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chains

Meaning of “chains”

Sense 1: Series of connected links used as ornaments, restraints, or bonds. Sense 2: Figuratively, confinement, affliction, or surrounding force.

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37 occurrences34 verses17 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: Exodus 28:14

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Mark 5:3
Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains:
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Mark 5:3 · retained source text

Who had his dwelling among the tombs, and no man could binde him, no not with chaines:

Mark 5:4
Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him.
2 word occurrences in this verse
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1611 witness · Mark 5:4 · retained source text

Because that hee had bene often bound with fetters and chaines, and the chaines had bene plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him.

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