Greek noun (masculine) · G1202
δεσμώτης
desmotesdes-mo'-tace
prisoner
2 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: desmṓtēs
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G1202is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 27New Testament books
- 1spelling
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G1202
(passively) a captive
The King James renders it: prisoner.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
desmotes is rendered "prisoner". It stands 2 times in the Greek text, across one book.
- Two of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Acts 27:1When it was decided that we would sail for Italy, Paul and some other prisoners were handed over to a centurion named Julius, who belonged to the Imperial Regiment.
The first use
When it was decided that we would sail for Italy, Paul and some other prisoners were handed over to a centurion named Julius, who belonged to the Imperial Regiment.
Acts 27:1δεσμώτας
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's two uses are in Acts.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- prisoners2
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| δέσμιος | desmios | prisoner | Uses16 |
| δεσμωτήριον | desmoterion | prison | Uses4 |
| δεσμεύω | desmeuo | to bind | Uses3 |
| δεσμοφύλαξ | desmophylax | jailer | Uses3 |
| δέσμη | desme | bundle | Uses1 |
| δεσμέω | desmeo | to shackle | Usesnot recorded |
All 2, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
1 spelling and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- δεσμώτας2
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · masculine plural2N-APM
Acts
two uses
When it was decided that we would sail for Italy, Paul and some other prisoners were handed over to a centurion named Julius, who belonged to the Imperial Regiment.
- δεσμώταςdesmotasnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: prisoners
The soldiers planned to kill the prisoners so none of them could swim to freedom.
- δεσμώταςdesmotasnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: prisoners
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.