27 occurrences in 13 translations

'Prisoners' in the Bible

And they will be put to death with the sword, and will be taken as prisoners into all the nations; and Jerusalem will be crushed under the feet of the Gentiles, till the times of the Gentiles are complete.

But after ordering them to step out of the Council [chamber], they began to confer among themselves,

Then the captain went with the officers and brought them back, without hurting them (because they were afraid of the people, worried that they might be stoned).

and requested letters from him to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any men or women who belonged to the Way, he might bring them as prisoners to Jerusalem.

And here he has authority from the chief priests to make prisoners all who give worship to your name.

But all who heard him were astounded and said, “Isn’t this the man who, in Jerusalem, was destroying those who called on this name and then came here for the purpose of taking them as prisoners to the chief priests?”

That very night, before Herod was going to bring him out, Peter, bound with two chains, was sleeping between two soldiers, and guards in front of the door were watching the prisoners.

Suddenly a great earthquake occurred, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken. Immediately all the doors flew open, and the bonds of all the prisoners came loose.

And the keeper of the prison awaking out of his sleep, and seeing the prison doors open, he drew out his sword, and would have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had been fled.

The officers reported this message to the chief magistrates, and when they heard that the prisoners were Romans, they were frightened;

as both the high priest and the whole council of elders can testify about me. After I received letters from them to the brothers, I traveled to Damascus to bring those who were prisoners there to be punished in Jerusalem.

And when it was determined that we should sail into Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners unto one named Julius, a centurion of Augustus' band.

And the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape.

And when we came to Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the captain of the guard: but Paul was suffered to dwell by himself with a soldier that kept him.

You put up with a man if he makes servants of you, if he makes profit out of you, if he makes you prisoners, if he puts himself in a high place, if he gives you blows on the face.

Now before faith came we were held in custody under the law, being kept as prisoners until the coming faith would be revealed.

For those who go after loose women, for those with unnatural desires, for those who take men prisoners, who make false statements and false oaths, and those who do any other things against the right teaching,

For these are they who go secretly into houses, making prisoners of foolish women, weighted down with sin, turned from the way by their evil desires,

It said to the sixth angel--the angel who had the trumpet, "Set at liberty the four angels who are prisoners near the great river Euphrates."

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
אסוּר 
'ecuwr 
Usage: 3

אסיר 
'aciyr 
Usage: 14

אסּיר 
'acciyr 
Usage: 3

אסר 
'acar 
Usage: 70

בּית 
Bayith 
Usage: 2053

כּלא 
Kele' 
Usage: 10

מהפּכת 
Mahpeketh 
Usage: 4

מטּרה מטּרא 
Mattara' 
Usage: 16

מסגּר 
Macger 
Usage: 7

משׁמר 
Mishmar 
Usage: 22

עצר 
`otser 
Usage: 3

פּקח־קוח 
P@qach-qowach 
opening of the prison
Usage: 1

שׁבי 
Sh@biy 
Usage: 50

δέσμιος 
Desmios 
prisoner , be in bonds , in bonds
Usage: 16

δεσμοφύλαξ 
Desmophulax 
keeper of the prison , jailor
Usage: 3

δεσμωτήριον 
Desmoterion 
Usage: 4

δεσμώτης 
Desmotes 
Usage: 2

οἴκημα 
Oikema 
Usage: 1

τήρησις 
Teresis 
Usage: 3

φυλακή 
Phulake 
Usage: 35

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