δέσμιος
bound
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Every verse where G1198 appears in the Book of 2 Timothy — 1 distinct verse. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
2 Timothy
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
δεσμιος (désmios) is a Greek adjective most often rendered “bound.” Debuting at Matthew 27:15, it then recurs through the corpus. The Greek New Testament uses it across 16 verses — uncommon. Acts dominates its distribution — 6 of 16 verses. Related forms include δεσμον, δεσμεω and δεσμοφυλαξ. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1198 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 16
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 16 distinct verses.
- 7 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 7 of 27 New Testament books.
- #726
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 726 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 16 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 16 distinct verses.
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 6 verses · 38%
- Pauline corpus 5 verses · 31%
- Gospels 3 verses · 19%
- Hebrews 2 verses · 13%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Prisoner 11×, Prisoners 3×
- American Standard Version: Prisoner 11×, Prisoners 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Prisoner 10×, Prison 3×, Prisoners 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Prisoner 12×, Prisoners 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1198 across 16 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1198 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1198 across 16 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1198 across 17 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- bound, in bonds, a captive, a prisoner
Word origin
Derived from δεσμον (desmón) (G1199) — bond.
From G1199 ; a captive (as bound ): - in bonds prisoner.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 6 distinct written forms G1198 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| δέσμιος désmios | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Acts 23:18 | 7 |
| δέσμιον désmion | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 27:15 | 5 |
| δέσμιοι désmioi | Noun, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Acts 16:25 | 1 |
| δεσμίοις desmíois | Noun, Dative, Plural, Masculine | Hebrews 10:34 | 1 |
| δεσμίους desmíous | Noun, Accusative, Plural, Masculine | Acts 16:27 | 1 |
| δεσμίων desmíōn | Noun, Genitive, Plural, Masculine | Hebrews 13:3 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1198, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- δεσμεω desméō G1196 to bind
- δεσμοφυλαξ desmophýlax G1200 jailer
- δεσμωτηριον desmōtḗrion G1201 prison
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word δεσμιος appears 4 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 4 verses in 3 books.
- 4
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 4
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Ecclesiastes 4:14 δέσμιος
- Lamentations 3:34 δέσμιος
- Zechariah 9:11 δέσμιος
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1198) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Ecclesiastes 4:14 δέσμιος For out of prison he came forth to be king; yes, even in his kingdom he was born poor.
- Lamentations 3:34 δέσμιος To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,
- Zechariah 9:11 δέσμιος As for you also, Because of the blood of your covenant, I have set free your prisoners from the pit in which is no water.
- Zechariah 9:12 δέσμιος Turn to the stronghold, you prisoners of hope! Even today I declare that I will restore double to you.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1198) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
