Greek noun (neuter) · G1201
δεσμωτήριον
desmoteriondes-mo-tay'-ree-on
prison
4 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: desmōtḗrion
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G1201is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G1201
a place of bondage, i.e. a dungeon
The King James renders it: prison.
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
desmoterion is rendered "prison". It stands 4 times in the Greek text, across two books.
- Three of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 11:2Meanwhile John heard in prison about the works of Christ, and he sent his disciples
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
Meanwhile John heard in prison about the works of Christ, and he sent his disciples
Matthew 11:2δεσμωτηρίῳ
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- prison house3
- prison1
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.
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings 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
- δεσμωτήριον2
- δεσμωτηρίου1
- δεσμωτηρίῳ1
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · neuter singular2N-ASN
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singular1N-DSN
- noun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singular1N-GSN
Matthew
one use
Meanwhile John heard in prison about the works of Christ, and he sent his disciples
- δεσμωτηρίῳdesmoterionoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: prison
Acts
three uses
At daybreak the apostles entered the temple courts as they had been told and began to teach the people. When the high priest and his associates arrived, they convened the Sanhedrin—the full assembly of the elders of Israel—and sent to the jail for the apostles.
- δεσμωτήριονdesmoterionnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: prison house
“We found the jail securely locked, with the guards posted at the doors; but when we opened them, we found no one inside.”
- δεσμωτήριονdesmoterionnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: prison house
Suddenly a strong earthquake shook the foundations of the prison. At once all the doors flew open and everyone’s chains came loose.
- δεσμωτηρίουdesmoteriounoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: prison house
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.