101 occurrences

'Bound' in the Bible

And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.

Verse ConceptsAltarsAbrahamBindingPutting In OrderBuilding AltarsFirewoodTying Up

And it came to pass, when she travailed, that the one put out his hand: and the midwife took and bound upon his hand a scarlet thread, saying, This came out first.

Verse ConceptsCrimsonBeing FirstMidwifeStretching OutFirstborn SonsCordsRed Cordsstories

And Joseph's master took him, and put him into the prison, a place where the king's prisoners were bound: and he was there in the prison.

Verse ConceptsImprisonmentsEmployers, Bad ExamplesPrisonsjail

And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.

Verse ConceptsImprisonmentsPrisonersPrisons

And they dreamed a dream both of them, each man his dream in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, which were bound in the prison.

Verse ConceptsVisions At Night

If ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your prison: go ye, carry corn for the famine of your houses:

Verse ConceptsImprisonmentsPeople Providing Food

And he turned himself about from them, and wept; and returned to them again, and communed with them, and took from them Simeon, and bound him before their eyes.

Verse ConceptsSuffering, Emotional Aspects OfUnhappinessTying Up

Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad be not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad's life;

Verse ConceptsNowhere To Be FoundThose Who Loved

The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.

Verse ConceptsHeadsHillsPrincesEternal WorldBlessed By God

And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneadingtroughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.

Verse ConceptsDoughShouldersJoining ThingsKneading DoughPots For Cooking And Eating

And he put upon him the coat, and girded him with the girdle, and clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod upon him, and he girded him with the curious girdle of the ephod, and bound it unto him therewith.

Verse ConceptsephodsRobes

And every open vessel, which hath no covering bound upon it, is unclean.

Verse ConceptsOpening ContainersUnclean Things

And her father hear her vow, and her bond wherewith she hath bound her soul, and her father shall hold his peace at her: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand.

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 if she had at all an husband, when she vowed, or uttered ought out of her lips, wherewith she bound her soul;

Verse ConceptsLipsimpulsiveness

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 disallowed her on the day that he heard it; then he shall make her vow which she vowed, and that which she uttered with her lips, wherewith she bound her soul, of none effect: and the LORD shall forgive her.

Verse ConceptsGod Will Forgiveimpulsiveness

But every vow of a widow, and of her that is divorced, wherewith they have bound their souls, shall stand against her.

Verse Conceptsdivorce, in OTUnfaithfulness, To PeopleDivorce

And if she vowed in her husband's house, or bound her soul by a bond with an oath;

Verse ConceptsHusband And WifeRelationships With Boyfriend

And her husband heard it, and held his peace at her, and disallowed her not: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she bound her soul shall stand.

And she said, According unto your words, so be it. And she sent them away, and they departed: and she bound the scarlet line in the window.

Verse ConceptsAgreement, Making AgreementsCordsRed Cords

They did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles, old, and rent, and bound up;

Verse ConceptsExamples Of DeceitBottle, UsesenvoyCraftinessWineskins And Vatsimprovement

And they spake unto him, saying, No; but we will bind thee fast, and deliver thee into their hand: but surely we will not kill thee. And they bound him with two new cords, and brought him up from the rock.

Verse ConceptsUnusedTwo Other ThingsTying Up

And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee.

Verse ConceptsTemptressesTying UpWomen's Strength

Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green withs which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.

Verse ConceptsTying Up

And Delilah said unto Samson, Behold, thou hast mocked me, and told me lies: now tell me, I pray thee, wherewith thou mightest be bound.

Verse ConceptsLying, Examples OfIndividuals Who LiedTying Up

Delilah therefore took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And there were liers in wait abiding in the chamber. And he brake them from off his arms like a thread.

Verse ConceptsArmsCordsAmbush

And Delilah said unto Samson, Hitherto thou hast mocked me, and told me lies: tell me wherewith thou mightest be bound. And he said unto her, If thou weavest the seven locks of my head with the web.

Verse ConceptsSpinning And WeavingTying Updreadlocks

But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.

Verse ConceptsdisabilitiesGrindingImprisonmentsKnivesMonotonyMutilationPrisonersTortureCaptivesHeartlessnessHard LaborPrisonsBrassGrinding FoodEyes HarmedBlindingOther BlindingBronze Shackles

Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as out of the middle of a sling.

Verse ConceptsSlingsThrowing Stones

Thy hands were not bound, nor thy feet put into fetters: as a man falleth before wicked men, so fellest thou. And all the people wept again over him.

Verse ConceptsWeepingTying UpBronze Shackles

And Naaman said, Be content, take two talents. And he urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of garments, and laid them upon two of his servants; and they bare them before him.

Verse ConceptsPeople Giving ClothesTwo Other ThingsCarrying Other LoadsTwo Other MenTalents

And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea: for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and brought no present to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year: therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison.

Verse ConceptsArrestingMessengers Sent OutenvoyConspiraciesImprisonmentsPrisonersTaxationPrisons

And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried him to Babylon.

Verse ConceptsdisabilitiesUnkindnessDisfigurementBrassBlindingOther BlindingKilling Sons And DaughtersBronze Shackles

Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.

Verse ConceptsNosesPrisonersBronze Shackles

Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.

Verse ConceptsBronze Shackles

And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction;

That thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, and that thou shouldest know the paths to the house thereof?

Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.

Verse ConceptsBoundariesCovering The EarthDivine Power Over NatureLimits For The Sea

Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if thou canst tell?

Verse ConceptsCreatorCloaksBindingDivine Power Over NatureClimates, TypesCovering The EarthGoing Up To HeavenGod Going DownGod Dispensing WindKnowingWhat Is God's Name?

From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.

Verse ConceptsBruisesAnointing, Medical PurposedoctorsBoils Or UlcersHeadsHealingMedicineOilOintmentHoly Spirit, Types OfDisfigurement Of SinWoundsscars

All thy rulers are fled together, they are bound by the archers: all that are found in thee are bound together, which have fled from far.

Verse ConceptsIsrael Fleeing

Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?

Verse ConceptsBoundariesSandSeaAttitudes Of RespectOceansAweWavesDivine Power Over NatureBarriersEternal WorldLimits For The SeaSand And GravelFear God!

There is none to plead thy cause, that thou mayest be bound up: thou hast no healing medicines.

Verse ConceptsNo HealingSuing GodRecoveryHealth And HealingHope And Healing

Moreover he put out Zedekiah's eyes, and bound him with chains, to carry him to Babylon.

Verse ConceptsBabylon, Israel Exiled ToBlindingOther BlindingBronze Shackles

The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, after that Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him being bound in chains among all that were carried away captive of Jerusalem and Judah, which were carried away captive unto Babylon.

Verse ConceptsExile Of Judah To BabylonPeople Set Free By People

Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.

Verse ConceptsImprisonmentsPrisonersPrisonsLifelongKings ExiledBlindingOther BlindingBronze Shackles

The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, and come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength to fall, the Lord hath delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able to rise up.

Verse ConceptsHeavy Burdens

These were thy merchants in all sorts of things, in blue clothes, and broidered work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords, and made of cedar, among thy merchandise.

Verse ConceptsBeauty, In ArtefactsClothing, Kinds OfMarketsRich ApparelCommerceBlue ClothMulti ColouredColorreinforcement

Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, lo, it shall not be bound up to be healed, to put a roller to bind it, to make it strong to hold the sword.

Verse ConceptsdoctorsHealingBones BrokenNo HealingHealing A Broken Heart

The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them.

Verse Conceptsencouragement, examples ofdiseasesInjuryOppression, Nature OfUnkindnessWeakness, PhysicalBones BrokenWeak AnimalsNot Seeking PeopleReinstating PeopleOppressorsJoining Flesh And BonesLording ItLost PeopleNo HealingWeakness

Then these men were bound in their coats, their hosen, and their hats, and their other garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.

Verse ConceptsRopesDressClothing OthersThrowing PeopleFurnaces

And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.

Verse ConceptsPeople TumblingFurnacesTying Upteenagerjumpingstories

Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonied, and rose up in haste, and spake, and said unto his counsellers, Did not we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered and said unto the king, True, O king.

Verse ConceptsMiracles, Responses ToAmazement, Of God's ActionsAstonishmentThree MenHasty ActionPeople Getting UpTying Up

The wind hath bound her up in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.

Verse ConceptsShameWhirlwindsShame Of Idolatry

The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound: therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.

Verse ConceptsBoundariesLand, As A Divine ResponsibilityProperty, LandResistanceStonesLandmarksGod Will Be Angrywaterfalls

Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me.

Verse ConceptsEvil PlansTrapInfidelity To GodGod Giving StrengthGod Gives Strength

Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.

Verse ConceptsCruelty, examples ofChainsNoblesPeople Cut In PiecesExiled ForeignersStriking To DeathTragedy On The StreetsChildren Suffering

For Herod had laid hold on John, and bound him, and put him in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife.

Verse ConceptsFaultsPrisonersRopesTying UpNamed Wives

And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

Verse ConceptsExcommunicationequipping, physicalKeysKingdom Of HeavenBelonging To HeavenTying Uporganization

Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

Verse ConceptsBelonging To HeavenTying UpEarthmath

And when they had bound him, they led him away, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor.

Verse ConceptsGovernorsHanding Over ChristTying Up

Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him.

Verse ConceptsChainsIron ChainsNo Strength To CopeBreaking Chains

For Herod himself had sent forth and laid hold upon John, and bound him in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife: for he had married her.

Verse ConceptsPrisonersRopesBad Wives ExamplesDispleasureTransferring Wives

And straightway in the morning the chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole council, and bound Jesus, and carried him away, and delivered him to Pilate.

Verse Conceptsenemies, of Jesus Christelders, as community leadersBad Decision Making ExamplesRopesTeachers Of The LawCommitteesHanding Over ChristOpposition To Christ From ScribesThe Chief Priests ConvenedTying Up

And there was one named Barabbas, which lay bound with them that had made insurrection with him, who had committed murder in the insurrection.

Verse ConceptsCriminalsImprisonmentsRebellion, Against Human AuthorityBarabbasJudged As Murderers

(For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For oftentimes it had caught him: and he was kept bound with chains and in fetters; and he brake the bands, and was driven of the devil into the wilderness.)

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

And went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.

Verse ConceptsGesturesInnsAnointing, Medical PurposeAnointing With OilHealingHelpfulnessMedicineOilOintmentHoly Spirit, Types OfAlcohol ConsumptionStaying Temporarily

And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?

Verse ConceptsdaughtersCripplesevil, origins ofPainRescueSatan, Defeat OfSatan, Kingdom OfBindingSatan, Work Of15 To 20 YearsChildren Of AbrahamOn The SabbathJesus Healing On Sabbath

And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go.

Verse ConceptsThe DeadClothembalmingBurials, FeaturesCovering NakednessLinenNapkinsTying Uplazarus

Then the band and the captain and officers of the Jews took Jesus, and bound him,

Verse ConceptsArrestingRopesArresting ChristSoldiers Treatment Of ChristTying Up

Now Annas had sent him bound unto Caiaphas the high priest.

Verse ConceptsTying Up

And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsArrestingequipping, physicalWay, TheTying Updamascus

But all that heard him were amazed, and said; Is not this he that destroyed them which called on this name in Jerusalem, and came hither for that intent, that he might bring them bound unto the chief priests?

Verse ConceptsPrisonersKilling DisciplesCalling In Christ's NameIs It Really?Tying Up

And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the keepers before the door kept the prison.

Verse ConceptsLeisure, And PastimesSleep, PhysicalGod Is ImmanentIron ChainsDuring One NightTwo Other ThingsTwo Other MenSleeping Peacefullytrailsjail

And now, behold, I go bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befall me there:

Verse ConceptsFutureHuman IgnoranceBindingWithheld KnowledgeGuidance Of The Holy SpiritNot Knowing The FutureLed By The Spirit

And when he was come unto us, he took Paul's girdle, and bound his own hands and feet, and said, Thus saith the Holy Ghost, So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that owneth this girdle, and shall deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.

Verse ConceptsBeltsWarning IndividualsSuffering From ForeignersSpeaking By The SpiritTying Up

Then the chief captain came near, and took him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains; and demanded who he was, and what he had done.

Verse Conceptsevangelists, ministry ofChainsIron ChainsInterrogatingWho Is This?What Do You Do?Two Other Things

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 went to Damascus, to bring them which were there bound unto Jerusalem, for to be punished.

Verse ConceptsLettersSanhedrin

And as they bound him with thongs, Paul said unto the centurion that stood by, Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman, and uncondemned?

Verse ConceptsempiresRevenge, And RetaliationRoman CitizensScourgingBreaking Man's LawNo CondemnationTying UpCitizens

Then straightway they departed from him which should have examined him: and the chief captain also was afraid, after he knew that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him.

Verse ConceptsChainsTying UpCitizens

And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.

Verse ConceptsFasting, Nature OfMorningRevenge, Examples OfPlottingVindictivenessAttempting To Kill Specific PeopleVowing To FastPeople Bound By OathsConspiracySwearing

And they came to the chief priests and elders, and said, We have bound ourselves under a great curse, that we will eat nothing until we have slain Paul.

Verse Conceptselders, as community leadersChief priestsTasteAttempting To Kill Specific PeopleVowing To FastPeople Bound By Oaths

But do not thou yield unto them: for there lie in wait for him of them more than forty men, which have bound themselves with an oath, that they will neither eat nor drink till they have killed him: and now are they ready, looking for a promise from thee.

Verse ConceptsPeople WaitingAmbushPreparing For ActionFortiesAttempting To Kill Specific PeopleDo Not Listen!Vowing To FastPeople Bound By Oaths

But after two years Porcius Festus came into Felix' room: and Felix, willing to shew the Jews a pleasure, left Paul bound.

Verse ConceptsMen PleasersBad Decision Making ExamplesPopularityPleasing MenPopularity Sought

For this cause therefore have I called for you, to see you, and to speak with you: because that for the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.

Verse ConceptsChainsHope, As ConfidenceIron ChainsSalvation For IsraelFor The Sake Of God's Peoplevocation

Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

Verse ConceptsAvoid DivorceUnmarriedMarriage KjvBeing Singlespousemarraigematrimony

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

Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.

Verse ConceptsFour AngelsFractions, One SixthSixthEvil AngelsRiver Euphrates

Bible Theasaurus

Adhere (43 instances)
Attach (19 instances)
Bandage (6 instances)
Bandaged (4 instances)
Border (246 instances)
Boundary (104 instances)
Bounds (15 instances)
Confine (14 instances)
Destined (45 instances)
Indentured (3 instances)
Obligate (2 instances)
Oblige (2 instances)
Recoil (2 instances)
Restrict (1 instance)
Reverberate (1 instance)
Stick (65 instances)
Unerring (2 instances)

Reverse Interlinear

Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
ὁροθεσία 
Horothesia 
Usage: 1

ὀφείλω ὀφειλέω 
Opheilo 
ought , owe , be bound , be duty , be a debtor , be guilty , be indebted ,
Usage: 24

περίκειμαι 
Perikeimai 
be hanged , be bound with , be compassed with , be compassed about with Trans
Usage: 2

συνδέω 
sundeo 
bound with
Usage: 1

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