Lexicon assir: prisoners Original Word: אַסִּירPart of Speech: Noun Masculine Transliteration: assir Phonetic Spelling: (as-sere') Short Definition: prisoners NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom asarDefinitionprisoners NASB Translationcaptives (1), prisoner (1), prisoners (2).
Brown-Driver-Briggs אַסִּיר noun [masculine] mostly collective prisoners (according to Ol § 185 a corruption of אָסִיר, compare Lag BN 110) taken in battle Isaiah 10:4 (Lag Symm i. 105; GGA 1884, 259 reads חַת אֹסִיר etc., Osiris is broken, but compare Che critical note.), Isaiah 24:22 (simile of judgment upon kings of earth); Isaiah 42:7 ("" ישְׁבֵי חשֶׁךְ; reference to exiled Israel, but see also Hi Che Di); 1 Chronicles 3:17 בְּנֵי יְכָנְיָה אַסִּר probably = sons of Jeconiah the captive (yet note omission of article) so Be Zö Öttli and others; ᵐ5 ᵑ9 translated as proper name |
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