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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H615
As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.
H615
Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare that I will render double unto thee;
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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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