ΔΕΣΜΩΤΗΡΙΟΝ, δεσμωτηριον
DESMŌTĒRION, desmōtērion
Sounds Like: des-moh-TEE-ree-on
Translations: prison, a prison, jail, a jail, dungeon, a dungeon
From the root: ΔΕΣΜΟΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a place of confinement or imprisonment, such as a prison, jail, or dungeon. It is used to describe a facility where individuals are held captive, often as a form of punishment or detention. It can be used in sentences like 'He was cast into the prison' or 'They were held in the dungeon.'
Inflection: Singular, Nominative or Accusative, Neuter
Strong’s number: G1201 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
1 Enoch Greek Collection
Codex Sinaiticus
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Two — 21:57
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
The Shepherd of Hermas — Parables
- Parable 9 — 28:7
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΔΕΣΜΟΣ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΔΕΣΕΙ — bond, chain, fetter, prison, imprisonment, of a bond, of a chain
- ΔΕΣΙ — bonds, chains, imprisonment, of bonds, to bonds
- ΔΕΣΜΙΟΝ — prisoner, a prisoner, captive, a captive
- ΔΕΣΜΟ — bond, a bond, chain, a chain, prison, a prison, imprisonment, a band, fetter, a fetter
- ΔΕΣΜΟΙ — chains, bonds, fetters, imprisonment
- ΔΕΣΜΟΙΣ — bonds, chains, fetters, imprisonment, (in) bonds, (in) chains
- ΔΕΣΜΟΝ — bond, chain, fetter, prison, a bond, a chain, a fetter, a prison
- ΔΕΣΜΟΣ — bond, a bond, chain, a chain, imprisonment, a prison
- ΔΕΣΜΟΤΗΡΙΟΝ — prison, a prison, dungeon, a dungeon, jail, a jail
- ΔΕΣΜΟΥ — of a bond, of a chain, of a prison, of imprisonment
- ΔΕΣΜΟΥΣ — bonds, chains, fetters, imprisonment
- ΔΕΣΜΩ — (with) a bond, (with) a chain, (with) a fetter, (with) a prison
- ΔΕΣΜΩΝ — (of) chains, (of) bonds, (of) imprisonment, (of) prison
- ΔΕΣΜΩΝΤΟΝ — of bonds, of chains, of prisons, of imprisonment
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