48 occurrences in 12 translations

'Bonds' in the Bible

But if her father disallow her in the day that he heareth; not any of her vows, or of her bonds wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall stand: and the LORD shall forgive her, because her father disallowed her.

Verse ConceptsGod Will Forgive

And her husband heard it, and held his peace at her in the day that he heard it: then her vows shall stand, and her bonds wherewith she bound her soul shall stand.

But if her husband altogether hold his peace at her from day to day; then he establisheth all her vows, or all her bonds, which are upon her: he confirmeth them, because he held his peace at her in the day that he heard them.

When he came to Lehi, the Philistines came to meet him shouting. The Spirit of the Lord took control of him, and the ropes that were on his arms became like burnt flax and his bonds fell off his wrists.

Verse ConceptsFlaxArmsPower, HumanShoutingTranceGroups Shouting

And Pharaoh-necoh put him in bonds at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land to a tribute of a hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.

Verse ConceptsCoinageChainsTaxationFine As Penalty

and any who doth not do the law of thy God, and the law of the king, speedily is judgment done upon him, whether to death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of riches, and to bonds.'

Verse ConceptsCriminalsCivil authoritiesBanishmentGovernmentCivic DutiesImprisonmentsLoyaltyPrisonersPunishment, Legal Aspects OfMagistratesCitizenshipConfiscationAnarchyJudicial PunishmentBreaking God's Law

He releases the bonds put on by kingsand fastens a belt around their waists.

Verse ConceptsGod Freeing Captives

"Who sets the wild donkey free? Who loosens the bonds of the wild donkey

Verse ConceptsRopesWild DonkeysGod Freeing Captives

Let us break their bonds asunder, and cast away their cords from us!

Verse ConceptsChainsEvil And FreedomBreaking Chains

O LORD, truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds.

Verse ConceptsChainsServants Of The LordGod Freeing Captives

I myself found [that] more bitter than death [is] the woman who [is] a trap, whose heart [is] a snare, and whose hands [are] bonds. The one who pleases God escapes from her, but the sinner is caught by her.

Verse ConceptsSexual ChastityWomen Doing WrongMan TrappingGodly WomanBitternessBreaking Chainsnagging

Now therefore be ye not scorners, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard from the Lord Jehovah of hosts a consumption, and one determined, upon the whole land.

Verse ConceptsChainsMockeryRejection Of God, Results OfRidicule, Objects OfDestructionTying Upmockers

Stand up, shake the dust off yourself!Take your seat, Jerusalem.Remove the bonds from your neck,captive Daughter Zion.”

Verse ConceptsdaughtersNecksChainsGet Up!Beauty And Self WorthBreaking Chainsdiscriminationdustfreejerusalemziondignity

Isn't this the fast that I have been choosing: to loose the bonds of injustice, and to untie the cords of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke?

Verse ConceptsYokesHow To FastPeople Releasing OthersInjusticeFastingFasting And PrayerBreaking Chainsliberation

"For long ago I broke your yoke and tore off your bonds, But you said, "I won't serve you!' Instead, on every high hill and under every green tree, you bend down to commit fornication.

Verse ConceptsSpiritual HarlotryServanthood, And Worship Of GodShrinesYokesNot Serving GodSacrificing On The High PlacesWorship At TreesBreaking Chains

I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of the LORD, and the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.

Verse ConceptsYokesEscaping From GodBreaking Chains

Thus saith the LORD to me; Make thee bonds and yokes, and put them upon thy neck,

Verse ConceptsYokes

For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him:

Verse ConceptsForeignersYokesGod Freeing CaptivesBreaking Chains

And as you saw the iron mixed with common clay, so they will combine with one another in the seed of men; but they will not merge [for such diverse things or ideologies cannot unite], even as iron does not mix with clay.

Verse ConceptsIron ObjectsMixing PeopleNot MixingInterracial Marriageinterracial

I led them with cords of a man, with bonds of love,And I became to them as one who lifts the yoke from their jaws;And I bent down and fed them.

Verse ConceptsGod's attitude towards peopleKindnessCordsRopesYokesDivine AttractionGod Going DownGod Feeds All The EarthGod Freeing CaptivesGod Has GuidedLike MenLove

For now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds in sunder.

Verse ConceptsYokesGod Freeing CaptivesBreaking Chains

For he commanded the unclean spirit to come forth from the man, for many times it had caught him, and he was being bound with chains and fetters -- guarded, and breaking asunder the bonds he was driven by the demons to the deserts.

Verse ConceptsChainsDemons, Nature OfRestlessnessSatan, Character OfIron ChainsLiving In The WildernessJesus Casting Out DemonsBreaking Chains

And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison shook, and all the doors were immediately opened, and the bonds of all loosed.

Verse ConceptsFoundationsearthquakesChainsPrisonsSudden EventsIron ChainsFoundations Of BuildingsGod ShakingGod Freeing CaptivesBreaking Chainsjailevangelising

As also the high priest doth bear me witness, and all the estate of the elders: from whom also I received letters unto the brethren, and journeyed to Damascus to bring them also that were there unto Jerusalem in bonds to be punished.

Verse ConceptsLettersSanhedrin

and on the morrow, intending to know the certainty wherefore he is accused by the Jews, he did loose him from the bonds, and commanded the chief priests and all their sanhedrim to come, and having brought down Paul, he set him before them.

Verse ConceptsChief priestsAccusations, Against Early Christians

Whom I perceived to be accused of questions of their law, but to have nothing laid to his charge worthy of death or of bonds.

Verse ConceptsPrisonersAccusations, Against Early ChristiansPeople Accusing PeopleTaking The Law To Heart

But when two years were fulfilled, Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus; and desiring to gain favor with the Jews, Felix left Paul in bonds.

Verse ConceptsMen PleasersBad Decision Making ExamplesPopularityPleasing MenPopularity Sought

And when they had been there many days, Festus declared Paul's cause unto the king, saying, There is a certain man left in bonds by Felix:

And Paul said, I would to God, that not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, were both almost, and altogether such as I am, except these bonds.

Verse ConceptsChainsListeningIron ChainsBecoming Like People

And when they were gone aside, they talked between themselves, saying, This man doeth nothing worthy of death or of bonds.

So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace, and in all other places;

Verse ConceptsGuards

but those out of contention, announce the Christ, not purely, supposing to arouse tribulation for my bonds.

Verse ConceptsAmbition, negative aspects ofSelf IndulgenceSelfishnessPreaching ChristTroubling IndividualsCompetitionmotives

The salutation by the hand of me Paul. Remember my bonds. Grace be with you. Amen.

Verse ConceptsThe AccursedWritingSalutationsWriting The New Testament

Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound.

Verse ConceptsChainsPersecution Of The Apostle PaulSufferingThe Word Of GodHardshipjail

I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds:

Verse ConceptsChildren In The FaithUseful People

Whom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospel:

Verse ConceptsSuffering For The GospelServing Individuals

messengers also, those who did not keep their own principality, but did leave their proper dwelling, to a judgment of a great day, in bonds everlasting, under darkness He hath kept,

Verse ConceptsDemons, Punishment OfThe Judgement Is CalledEternal JudgmentEternal JudgementInhabitationEvil AngelsOuter DarknessTying UpAssignmentRebellion of Satan and AngelsHaving A Good DayJudgement Day

Bible Theasaurus

Adhere (43 instances)
Adherence (4 instances)
Alliance (19 instances)
Attach (19 instances)
Attachment (1 instance)
Bail (1 instance)
Bonds (48 instances)
Hamper (2 instances)
Stick (65 instances)

Reverse Interlinear

Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
δουλόω 
Douloo 
Usage: 8

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

אמה 
'amah 
Usage: 56

אסּר אסר 
'ecar 
Usage: 11

כּבשׁ 
Kabash 
Usage: 14

מסרה מוסרה מוסר 
Mowcer 
Usage: 11

מוּסר 
Muwcar 
Usage: 50

מסרת 
Macoreth 
Usage: 1

עבד 
`ebed 
Usage: 800

עבודה עבדה 
`abodah 
Usage: 146

עבדוּת 
`abduwth 
Usage: 3

שׁפחה 
Shiphchah 
Usage: 63

ἅλυσις 
Halusis 
Usage: 11

δεσμόν δεσμός 
Desmon 
Usage: 19

δέω 
Deo 
bind , tie , knit , be in bonds , wind
Usage: 32

δουλεία 
Douleia 
Usage: 5

δουλεύω 
Douleuo 
serve , be in bondage , do service
Usage: 20

δοῦλος 
Doulos 
Usage: 65

καταδουλόω 
Katadouloo 
Usage: 2

παιδίσκη 
Paidiske 
Usage: 12

σύνδεσμος 
sundesmos 
Usage: 4

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