2001 Translation

DESMA, desma

Sounds Like: DES-ma

Translations: bonds, chains, fetters, imprisonment

From the root: ΔΕΣΜΑ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to physical restraints like chains or fetters, or metaphorically to the bonds of imprisonment or captivity. It is typically used in the plural to denote a set of such restraints.

Inflection: Plural, Nominative or Accusative, Neuter

Strong’s number: G1199 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 4:53

Clement of Rome

• Clement’s First Letter — 5:6, 55:2

Codex Sinaiticus

• 4 Maccabees — 12:2
• Acts of the Apostles — 16:26, 20:23

Ignatius of Antioch

• Ignatius’ Letter to the Smyrnaeans — 10:2
• Ignatius’ Letter to the Ephesians — 11:2
• Ignatius’ Letter to Polycarp — 2:3
• Ignatius’ Letter to the Trallians — 12:2

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 2 — 5:60
• Book 5 — 8:300
• Book 12 — 6:204
• Book 16 — 8:252, 8:258
• Book 19 — 7:324

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book Four — 3:23, 10:44

Justin Martyr

• Second Apology of Justin Martyr — 0:2, 0:14

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• 3 Maccabees — 6:27
• 4 Maccabees — 12:3

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Luke — 8:29
• Acts — 16:26, 20:23

From the same root

No other words from the same root, ΔΕΣΜΑ, appear in our texts.

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