δεσμός desmos

Greek word for “chain” · Strong’s G1199 · used 18 times in 18 verses

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Meaning

δεσμός, -οῦ, ὁ; (δέω);

How it is translated

Glosses given for desmos in context, with how often each is used:

• chains 16
• band 1
• bond 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Philippians 1 (4), Acts 26 (2), Philemon 1 (2), Mark 7 (1), Luke 8 (1), Luke 13 (1), Acts 16 (1), Acts 20 (1), Acts 23 (1), Colossians 4 (1)

Forms

• δεσμῶν 6
• δεσμοῖς 6
• δεσμὰ 3
• δεσμὸς 1
• δεσμοῦ 1
• δεσμούς 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with desmos more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• λύω luō “to loose” 2
• ἄξιος axios “worthy” 2
• μέγας megas “great” 3
• δέω deō “to bind” 2
• θλῖψις thlipsis “pressure” 2
• λαλέω laleō “to speak” 3
• εὐαγγέλιον euangelion “gospel” 2
• ἀνοίγω anoigō “to open” 2
• ὥστε hōste “so” 2
• θάνατος thanatos “death” 2
• ὑπέρ huper “above/for” 2
• χάρις charis “grace” 2

Key verses

The verses using desmos that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Luke 13:16 — 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?
• Acts 16:26 — 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…
• Acts 20:23 — Save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me.
• Acts 23:29 — Whom I perceived to be accused of questions of their law, but to have nothing laid to his charge worthy of death or of bonds.
• Acts 26:29 — And Paul said, I would to God, that not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, were both almost, and altogether such as I am, except these bonds.
• Philippians 1:7 — Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the…
• Philippians 1:13 — So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace, and in all other places;
• Philippians 1:14 — And many of the brethren in the Lord, waxing confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.
• Colossians 4:18 — The salutation by the hand of me Paul. Remember my bonds. Grace be with you. Amen. Written from Rome to the Colossians by Tychicus and Onesimus.
• 2 Timothy 2:9 — Where in I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound.
• Hebrews 11:36 — And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:
• Jude 1:6 — And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.