1195 - desmeuó

Strong's Concordance

Original word: δεσμεύω
Transliteration: desmeuó
Definition (short): binding
Definition (full): to bind together, to fetter

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin: from desmos
Definition: to bind together, to fetter
NASB Translation: binding (1), bound (1), tie (1).
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

From a (presumed) derivative of desmeo; to be a binder (captor), i.e. To enchain (a prisoner), to tie on (a load) -- bind.

see GREEK desmeo

KJV: For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.
NASB: "They tie up heavy burdens and lay them on men's shoulders, but they themselves are unwilling to move them with so much as a finger.
KJV: (For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For oftentimes it had caught him: and he was kept bound with chains and in fetters; and he brake the bands, and was driven of the devil into the wilderness.)
NASB: For He had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For it had seized him many times; and he was bound with chains and shackles and kept under guard, and yet he would break his bonds and be driven by the demon into the desert.
KJV: And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.
NASB: "I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and putting both men and women into prisons,