noun · neuter
desmōtēriem
Strong’sG1201
a prison
stem desmōtēri-4 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 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.
δεσμωτήριον, -ου, τό
[in LXX for בֵּית הַסֹהַר (Ge), אָסִיר;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1201 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saiddes-mo-tay'-ree-on
a place of bondage, i.e. a dungeon
Fromfrom a derivative of G1199 (equivalent to G1196);
King Jamesprison.
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
prison, Refs 5th c.BC+: plural, = Latin ergastula, Refs 1st c.AD+
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 | desmōtēriem | desmōtērieim |
| of, belonging to genitive | desmōtērieu1×δεσμωτηρίου | desmōtērieiu |
| to, for dative | desmōtērie1×δεσμωτηρίῳ | desmōtēriei |
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
desmōtērie 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
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
desmōtērieu“prison”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Acts 16:26… megos hōste saleuira teim themelieim teu desmōtērieu, anoigila de parachrēma tais thurais pantais, …… earthquake shook the foundations of the prison. At once all the doors flew …
desmōtērie“prison”to, fordative singular1×
Matthew 11:2Tos de Iōannos akouarantos en te desmōtērie teim ergeim tou christou pemparantos dia …Meanwhile John heard in prison about the works of Christ, and …
desmōtēriem2×
Acts 5:21“prison”… huioiu Israēl, kai apostelala eis tem desmōtēriem agira autoin.… elders of Israel— and sent to the jail for the apostles.
Acts 5:23“prison”legarōntois hoti Tem desmōtēriem heuriskana kleiorēntem en panta asfaleia kai …“We found the jail securely locked, with the guards …