Bible Verse Dictionary
Judges 16:21 - Brass
Verse | Strongs No. | Hebrew | |
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But the Philistines | H6430 | פְּלִשְׁתִּי |
[Adjective] a Pelishtite or inhabitant of Pelesheth |
took | H270 | אָחַז |
[Verb] to seize (often with the accessory idea of holding in possession) |
him and put out | H5365 | נָקַר |
[Verb] to bore ({penetrate } quarry) |
his eyes | H5869 | עַיִן |
[Noun] an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy a fountain (as the eye of the landscape) |
and brought him down | H3381 | יָרַד |
[Verb] to descend (literally to go downwards; or conventionally to a lower {region} as the {shore} a {boundary} the {enemy} etc.; or figuratively to fall); causatively to bring down (in all the above applications) |
to Gaza | H5804 | עַזָּה |
[Noun Feminine] strong; {Azzah} a place in Palestine |
and bound | H631 | אָסַר |
[Verb] to yoke or hitch; by analogy to fasten in any {sense} to join battle |
him with fetters of brass | H5178 | נְחֹשֶׁת |
[Noun Masculine] copper; {hence} something made of that {metal} that {is} {coin } a fetter; figuratively base (as compared with gold or silver) |
and he did | H1961 | הָיָה |
[Verb] to {exist} that {is} be or {become} come to pass (always {emphatic} and not a mere copula or auxiliary) |
grind | H2912 | טָחַן |
[Verb] to grind meal; hence to be a concubine (that being their employment) |
in the prison | H615 | אָסִיר |
[Noun Masculine] {bound} that {is} a captive |
house | H1004 | בַּיִת |
[Noun Masculine] a house (in the greatest variation of {applications} especially {family} etc.) |
Definitions are taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.