Môwçêr — H4147

Definition

masculine noun

properly, chastisement, i.e. (by implication) a halter; figuratively, restraint

1. band, bond

Usually translated as

band, bond

Origin

also (in plural) feminine môwçêrâh; or môçᵉrâh; from H3256

• Derived from Yâçar (H3256)

Occurrences

Môwçêr occurs 11 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Job (1), Psalms (3), Isaiah (2), Jeremiah (4), Nahum (1)

• Job 39:5 — Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands (וּמֹסְר֥וֹת) of the wild ass?
• Psalms 2:3 — Let us break their bands asunder (מֽוֹסְרוֹתֵ֑ימוֹ), and cast away their cords from us.
• Psalms 107:14 — He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands (וּמוֹסְר֖וֹתֵיהֶ֣ם) in sunder.
• Psalms 116:16 — O LORD, truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds (לְמוֹסֵרָֽי).
• Isaiah 28:22 — Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands (מֽוֹסְרֵיכֶ֑ם) be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.
• Isaiah 52:2 — Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands (מוֹסְרֵ֣י) of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.
• Jeremiah 2:20 — For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands (מוֹסְרֹתַ֔יִךְ); and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot.
• Jeremiah 5:5 — I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of the LORD, and the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds (מוֹסֵרֽוֹת).
• Jeremiah 27:2 — Thus saith the LORD to me; Make thee bonds (מוֹסֵר֖וֹת) and yokes, and put them upon thy neck,
• Jeremiah 30:8 — For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds (וּמוֹסְרוֹתֶ֖יךָ), and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him:
• Nahum 1:13 — For now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds in sunder (וּמוֹסְרֹתַ֖יִךְ).