Asir אָסִיר

Asir (Hebrew אָסִיר, Strong's H615) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “prisoner”. It occurs 11 times in 11 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Asir, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis

• Genesis 39:20
  And Joseph’s master took him, and put him into the prison, a place where the king’s prisoners were bound: and he was there in the prison.So Joseph’s master took him and had him thrown into the prison where the king’s prisoners were confined. While Joseph was there in the prison,
• Genesis 39:22
  And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph’s hand all the prisoners that were in the prison; and whatsoever they did there, he was the doer of it.And the warden put all the prisoners under Joseph’s care, so that he was responsible for all that was done in the prison.

Job

• Job 3:18
  There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.The captives enjoy their ease; they do not hear the voice of the oppressor.

Psalms

• Psalm 68:6
  God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.God settles the lonely in families; He leads the prisoners out to prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.
• Psalm 69:33
  For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.For the LORD listens to the needy and does not despise His captive people.
• Psalm 102:20
  To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death;to hear a prisoner’s groaning, to release those condemned to death,
• Psalm 107:10
  Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in affliction and chains,

Isaiah

• Isaiah 14:17
  That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?who turned the world into a desert and destroyed its cities, who refused to let the captives return to their homes?”

Lamentations

• Lamentations 3:34
  To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,To crush underfoot all the prisoners of the land,

Zechariah

• Zechariah 9:11
  As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.As for you, because of the blood of My covenant, I will release your prisoners from the waterless pit.
• Zechariah 9:12
  Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare that I will render double unto thee;Return to your stronghold, O prisoners of hope; even today I declare that I will restore to you double.

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).