1199 - desmos

Strong's Concordance

Original word: δεσμόν
Transliteration: desmos
Definition (short): imprisonment
Definition (full): a band, bond

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin: from deó
Definition: a band, bond
NASB Translation: bond (1), bonds (3), chains (3), impediment (1), imprisonment (10).
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

Or desmos des-mos' neuter and masculine respectively from deo; a band, i.e. Ligament (of the body) or shackle (of a prisoner); figuratively, an impediment or disability -- band, bond, chain, string.

see GREEK deo

KJV: And straightway his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain.
NASB: And his ears were opened, and the impediment of his tongue was removed, and he began speaking plainly.
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 ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?
NASB: "And this woman, a daughter of Abraham as she is, whom Satan has bound for eighteen long years, should she not have been released from this bond on the Sabbath day?"
KJV: And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one's bands were loosed.
NASB: and suddenly there came a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison house were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone's chains were unfastened.
KJV: Save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me.
NASB: except that the Holy Spirit solemnly testifies to me in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions await me.