 3: 13:3 33:11 36:6
Nehemiah 1: 4:18
Job 3: 12:18 36:8 36:13
Psalms 4: 105:22 118:27 146:7 149:8
Ecclesiastes 1: 4:14
Song of Solomon 1: 7:5
Isaiah 3: 22:3 49:9 61:1
Jeremiah 4: 39:7 40:1 46:4 52:11
Ezekiel 1: 3:25
Hosea 1: 10:10

Hebrew dictionary

אָסַר asar · to bind

1) to tie, bind, imprison 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to tie, bind 1a2) to tie, harness 1a3) to bind (with cords) 1a4) to gird (rare and late) 1a5) to begin the battle, make the attack 1a6) of obligation of oath (figurative) 1b) (Niphal) to be imprisoned, bound 1c) (Pual) to be taken prisoner

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

BIND, verb transitive

To tie together, or confine with a cord, or any thing that is flexible; to fasten as with a band, fillet or ligature.
To gird, inwrap or involve; to confine by a wrapper, cover or bandage; sometimes with up; as, to bind up a wound.
To confine or restrain, as with a chain, fetters or cord; as, bind him hand and foot.
To restrain in any manner.“He bindeth the floods from overflowing” Job 28:11

All definitions and other forms of “bind”

To oblige by a promise, vow, stipulation, covenant, law, duty or any other moral tie; to engage.“If a man shall swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond” Numbers 30:2
To confirm or ratify.“Whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth, shall be bound in heaven” Matthew 16:19
To distress, trouble, or confine by infirmity.“Whom Satan hath bound these eighteen years” Luke 13:16
To constrain by a powerful influence or persuasion.“I go bound in the spirit to Jerusalem” Acts 20:22
To restrain the natural discharges of the bowels; to make costive; as, certain kinds of food bind the body or bowels.
To form a border; to fasten with a band, ribin, or any thing that strengthens the edges; as, to bind a garment or carpet.
To cover with leather or anything firm; to sew together and cover; as, to bind a book.
To cover or secure by a band; as, to bind a wheel with tire.
To oblige to serve, by contract; as, to bind an apprentice; often with out; as, to bind out a servant.
To make hard or firm; as, certain substances bind the earth.

BIND, verb intransitive

To contract; to grow hard or stiff; as, clay binds by heat.

To grow or become costive.
To be obligatory.

BIND, noun

A stalk of hops, so called from its winding round a pole or tree, or being bound to it.

A bind of eels, is a quantity consisting of 10 strikes, each containing 25 eels, or 250 in the whole.
Among miners, indurated clay, when much mixed with the oxyd of iron.

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