Injunction
אִסָּרStrong’s H0632esar (e-sar)
Appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Esar is the Hebrew word usually translated “obligation”, “obligations her” and “obligation her”. It appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament.
“If a man vow a vow unto the LORD, or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond; he shall not break his word, he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth.”
Meaning
- Bond, binding obligation, obligation
How it's translated
- an obligation 3
- obligation 3
- and obligations her 2
- and obligation her 1
- and to obligation of 1
- obligations her 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 10
1 book in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Numbers 30:3If a woman also vow a vow unto the LORD, and bind herself by a bond, being in her father’s house in her youth;
- Numbers 30:4And her father hear her vow, and her bond wherewith she hath bound her soul, and her father shall hold his peace at her: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand.
- Numbers 30:5But if her father disallow her in the day that he heareth; not any of her vows, or of her bonds wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall stand: and the LORD shall forgive her, because her father disallowed her.
- Numbers 30:7And her husband heard it, and held his peace at her in the day that he heard it: then her vows shall stand, and her bonds wherewith she bound her soul shall stand.
- Numbers 30:10And if she vowed in her husband’s house, or bound her soul by a bond with an oath;
- Numbers 30:11And her husband heard it, and held his peace at her, and disallowed her not: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she bound her soul shall stand.
Hebrew dictionary
אִסָּר esar · injunction
bond, binding obligation, obligation Aramaic equivalent: e.sar (אֱסָר "injunction" H0633)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “injunction” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
INJUNC'TION, noun
[Latin injunctio, from injungo, to enjoin; in and jungo, to join.]
- A command; order; precept; the direction of a superior vested with authority.
- Urgent advice or exhortation of persons not vested with absolute authority to command.
- In law, a writ or order of the court of chancery, directed to an inferior court, or to parties and their counsel, directing them to stay proceedings, or to do some act, as to put the plaintiff in possession for want of the defendant's appearance, to stay waste or other injury, etc.
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.