Strong's #631: 'acar (pronounced aw-sar')
a primitive root; to yoke or hitch; by analogy, to fasten in any sense, to join battle:--bind, fast, gird, harness, hold, keep, make ready, order, prepare, prison(-er), put in bonds, set in array, tie.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
'âsar
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
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 70 times:
Nehemiah 4:18: "For the builders, every one had his sword girded by his side, and so built. And he that sounded"
Job 12:18: "He looseth the bond of kings, and girdeth their loins with a girdle."
Job 36:8: "And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction;"
Job 36:13: "they cry not when he bindeth"
Psalms 105:22: " To bind his princes at his pleasure; and teach his senators wisdom."
Psalms 118:27: "God is the LORD, which hath showed us light: bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns"
Psalms 146:7: "to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners:"
Psalms 149:8: " To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;"
Ecclesiastes 4:14: "For out of prison out of prison he cometh to reign; whereas also"
Song of Solomon 7:5: "of thine head like purple; the king is held in the galleries."
Isaiah 22:3: "thy rulers are fled together, they are bound by the archers: all that are found"
Isaiah 22:3: "by the archers: all that are found in thee are bound together, from far."
Isaiah 49:9: "That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Show yourselves. They shall feed in"
Isaiah 61:1: "to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;"
Jeremiah 39:7: "Moreover he put out Zedekiah's eyes, and bound him with chains, to carry him to Babylon."
Jeremiah 40:1: "had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him being bound in chains among all"
Jeremiah 46:4: " Harness the horses; and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; furbish the spears,"
Jeremiah 52:11: "of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put"
Ezekiel 3:25: "they shall put bands upon thee, and shall bind thee with them, and thou shalt not go out"
Hosea 10:10: "them; and the people shall be gathered against them, when they shall bind themselves in their two furrows."
