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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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.
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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:
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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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