8 occurrences

'Prisoners' in the Bible

And the king of Assyria, in answer to his request, went up against Damascus and took it, and took its people away as prisoners to Kir, and put Rezin to death.

Verse ConceptsExiled ForeignersKilling KingsCapturing Cities

So they said to the king of Assyria, The nations whom you have taken as prisoners and put in the towns of Samaria, have no knowledge of the way of the god of the land: so he has sent lions among them, causing their death, because they have no knowledge of his way.

Verse ConceptsRejection Of God

They gave worship to the Lord, but they gave honour to their gods like the nations did from whom they had been taken as prisoners.

Verse ConceptsFalse WorshipLoyaltyParticipation, In SinServanthood, And Worship Of Goddouble mindednessServing One's Own Gods

And the king of Assyria took Israel away as prisoners into Assyria, placing them in Halah and in Habor on the river Gozan, and in the towns of the Medes;

Verse ConceptsRivers And StreamsExile Of Israel To Assyria

And he took away all the people of Jerusalem and all the chiefs and all the men of war, ten thousand prisoners; and all the expert workmen and the metal-workers; only the poorest sort of the people of the land were not taken away.

Verse ConceptsBlacksmithsSmall RemnantsTens Of ThousandsExile Of Judah To Babylon

He took Jehoiachin a prisoner to Babylon, with his mother and his wives and his unsexed servants and the great men of the land; he took them all as prisoners from Jerusalem to Babylon.

Verse ConceptsPolygamyKings Exiled

And all the men of war, seven thousand of them, and a thousand expert workmen and metal-workers, all of them strong and able to take up arms, the king of Babylon took away as prisoners into Babylon.

Verse ConceptsBabylon, Israel Exiled ToCarpentersSeven Thousand

And the rest of the people who were still in the town, and all those who had given themselves up to the king of Babylon, and all the rest of the workmen, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, took away as prisoners;

Verse ConceptsGuardsRemnantExile Of Judah To Babylon

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Definition
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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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