δεσμός

δεσμόν — desmón

δεσμός, δεσμοῦ, ὁ (δέω) (from Homer down), a band or bond: Mar 7:35 (ἐλύθη ὁ δεσμός τῆς γλώσσης αὐτοῦ, i. e. the impediment in his speech was removed); Luk 13:16 (λυθῆναι ἀπό τοῦ δεσμοῦ, of a woman bowed together, held fasces it were by a bond). The plural form τά δεσμά the more common form in Greek writers (Winers Grammar, 63 (62) (cf. Buttmann, 23 (21); see below)), is found in Luk 8:29; Act 16:26; Act 20:23; the other form οἱ δεσμοί in Php 1:13 (ὥστε τούς δεσμούς μου φανερούς ἐν Χριστῷ γενέσθαι, so that my captivity became manifest as made for the cause of Christ) ("δεσμάsuntvinculaquibusquisconstringitur,sed δεσμόςestincarceremconjectioetcaptivitasinvinculis...UtraqueformaetceteriGraeciomnesetAtticiutuntur,sednonpromiscueutintersepermutaripossint." Cobet as quoted in Rutherford, New Phryn., p. 353); the genitive and dative in Act 22:30 Rec.;; Php 1:7; Php 1:14; Php 1:16; Col 4:18; 2Ti 2:9; Phm 1:10; Heb 10:34 R Tr marginal reading; Heb 11:36; Jud 1:6; ἐν τοῖς δεσμοῖς τοῦ εὐαγγελίου, in the captivity into which the preaching of the gospel has thrown me, Phm 1:13 (Winer's Grammar, 189 (178); cf. reference under the word δέσμιος, at the end).