KJV dictionary & concordance
Bonds or shackles, often of iron or brass, used to bind or confine a person.
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Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: Judges 16:21
Complete exact-word concordance
¶ But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.
¶ But the Philistines tooke him and put out his eyes, and brought him downe to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brasse, and he did grind in the prison house.
1611 marginal noteHebr. boared out.
Thy hands were not bound, nor thy feet put into fetters: as a man falleth before wicked men, so fellest thou. And all the people wept again over him.
Thy hands were not bound, nor thy feete put into fetters: as a man falleth before wicked men, so fellest thou. And all the people wept againe ouer him.
1611 marginal noteHeb. children of iniquitie.
And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried him to Babylon.
And they slew the sonnes of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brasse, and carried him to Babylon.
1611 marginal noteHeb. made blinde.
¶ Wherefore the Lord brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
¶ Wherfore the LORD brought vpon them the captaines of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thornes, & bound him with fetters, & caried him to Babylon.
1611 marginal noteHeb. which were the kings.
1611 marginal noteOr, chaines.
Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.
Against him came vp Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon, and bound him in fetters to cary him to Babylon.
1611 marginal noteOr, chaines.
And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction;
And if they bee bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction:
Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron:
Whose feete they hurt with fetters: he was layd in iron.
1611 marginal noteHeb. his soule came into yron.
1611 marginal noteGen.39.20.
To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;
To binde their Kings with chaines: and their Nobles with fetters of yron.
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.
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.
(For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For oftentimes it had caught him: and he was kept bound with chains and in fetters; and he brake the bands, and was driven of the devil into the wilderness.)
(For he had commanded the vncleane spirit to come out of the man: For oftentimes it had caught him, and he was kept bound with chaines, and in fetters: and he brake the bands, and was driuen of the deuil into the wildernesse.)
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