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title: אֵסוּר — band · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אֵסוּר (612), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: band. BDB 1906: n.m. band, bond. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אֵסוּר

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«אֵסוּר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **band** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 3 times · **Key:** 612 · **BDB:** אֵסוּר

### Glosses

\[are\].fetters (1); fetter\[s\] (1); fetters (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

band [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/612/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. band, bond [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/612/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ju 15:14 band, bond (Aramaic אֱסוּר, ܐܰܣܘܽܪܳܐ; on the form v. Ges§ 84 a 12. R.) אֲסוּרָיו, of Samson Ju 15:14; אֲסוּרִים Ec 7:26 of hands of evil woman; בֵּית הָאֵסוּר = prison Je 37:15.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אֵסוּר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/612/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Jeremiah 37:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.37.15/)

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וַיִּקְצְפ֧וּ הַשָּׂרִ֛ים עַֽל־יִרְמְיָ֖הוּ וְהִכּ֣וּ אֹת֑וֹ וְנָתְנ֨וּ אוֹת֜וֹ בֵּ֣ית הָאֵס֗וּר בֵּ֚ית יְהוֹנָתָ֣ן הַסֹּפֵ֔ר כִּֽי־אֹת֥וֹ עָשׂ֖וּ לְבֵ֥ית הַכֶּֽלֶא׃

*Word for word:* and they.were.angry the officials towards Jeremiah and they.struck him and they.put him the.house of.(the) fetter\[s\] the.house of.Jonathan the scribe (dm) it they.had.made into.(the) house of.(the) imprisonment

*JPS 1917:* And the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe; for they had made that the prison.

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[Ecclesiastes 7:26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.7.26/)

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וּמוֹצֶ֨א אֲנִ֜י מַ֣ר מִמָּ֗וֶת אֶת־הָֽאִשָּׁה֙ אֲשֶׁר־הִ֨יא מְצוֹדִ֧ים וַחֲרָמִ֛ים לִבָּ֖הּ אֲסוּרִ֣ים יָדֶ֑יהָ ט֞וֹב לִפְנֵ֤י הָאֱלֹהִים֙ יִמָּלֵ֣ט מִמֶּ֔נָּה וְחוֹטֵ֖א יִלָּ֥כֶד בָּֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* and.\[was\] finding I bitter more than.death (et) the woman who she \[is\].snares and.\[is\] nets heart her \[are\].fetters hands her a.\[person\].good before (the) God he.escapes from her and a.sinner he.is.captured by her

*JPS 1917:* and I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands; whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.

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