δεσμός
bond, chain
Where this word appears
Every passage where δεσμός appears in the Greek Septuagint — 33 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 42:27 δεσμός And one having opened his sack to give his asses fodder, at the place where they rested, saw also his bundle of money, for it was on the mouth of his sack.
- Genesis 42:35 δεσμός And it came to pass as they were emptying their sacks, there was each man's bundle of money in his sack; and they and their father saw their bundles of money, and they were afraid.
- Genesis 42:35 δεσμός And it came to pass as they were emptying their sacks, there was each man's bundle of money in his sack; and they and their father saw their bundles of money, and they were afraid.
- Leviticus 26:13 δεσμός I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, where you⌃ were slaves; and I broke the band of your yoke, and brought you forth openly.
- Numbers 19:15 δεσμός And every open vessel which has not a covering bound upon it, shall be unclean.
- Numbers 30:14 δεσμός Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict her soul, her husband shall confirm it to her, or her husband shall cancel it.
- Judges 15:13 δεσμός And they spoke to him, saying, Nay, but we will only bind you fast, and deliver you into their hand, and will by no means kill you: and they bound him with two new ropes, and brought him from that rock.
- Judges 15:14 δεσμός And they came to Lechi: and the Philistines shouted, and ran to meet him: and the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him, and the ropes that were upon his arms became as tow which is burnt with fire; and his bonds were consumed from off his hands.
- 1 Samuel 25:29 δεσμός And if a man shall rise up persecuting you and seeking your life, yet shall the life of my lord be bound up in the bundle of life with the Lord God, and you shall whirl the life of your enemies as in the midst of a sling.
- 2 Chronicles 33:11 δεσμός And the Lord brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, and they took Manasses in bonds, and bound him in fetters, and brought him to Babylon.
- Ezra 7:26 δεσμός And whoever shall not do the law of God, and the law of the king readily, judgment shall be taken upon him, whether for death or for chastisement, or for a fine of his property, or casting into prison.
- Job 38:31 δεσμός And do you understand the band of Pleias, and have you opened the barrier of Orion?
- Job 39:5 δεσμός And who is he that sent forth the wild ass free? and who loosed his bands?
- Psalms 2:3 δεσμός saying, Let us break through their bonds, and cast away their yoke from us.
- Psalms 106:14 δεσμός And he brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke their bonds asunder.
- Psalms 115:7 δεσμός Return to your rest, O my soul; for the Lord has dealt bountifully with you.
- Proverbs 7:22 δεσμός And he followed her, being gently led on, and that as an ox is led to the slaughter, and as a dog to bonds, or as a hart shot in the liver with an arrow:
- Ecclesiastes 7:26 δεσμός I and my heart went round about to know, and to examine, and to seek wisdom, and the account of things, and to know the folly and trouble and madness of the ungodly man.
- Isaiah 28:22 δεσμός Therefore do not you⌃ rejoice, neither let your bands be made strong; for I have heard of works finished and cut short by the Lord of hosts, which he will execute upon all the earth.
- Isaiah 42:7 δεσμός to open the eyes of the blind, to bring the bound and them that sit in darkness out of bonds and the prison-house.
- Isaiah 49:9 δεσμός saying to them that are in bonds, Go forth; and bidding them that are in darkness show themselves. They shall be fed in all the ways, and in all the paths shall be their pasture.
- Isaiah 52:2 δεσμός Shake off the dust and arise; sit down, Jerusalem: put off the band of your neck, captive daughter of Sion.
- Jeremiah 2:20 δεσμός For of old you have broken your yoke, and plucked asunder your bands; and you have said, I will not serve you, but will go upon every high hill, and under every shady tree, there will I indulge in my fornication.
- Jeremiah 5:5 δεσμός I will go to the rich men, and will speak to them; for they have known the way of the Lord, and the judgment of God: but, behold, with one consent they have broken the yoke, they have burst the bonds.
- Jeremiah 34:2 δεσμός
- Jeremiah 37:8 δεσμός In that day, said the Lord, I will break the yoke off their neck, and will burst their bonds, and they shall no longer serve strangers:
- Ezekiel 3:25 δεσμός And you, son of man, behold, bonds are prepared for you, and they shall bind you with them, and you shall not come forth of the midst of them.
- Ezekiel 4:8 δεσμός And, behold, I have prepared bonds for you, land you may not turn from your one side to the other, until the days of your siege shall be accomplished.
- Hosea 11:4 δεσμός When men were destroyed, I drew them with the bands of my love: and I will be to them as a man striking another on his cheek: and I will have respect to him, I will prevail with him.
- Nahum 1:13 δεσμός And now will I break his rod from off you, and will burst your bonds.
- Habakkuk 3:13 δεσμός You went forth for the salvation of your people, to save your anointed: you shall bring death on the heads of transgressors; you have brought bands upon their neck. Pause.
- Haggai 1:6 δεσμός You⌃ have sown much, but brought in little; you⌃ have eaten, and are not satisfied; you⌃ have drunk, and are not satisfied with drink, you⌃ have clothed yourselves, and have not become warm thereby: and he that earns wages has gathered them into a bag full of holes.
- Malachi 3:20 δεσμός
About this word
About this word
δεσμός (desmós), “bond, chain,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 33 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →