Injunction
אֱסָרStrong’s H0633esar (e-sar)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Esar is the Aramaic word usually translated “prohibition”, “prohibition the” and “prohibition of”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, the counsellors, and the captains, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.”
Meaning
- Interdict, decree, decree of restriction
How it's translated
- a prohibition 2
- prohibition the 2
- and prohibition the 1
- prohibition of 1
- prohibition 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 6
1 book in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 6:8In contextNow, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.
- Daniel 6:9In contextWherefore king Darius signed the writing and the decree.
- Daniel 6:12In contextThen they came near, and spake before the king concerning the king’s decree; Hast thou not signed a decree, that every man that shall ask a petition of any God or man within thirty days, save of thee, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions? The king answered and said, The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.
- Daniel 6:13In contextThen answered they and said before the king, That Daniel, which is of the children of the captivity of Judah, regardeth not thee, O king, nor the decree that thou hast signed, but maketh his petition three times a day.
- Daniel 6:15In contextThen these men assembled unto the king, and said unto the king, Know, O king, that the law of the Medes and Persians is, That no decree nor statute which the king establisheth may be changed.
Aramaic dictionary
אֱסָר esar · injunction
interdict, decree, decree of restriction Aramaic of e.sar (אִסָּר "injunction" H0632)
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.