noun · neuter
desmem
Strong’sG1199
a bond, chain
stem desm-3 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 of 6 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
δεσμός, -οῦ, ὁ
(< δέω), [in LXX chiefly for אסר;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1199 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saiddes-mon'
a band, i.e. ligament (of the body) or shackle (of a prisoner); figuratively, an impediment or disability
Fromneuter and masculine respectively from G1210;
King Jamesband, bond, chain, string.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
plural δεσμά Refs 6th c.BC+, and so mostly in Trag., Refs 5th c.BC+: both forms in Attic dialect Inscrr., δεσμοί Refs the latter preferred by Refs 6th c.AD+, Attic dialect accusative to Refs 5th c.AD+:—band, bond, anything for tying and fastening, as halter, Refs 8th c.BC+; mooring-cable, Refs 8th c.BC+; door-latch, Refs; yoke-strap, Refs 5th c.BC+: metaphorically, any bond of union or connexion, Refs 5th c.BC+; of the vowels, Refs; δεσμοὶ πολιτείας, of the laws, Refs; εἰς τὰ δεσμοῦ for binding material, Refs 1st c.BC+
2 in plural (never δεσμά in this sense), bonds, chains, ἐκ δεσμῶν λυθῆναι Refs 4th c.BC+; πρὶν ἂν ἐξ ἀγρίων δ. χαλάσῃRefs 5th c.BC+; ὁ ἐπὶ τῶν δ., ={δεσμοφύλαξ}, Refs 2nd c.AD+: in singular, collectively, bonds, imprisonment, δ. ἀχλυόεις epigram cited in Refs 5th c.BC+: metaphorically of moral bondage, Refs 3rd c.AD+
3 ligature, Refs 4th c.BC+
4 δ. ἄρθρου in Refs 5th c.BC+ (at [prev. work]) as ankylosis.
5 spell, charm, Refs 4th c.AD+
II ={δέσμη}, Papyrus in Refs 1st c.BC+; δ. ἀργυρίου LXX
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject or object direct | desmem | desmeim2×δεσμὰ |
| of, belonging to genitive | desmeu | desmeiu |
| to, for dative | desme | desmei |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
desme is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
desmeim“chains”subject or objectdirect plural2×
Acts 16:26… tais thurais pantais, kai pantoiu teim desmeim aniēkita.… the doors flew open and everyone’s chains came loose.
Acts 20:23… kata polan diamarturotō mi legarōntem hoti desmeim kai thlipsiais min menalō;… the Holy Spirit warns me that chains and afflictions await me.
desmeim1×
Luke 8:29“bonds”… kai pedai fulassorōntos, kai diarrēgarōntos teim desmeim elaunote hupo teu daimoneu eis tain …… with chains and shackles, he had broken the chains and been driven by the demon into solitary places.