Genesis 39:20
And Joseph's master took him, and put him into the prison, a place where the king's prisoners were bound: and he was there in the prison.
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Prisoners
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Acts 28:16
And when we came to Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the captain of the guard: but Paul was suffered to dwell by himself with a soldier that kept him.
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אָסִיר
ʼâçîyr · aw-sere'
8 times translated as this KJV form12 total Strong's occurrences
bound, i.e. a captive
Strong's KJV usage: (those which are) bound, prisoner.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 39:20Strong's last: Zechariah 9:12
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désmios · des'-mee-os
3 times translated as this KJV form16 total Strong's occurrences
a captive (as bound)
Strong's KJV usage: :--in bonds, prisoner.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Acts 16:25Strong's last: Acts 28:16
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ʼaççîyr · as-sere'
3 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
Strong's KJV usage: prisoner.
Strong's first: Isaiah 10:4Strong's last: Isaiah 42:7
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desmṓtēs · des-mo'-tace
2 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
(passively) a captive
Strong's KJV usage: :--prisoner.
Strong's first: Acts 27:1Strong's last: Acts 27:42
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ʼâçar · aw-sar'
2 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: Psalms 146:7Strong's last: Isaiah 49:9
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shᵉbîy · sheb-ee'
2 times translated as this KJV form49 total Strong's occurrences
exiled; captured; as noun, exile (abstractly or concretely and collectively); by extension, booty
Strong's KJV usage: captive(-ity), prisoners, × take away, that was taken.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Numbers 21:1Strong's last: Isaiah 20:4
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H616
Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
H615
That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?
H7628
So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.
H616
And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
H616
To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.
H631
That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places.
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prisoner
PRIS'ONER, noun One who is confined in a prison by legal arrest or warrant.
1. A person under arrest or in custody of the sheriff, whether in prison or not; as a prisoner at the bar of a court.
2. A captive; one taken by an enemy in war.
3. One whose liberty is restrained, as a bird in a cage.
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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