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Strong's G1199 δεσμόν (desmon)

Desmon means “band” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H1199 — baara in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G1199
Language Greek
Linked Usages 66
Books 35

Strong's G1199 Quick Answer

Strong's G1199 δεσμόν (desmon) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. desmon (des-mon') (or desmos des-mos') n. 1. a band, i.e. ligament (of the body) or shackle (of a prisoner) 2. (figuratively) an impediment or disability It has 66 linked Bible usages across 35 books. Visible English usage signals include bands. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

Meaning
desmon (des-mon') (or desmos des-mos') n. 1. a band, i.e. ligament (of the body) or shackle (of a prisoner) 2. (figuratively) an impediment or disability
Usage
66 linked usages
Books
35 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch
Usage Words
bands

Meaning and Definition

desmon (des-mon') (or desmos des-mos') n. 1. a band, i.e. ligament (of the body) or shackle (of a prisoner) 2. (figuratively) an impediment or disability [neuter and masculine respectively from G1210] KJV: band, bond, chain, string Root(s): G1210

Original Word
δεσμόν
Transliteration
desmon
Derivation
Root: δέω R1: 1210
Morphology
noun

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G1199. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

chain

Usage: δεσμός, -οῦ, ὁ (δέω), [in LXX chiefly for אסר ;] a band, bond: metaphorically, Luk.13:16; ὁ δεσμὸς τ. γλώσσης, Mrk.7:35 (for this expression in π., see Deiss., LAE, 306 ff.; of actual bonds, see Ruth., Gr., 9). Pl., δεσμοί, Php.1:13; δεσμά (as also in cl.), Luk.8:29, Act.16:26 20:23; genitive, dative, Act.23:29 26:29, 31, Php.1:7, 14, 17, Col.4:18, 2Ti.2:9, Phm 10, Heb.11:36, Ju 6; ἐν τοῖς δ. τοῦ εὐαγγελίου Phm 13.† (AS)

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How Strong's G1199 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render desmon, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

bands Luke 8:29

How Strong's G1199 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 34 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.
  • 1 Enoch rows are separated from the other corpora rather than being hidden inside a generic apocrypha bucket.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G1199 (δεσμόν) appears 48 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G1199 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G1199 in the New Testament

20 indexed usages in New Testament.

Mark 7:35 KJV

And straightway his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain.

Luke 8:29 KJV

(For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For oftentimes it had caught him: and he was kept bound with chains and in fetters; and he brake the bands, and was driven of the devil into the wilderness.)

Luke 13:16 KJV

And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?

Strong's G1199 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

34 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Genesis 42:27 Septuagint / Brenton

And one having opened his sack to give his asses fodder, at the place where they rested, saw also his bundle of money, for it was on the mouth of his sack.

Genesis 42:35 Septuagint / Brenton

And it came to pass as they were emptying their sacks, there was each man’s bundle of money in his sack; and they and their father saw their bundles of money, and they were afraid.

Leviticus 26:13 Septuagint / Brenton

I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, where ye were slaves; and I broke the band of your yoke, and brought you forth openly.

Strong's G1199 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

11 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

1 Esdras 1:38 Septuagint / Brenton

And he bound Jehoiakim and the nobles: but Zarius his brother he apprehended, and brought him out of Egypt.

3 Maccabees 3:25 Septuagint / Brenton

As soon, therefore, as the contents of this letter become known to you, in that same hour we order those Jews who dwell among you, with wives and children, to be sent to us, vilified and abused, in chains of iron, to undergo a death, cruel and ignominious, suitable to men disaffected.

3 Maccabees 5:6 Septuagint / Brenton

The heathen believed the Jews to be destitute of all protection; for chains fettered them about.

Strong's G1199 in 1 Enoch

1 indexed usage in 1 Enoch.

1 Enoch 14:5 Septuagint / Brenton

has been finally passed upon you: yea (your petition) will not be granted unto you. And from henceforth you shall not ascend into heaven unto all eternity, and in bonds of the earth the decree

Usage Excerpts

First 66 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G1199.

Genesis 42:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And one having opened his sack to give his asses fodder, at the place where they rested, saw also his bundle of money, for it was on the mouth of his sack.
Genesis 42:35 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it came to pass as they were emptying their sacks, there was each man’s bundle of money in his sack; and they and their father saw their bundles of money, and they were afraid.
Leviticus 26:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, where ye were slaves; and I broke the band of your yoke, and brought you forth openly.
Numbers 19:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And every open vessel which has not a covering bound upon it, shall be unclean.
Numbers 30:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict her soul, her husband shall confirm it to her, or her husband shall cancel it.
Judges 15:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they spoke to him, saying, Nay, but we will only bind thee fast, and deliver thee into their hand, and will by no means slay thee: and they bound him with two new ropes, and brought him from that rock.
Judges 15:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they came to Lehi: and the Philistines shouted, and ran to meet him: and the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him, and the ropes that were upon his arms became as tow which is burned with fire; and his bonds were consumed from off his hands.
1 Kingdoms 25:29 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if a man shall rise up persecuting thee and seeking thy life, yet shall the life of my lord be bound up in the bundle of life with the Lord God, and thou shalt whirl the life of thine enemies as in the midst of a sling.
2 Chronicles 33:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, and they took Manasseh in bonds, and bound him in fetters, and brought him to Babylon.
Ezra 7:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And whosoever will not do the law of thy God, and the law of the king, let judgment be executed speedily upon him, whether it be unto death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.
Job 38:31 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And dost thou understand the band of Pleiades, And hast thou opened the barrier of Orion?
Job 39:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And who is he that sent forth the wild ass free? And who loosed his bands?
Psalms 2:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Saying, Let us break through their bonds, And cast away their yoke from us.
Psalms 106:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, And broke their bonds asunder.
Psalms 115:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
O Lord, I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thy handmaid: Thou hast burst my bonds asunder.
Proverbs 7:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And that as an ox is led to the slaughter, And as a dog to bonds, Or as a hart shot in the liver with an arrow:
Ecclesiastes 7:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I find her to be, and I will pronounce to be More bitter than death the woman which is a snare, And her heart nets, Who has a band in her hands: He that is good in the sight of God shall be delivered from her; But the sinner shall be caught by her.
Isaiah 28:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Therefore do not ye rejoice, neither let your bands be made strong; for I have heard of works finished and cut short by the Lord of hosts, which he will execute upon all the earth.
Isaiah 42:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
to open the eyes of the blind, to bring the bound and them that sit in darkness out of bonds and the prison house.
Isaiah 49:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
saying to them that are in bonds, Go forth; and bidding them that are in darkness show themselves. They shall be fed in all the ways, and in all the paths shall be their pasture.
Isaiah 52:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Shake off the dust and arise; sit down, Jerusalem: put off the band of thy neck, captive daughter of Zion.
Jeremiah 2:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For of old thou hast broken thy yoke, and plucked asunder thy bands; and thou hast said, I will not serve thee, but will go upon every high hill, and under every shady tree, there will I indulge in my fornication.
Jeremiah 5:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I will go to the rich men, and will speak to them; for they have known the way of the Lord, and the judgment of God: but, behold, with one consent they have broken the yoke, they have burst the bonds.
Jeremiah 34:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thus said the Lord; Make to thyself bonds and yokes, and put them about thy neck,
Jeremiah 37:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
In that day, said the Lord, I will break the yoke off their neck, and will burst their bonds, and they shall no longer serve strangers:
Ezekiel 3:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou, son of man, behold, bonds are prepared for thee, and they shall bind thee with them, and thou shalt not come forth of the midst of them.
Ezekiel 4:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And, behold, I have prepared bonds for thee, and thou mayest not turn from thy one side to the other, until the days of thy siege shall be accomplished.
Daniel 4:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Only leave the stump of its roots in the earth, and bind it with an iron and brass band; and it shall lie in the grass that is without and in the dew of heaven, and its portion shall be with the wild beasts in the grass of the field.
Daniel 4:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And whereas the king saw a watcher and a holy one coming down from heaven, and he said, Strip the tree, and destroy it; only leave the stump of its roots in the ground, and bind it with a band of iron and brass; and it shall lie in the grass that is without, and in the dew of heaven, and its portion shall be with wild beasts, until seven times have passed over it;
Hosea 11:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
When men were destroyed, I drew them with the bands of my love: and I will be to them as a man smiting another on his cheek: and I will have respect to him, I will prevail with him.
Nahum 1:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And now will I break his rod from off thee, and will burst thy bonds.
Habakkuk 3:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, To save thine anointed: Thou shalt bring death on the heads of transgressors; Thou hast brought bands upon their neck. Pause.
Haggai 1:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Ye have sown much, but brought in little; ye have eaten, and are not satisfied; ye have drunk, and are not satisfied with drink, ye have clothed yourselves, and have not become warm thereby: and he that earns wages has gathered them into a bag full of holes.
Malachi 3:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But to you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise, and healing shall be in his wings: and ye shall go forth, and bound as young calves let loose from bonds.
Mark 7:35 New Testament, KJV
And straightway his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain.
Luke 8:29 New Testament, KJV
(For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For oftentimes it had caught him: and he was kept bound with chains and in fetters; and he brake the bands, and was driven of the devil into the wilderness.)
Luke 13:16 New Testament, KJV
And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?
Acts 16:26 New Testament, KJV
And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one's bands were loosed.
Acts 20:23 New Testament, KJV
Save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me.
Acts 22:30 New Testament, KJV
On the morrow, because he would have known the certainty wherefore he was accused of the Jews, he loosed him from his bands, and commanded the chief priests and all their council to appear, and brought Paul down, and set him before them.
Acts 23:29 New Testament, KJV
Whom I perceived to be accused of questions of their law, but to have nothing laid to his charge worthy of death or of bonds.
Acts 26:29 New Testament, KJV
And Paul said, I would to God, that not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, were both almost, and altogether such as I am, except these bonds.
Acts 26:31 New Testament, KJV
And when they were gone aside, they talked between themselves, saying, This man doeth nothing worthy of death or of bonds.
Philippians 1:7 New Testament, KJV
Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace.
Philippians 1:13 New Testament, KJV
So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace, and in all other places;
Philippians 1:14 New Testament, KJV
And many of the brethren in the Lord, waxing confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.
Philippians 1:16 New Testament, KJV
The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds:
Colossians 4:18 New Testament, KJV
The salutation by the hand of me Paul. Remember my bonds. Grace be with you. Amen.
2 Timothy 2:9 New Testament, KJV
Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound.
Philemon 1:10 New Testament, KJV
I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds:
Philemon 1:13 New Testament, KJV
Whom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospel:
Hebrews 10:34 New Testament, KJV
For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.
Hebrews 11:36 New Testament, KJV
And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:
Jude 1:6 New Testament, KJV
And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
1 Esdras 1:38 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And he bound Jehoiakim and the nobles: but Zarius his brother he apprehended, and brought him out of Egypt.
3 Maccabees 3:25 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
As soon, therefore, as the contents of this letter become known to you, in that same hour we order those Jews who dwell among you, with wives and children, to be sent to us, vilified and abused, in chains of iron, to undergo a death, cruel and ignominious, suitable to men disaffected.
3 Maccabees 5:6 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
The heathen believed the Jews to be destitute of all protection; for chains fettered them about.
3 Maccabees 6:27 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Loose, loose the unjust bonds; send them to their homes in peace, and deprecate what has been done.
4 Maccabees 12:2 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
whom the tyrant pitying, though he had been dreadfully reproached by his brethren,
Wisdom of Solomon 10:14 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And left him not in bonds, Till she brought him the scepter of the kingdom, And power against those that oppressed him: As for them that had accused him, she showed them to be liars, And gave him perpetual glory.
Wisdom of Sirach 6:25 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Bow down thy shoulder, and bear her, And be not grieved with her bonds.
Wisdom of Sirach 6:30 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For there is a golden ornament upon her, And her bands are purple lace.
Wisdom of Sirach 13:12 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
But cruelly he will lay up thy words, And will not spare to do thee hurt, and to put thee in prison.
Wisdom of Sirach 28:19 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Well is he that is defended from it, And hath not passed through the venom thereof, Who hath not drawn the yoke thereof, Nor hath been bound in her bands.
Wisdom of Sirach 28:20 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For the yoke thereof is a yoke of iron, And the bands thereof are bands of brass.
1 Enoch 14:5 1 Enoch, Septuagint / Brenton
has been finally passed upon you: yea (your petition) will not be granted unto you. And from henceforth you shall not ascend into heaven unto all eternity, and in bonds of the earth the decree

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G1199, grouped by book.

Genesis 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Leviticus 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Numbers 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Judges 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Kingdoms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Chronicles 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezra 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Job 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Proverbs 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ecclesiastes 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezekiel 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Daniel 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Hosea 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Nahum 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Habakkuk 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Haggai 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Malachi 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Mark 1 usage, New Testament
Luke 2 usages, New Testament
Acts 6 usages, New Testament
Philippians 4 usages, New Testament
Colossians 1 usage, New Testament
2 Timothy 1 usage, New Testament
Philemon 2 usages, New Testament
Hebrews 2 usages, New Testament
Jude 1 usage, New Testament
1 Esdras 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
3 Maccabees 3 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
4 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Solomon 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Sirach 5 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Enoch 1 usage, 1 Enoch

Strong's G1199 FAQ

What does desmon (δεσμόν) mean?

Desmon (Strong's G1199) is a Greek word most simply glossed "band". desmon (des-mon') (or desmos des-mos') n. 1. a band, i.e. ligament (of the body) or shackle (of a prisoner) 2. (figuratively) an impediment or disability

How many times is desmon (δεσμόν) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 66 linked usages for Strong's G1199 across 35 books.

Where can I study desmon (δεσμόν) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G1199 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

What English words translate desmon (δεσμόν)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as bands. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G1199 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 34 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, 11 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 in 1 Enoch for Strong's G1199, with linked reader references where each row is available.