Definition

a bond (especially manacles of a prisoner)

Etymology

from H631 (אָסַר);

Word family

• אָסַר ʼâçar

How the KJV renders it

• band
• prison

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.