Lexicon brochos: a noose, halter Original Word: βρόχος, ου, ὁPart of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: brochos Phonetic Spelling: (brokh'-os) Short Definition: a noose or snare Definition: a noose or snare; a cord. HELPS word-Studies 1029 bróxos – properly, a noose; (figuratively) unnecessary restraint. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origina prim. word Definitiona noose, halter NASB Translationrestraint (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 1029: βρόχοςβρόχος, βροχου, ὁ, a noose, slip-knot, by which any person or thing is caught, or fastened, or suspended (from Homer down): βρόχον ἐπιβάλλειν τίνι to throw a noose upon one, a figurative expression borrowed from war (or the chase) (so βρόχος περιβάλλειν τίνι, Philo, vit. Moys. iii. § 34; Josephus, b. j. 7, 7, 4), i. e. by craft or by force to bind one to some necessity, to constrain him to obey some command, 1 Corinthians 7:35.
Strong's snare, noose Of uncertain derivation; a noose -- snare. |
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