אָסַר
a.sar
1. to tie, bind, imprison
a. (Qal)
1. to tie, bind
2. to tie, harness
3. to bind (with cords)
4. to gird (rare and late)
5. to begin the battle, make the attack
6. of obligation of oath (figurative)
b. (Niphal) to be imprisoned, bound
c. (Pual) to be taken prisoner
Lexicon: STEPBible Tyndale House Brief Lexicons (TBESH / TBESG) (CC BY 4.0)
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Concordance 63 verses
- Psalms 146:7 אֲסוּרִֽים׃
He executes justice for the oppressed and gives food to the hungry. The LORD sets the prisoners free,
- Psalms 149:8 לֶאְסֹ֣ר
to bind their kings with chains and their nobles with shackles of iron,
- Ecclesiastes 4:14 הָסוּרִ֖ים
For the youth has come from the prison to the kingship, though he was born poor in his own kingdom.
- Song of Solomon 7:5 אָס֥וּר
Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel, the hair of your head like purple threads; the king is captured in your tresses.
- Isaiah 22:3 אֻסָּ֑רוּאֻסְּר֣וּ
All your rulers have fled together, captured without a bow. All your fugitives were captured together, having fled to a distant place.
- Isaiah 49:9 לַֽאֲסוּרִים֙
to say to the prisoners, ‘Come out,’ and to those in darkness, ‘Show yourselves.’ They will feed along the pathways, and find pasture on every barren hill.
- Isaiah 61:1 וְלַאֲסוּרִ֖ים
The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners,
- Jeremiah 39:7 וַיַּאַסְרֵ֙הוּ֙
Then he put out Zedekiah’s eyes and bound him with bronze chains to take him to Babylon.
- Jeremiah 40:1 אָס֤וּר
This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD after Nebuzaradan captain of the guard had released him at Ramah, having found him bound in chains among all the captives of Jerusalem and Judah who were being exiled to Babylon.
- Jeremiah 46:4 אִסְר֣וּ
Harness the horses; mount the steeds; take your positions with helmets on! Polish your spears; put on armor!
- Jeremiah 52:11 וַיַּאַסְרֵ֣הוּ
Then he put out Zedekiah’s eyes, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon, where he kept him in custody until his dying day.
- Ezekiel 3:25 וַאֲסָר֖וּךָ
And you, son of man, they will tie with ropes, and you will be bound so that you cannot go out among the people.
- Hosea 10:10 בְּאָסְרָ֖ם
I will chasten them when I please; nations will be gathered against them to put them in bondage for their double transgression.
