Genesis 37:7
For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf.
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Binding
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Acts 22:4
And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.
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2 occurrences in 2 verses.
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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: Acts 22:4Strong's last: Acts 22:4
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ʼâlam · aw-lam'
1 times translated as this KJV form9 total Strong's occurrences
to tie fast; hence (of the mouth) to be tongue-tied
Strong's KJV usage: bind, be dumb, put to silence.
Strong's first: Genesis 37:7Strong's last: Genesis 37:7
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ʼâçar · aw-sar'
1 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: Genesis 49:11Strong's last: Genesis 49:11
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ʼĕçâr · es-sawr'
1 times translated as this KJV form11 total Strong's occurrences
an obligation or vow (of abstinence)
Strong's KJV usage: binding, bond.
Strong's first: Numbers 30:13Strong's last: Numbers 30:13
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sâphâh · saw-faw'
1 times translated as this KJV form176 total Strong's occurrences
the lip (as a natural boundary); by implication, language; by analogy, a margin (of a vessel, water, cloth, etc.)
Strong's KJV usage: band, bank, binding, border, brim, brink, edge, language, lip, prating, (sea-)shore, side, speech, talk, (vain) words.
Strong's first: Exodus 28:32Strong's last: Exodus 28:32
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H481
For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf.
H631
Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes:
H8193
And there shall be an hole in the top of it, in the midst thereof: it shall have a binding of woven work round about the hole of it, as it were the hole of an habergeon, that it be not rent.
H632
Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.
G1195
And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.
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binding
BI'NDING, participle present tense Fastening with a band; confining; restraining; covering or wrapping; obliging by a promise or other moral tie; making costive; contracting; making hard or stiff.
BI'NDING, adjective That obliges; obligatory; as the binding force of a moral duty or of a command.
BI'NDING, noun The act of fastening with a band or obliging; a bandage; the cover of a book, with the sewing and accompanying work; any thing that binds; something that secures the edge of cloth.
1. In the art of defense, a method of securing or crossing the adversary's sword with a pressure, accompanied with a spring of the wrist.
Binding-joists, in architecture, are the joists of a floor into which the trimmers of staircases, or well holes of the stairs and chimney ways, are framed.
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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