Himas means “latchet” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H2438 — chiram (“Hiram”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G2438 ἱμάς (himas) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. himas (hee-mas') n. 1. a strap 2. (specially) the tie (of a sandal) or the lash (of a scourge) It has 9 linked Bible usages across 8 books. Visible English usage signals include latchet and scourge. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
himas (hee-mas') n. 1. a strap 2. (specially) the tie (of a sandal) or the lash (of a scourge) [perhaps from the same as G260] KJV: latchet, thong Root(s): G260
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leather strap
Usage: ἱμάς, -άντος, ὁ [in LXX: Isa.5:27 (שְׂרוֹךְ), Sir.33:26, 4Ma.9:11, al ;] a thong, strap: for binding prisoners (Ma, Sir, ll. with), Act.22:25; for fastening sandals, Mk, Luk.3:16, Jhn.1:27.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render himas, 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.
Indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. 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.
Strong's G2438 (ἱμάς) appears 5 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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4 indexed usages in New Testament.
And preached, saying, There cometh one mightier than I after me, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose.
John answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire:
He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe's latchet I am not worthy to unloose.
3 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And wilt thou bind his yoke with thongs, Or will he plow furrows for thee in the plain?
Woe to them that draw sins to them as with a long rope, and iniquities as with a thong of the heifer’s yoke:
They shall not hunger nor be weary, neither shall they slumber nor sleep; neither shall they loose their girdles from their loins, neither shall their shoe latchets be broken.
2 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
So that, at his bidding, the torturers brought forth the eldest of them, and tearing through his tunic, bound his hands and arms on each side with thongs.
First 9 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2438.
And wilt thou bind his yoke with thongs, Or will he plow furrows for thee in the plain?
Woe to them that draw sins to them as with a long rope, and iniquities as with a thong of the heifer’s yoke:
They shall not hunger nor be weary, neither shall they slumber nor sleep; neither shall they loose their girdles from their loins, neither shall their shoe latchets be broken.
And preached, saying, There cometh one mightier than I after me, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose.
John answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire:
He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe's latchet I am not worthy to unloose.
And as they bound him with thongs, Paul said unto the centurion that stood by, Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman, and uncondemned?
So that, at his bidding, the torturers brought forth the eldest of them, and tearing through his tunic, bound his hands and arms on each side with thongs.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G2438, grouped by book.
Himas (Strong's G2438) is a Greek word most simply glossed "latchet". himas (hee-mas') n. 1. a strap 2. (specially) the tie (of a sandal) or the lash (of a scourge)
This page currently indexes 9 linked usages for Strong's G2438 across 8 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2438 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as latchet and scourge. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 3 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 2 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G2438, with linked reader references where each row is available.