Exodus 28:28
And they shall bind the breastplate by the rings thereof unto the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may be above the curious girdle of the ephod, and that the breastplate be not loosed from the ephod.
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Bind
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Acts 21:11
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.
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אָסַר
ʼâçar · aw-sar'
13 times translated as this KJV form73 total Strong's occurrences
to yoke or hitch; by analogy, to fasten in any sense, to join battle
Strong's KJV usage: bind, fast, gird, harness, hold, keep, make ready, order, prepare, prison(-er), put in bonds, set in array, tie.
Strong's first: Numbers 30:2Strong's last: Hosea 10:10
Open full H631 profile →קָשַׁר
qâshar · kaw-shar'
11 times translated as this KJV form44 total Strong's occurrences
to tie, physically (gird, confine, compact) or mentally (in love, league)
Strong's KJV usage: bind (up), (make a) conspire(-acy, -ator), join together, knit, stronger, work (treason).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 6:8Strong's last: Jeremiah 51:63
Open full H7194 profile →δέω
déō · deh'-o
9 times translated as this KJV form51 total Strong's occurrences
to bind (in various applications, literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--bind, be in bonds, knit, tie, wind.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 12:29Strong's last: Acts 21:11
Open full G1210 profile →חָבַשׁ
châbash · khaw-bash'
3 times translated as this KJV form33 total Strong's occurrences
to wrap firmly (especially a turban, compress, or saddle); figuratively, to stop, to rule
Strong's KJV usage: bind (up), gird about, govern, healer, put, saddle, wrap about.
Strong's first: Job 40:13Strong's last: Ezekiel 30:21
Open full H2280 profile →רָכַס
râkaç · raw-kas'
2 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
to tie
Strong's KJV usage: bind.
Strong's first: Exodus 28:28Strong's last: Exodus 39:21
Open full H7405 profile →δεσμεύω
desmeúō · des-myoo'-o
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
to be a binder (captor), i.e. to enchain (a prisoner), to tie on (a load)
Strong's KJV usage: :-- bind.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 23:4Strong's last: Matthew 23:4
Open full G1195 profile →כְּפַת
kᵉphath · kef-ath'
1 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
to fetter
Strong's KJV usage: bind.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Daniel 3:20Strong's last: Daniel 3:20
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ʻânad · aw-nad'
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
to lace fast
Strong's KJV usage: bind, tie.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Job 31:36Strong's last: Job 31:36
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tsûwr · tsoor
1 times translated as this KJV form38 total Strong's occurrences
to cramp, i.e. confine (in many applications, literally and figuratively, formative or hostile)
Strong's KJV usage: adversary, assault, beset, besiege, bind (up), cast, distress, fashion, fortify, inclose, lay siege, put up in bags.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Ezekiel 5:3Strong's last: Ezekiel 5:3
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râtham · raw-tham'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
to yoke up (to the pole of a vehicle)
Strong's KJV usage: bind.
Strong's first: Micah 1:13Strong's last: Micah 1:13
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H631
If a man vow a vow unto the LORD, or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond; he shall not break his word, he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth.
H631
If a woman also vow a vow unto the LORD, and bind herself by a bond, being in her father's house in her youth;
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bind
BIND, verb transitive
1. To tie together, or confine with a cord, or any thing that is flexible; to fasten as with a band, fillet or ligature.
2. To gird, inwrap or involve; to confine by a wrapper, cover or bandage; sometimes with up; as, to bind up a wound.
3. To confine or restrain, as with a chain, fetters or cord; as, bind him hand and foot.
4. To restrain in any manner.
He bindeth the floods from overflowing. Job 28:11.
5. To oblige by a promise, vow, stipulation, covenant, law, duty or any other moral tie; to engage.
If a man shall swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond. Numbers 30:2.
We are bound by the laws of kindness, of nature, of a state, etc.
6. To confirm or ratify.
Whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth, shall be bound in heaven. Matthew 16:19.
7. To distress, trouble, or confine by infirmity.
Whom Satan hath bound these eighteen years. Luke 13:1.
8. To constrain by a powerful influence or persuasion.
I go bound in the spirit to Jerusalem. Acts 20:1.
9. To restrain the natural discharges of the bowels; to make costive; as, certain kinds of food bind the body or bowels.
10. To form a border; to fasten with a band, ribin, or any thing that strengthens the edges; as, to bind a garment or carpet.
11. To cover with leather or anything firm; to sew together and cover; as, to bind a book.
12. To cover or secure by a band; as, to bind a wheel with tire.
13. To oblige to serve, by contract; as, to bind an apprentice; often with out; as, to bind out a servant.
14. To make hard or firm; as, certain substances bind the earth.
To bind to is to contract; as, to bind one's self to a wife.
To bind over is to oblige by bond to appear at a court.
BIND, verb intransitive To contract; to grow hard or stiff; as, clay binds by heat.
1. To grow or become costive.
2. To be obligatory.
BIND, noun A stalk of hops, so called from its winding round a pole or tree, or being bound to it.
1. A bind of eels, is a quantity consisting of 10 strikes, each containing 25 eels, or 250 in the whole.
2. Among miners, indurated clay, when much mixed with the oxyd of iron.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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