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אַסִּיר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H616

prisoners — used 4 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

Meaning

OpenScriptures lexical index

prisoners tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אַסִּיר: prisoners tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.[m.] mostly coll. prisoners (according to Ol§ 185 a corruption of אָסִיר, cf. LagBN 110) taken in battle Is 10:4 (LagSymm i. 105; GGA 1884, 259 reads חַת אֹסִיר etc., Osiris is broken, but cf. Checrit. n.), 24:22 (sim. of judgment upon kings of earth); 42:7 (‖ ישְׁבֵי חֹשֶׁךְ; ref. to exiled Isr., but v. also Hi Che Di); 1 Ch 3:17 בְּנֵי יְכָנְיָה אַסִּר prob. = sons of Jeconiah the captive (yet note omission of art.) so Be Zö Öt al.; 𝔊 𝔙 trans. as n.pr.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: prisoner[s] (3); a prisoner (1).

In the verses

1 Chronicles 3:17 · tree →

וּבְנֵי֙ יְכָנְיָ֣ה אַסִּ֔ר שְׁאַלְתִּיאֵ֖ל בְּנֽוֹ׃

Word for word: and the.sons of.Jeconiah a.prisoner [were].Shealtiel son his

JPS 1917: And the sons of Jeconiah — the same is Assir — Shealtiel his son;

Isaiah 42:7 · tree →

לִפְקֹ֖חַ עֵינַ֣יִם עִוְר֑וֹת לְהוֹצִ֤יא מִמַּסְגֵּר֙ אַסִּ֔יר מִבֵּ֥ית כֶּ֖לֶא יֹ֥שְׁבֵי חֹֽשֶׁךְ׃

Word for word: to open eyes blind to bring.out from prison prisoner[s] from a.house of.imprisonment [those.who].dwell of.darkness

JPS 1917: To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison-house.

On Mova

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).

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