noun · masculine
desmōtos
Strong’sG1202
a prisoner, captive
stem desmōt-2 times in the New Testament1 of 10 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.
δεσμώτης, -ου, ὁ
[in LXX for אסר, מַסְגֵּר;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1202 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saiddes-mo'-tace
(passively) a captive
Fromfrom the same as G1201;
King Jamesprisoner.
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
prisoner, captive, Refs 5th c.BC+:—feminine δεσμ-ῶτις, Refs 3rd c.AD+: metaphorically of the soul, Refs 1st c.AD+
II as adjective, in chains, fettered, Refs 5th c.BC+; Μελανίππη δ., name of a play by Refs 5th c.BC+
III gaoler, Refs 5th c.BC+
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 nominative | desmōtos | desmōtois |
| object accusative | desmōton | desmōtoin2×δεσμώτας |
| direct address vocative | desmōtor | desmōtoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | desmōtou | desmōtoiu |
| to, for dative | desmōto | desmōtoi |
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
desmōto 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.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
desmōtoin“prisoners”objectaccusative plural2×
Acts 27:1… ton tē Paulon kai tinoin heteroin desmōtoin hekatontarchēo onome Ioulio speirau Sebastau.… for Italy, Paul and some other prisoners were handed over to a centurion …
Acts 27:42… de stratiōtoiu boulas geneta hina toin desmōtoin apoktenaleia, mē tinos ekkolumbarantos diafeugateia;The soldiers planned to kill the prisoners so none of them could swim …