Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
magistrate
Usage: restraint, oppression
Etser means “restraint” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H6114 עֶצֶר (`etser) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. `etser (eh'-tser) n-m. 1. restraint [from H6113] It has 1 linked Bible usage across 1 book. Visible English usage signals include magistrate. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
`etser (eh'-tser) n-m. 1. restraint [from H6113] KJV: + magistrate. Root(s): H6113
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magistrate
Usage: restraint, oppression
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render `etser, 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 Old Testament. 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.
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1 indexed usage in Old Testament.
Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people that were therein, how they dwelt careless, after the manner of the Zidonians, quiet and secure; and there was no magistrate in the land, that might put them to shame in any thing; and they were far from the Zidonians, and had no business with any man.
First 1 linked usage excerpt for Strong's H6114.
Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people that were therein, how they dwelt careless, after the manner of the Zidonians, quiet and secure; and there was no magistrate in the land, that might put them to shame in any thing; and they were far from the Zidonians, and had no business with any man.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H6114, grouped by book.
Etser (Strong's H6114) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "restraint". `etser (eh'-tser) n-m. 1. restraint [from H6113]
This page currently indexes 1 linked usage for Strong's H6114 across 1 book.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H6114 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as magistrate. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.