Words the Bible translates as bound
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 4 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- gevulגְּבוּלborder: the marked line where one piece of land ends and the next begins, the stone that marks it, and the territory that line encloses
- douloōδουλόωto enslave: to put someone under another's ownership, so that they are no longer their own.
- asirאָסִירa prisoner: someone held in confinement, whether locked in a jail or a pit or carried off and kept by a conquering power
- qaphatsקָפַץto bound: to spring lightly across rough ground.
+1 more meaning
- to shut something tight, especially a hand or a mouth, so that nothing comes out of it.
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