# H631 אָסַר

אָסַר (ʼâçar), Strong’s H631: to yoke or hitch; by analogy, to fasten in any sense, to join battle KJV: bind, fast, gird, harness, hold, keep, make ready, order, prepare, prison(-er), put in…. Occurs…

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*ʼâçar* — to yoke or hitch; by analogy, to fasten in any sense, to join battle

KJV: bind, fast, gird, harness, hold, keep, make ready, order, prepare, prison(-er), put in…

Occurs 71 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [אָסַר] vb. tie, bind, imprison
- Qal
- 1 tie, bind, for security
- 2 tie, harness
- 3 bind, with cords
- 4 gird (rare & late)
- 5 begin the battle, make the attack
- 6 fig. of obligation of oath or vow
- Niph. be bound, imprisoned
- Pu. be taken prisoner

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 39:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/39?v=20) — Joseph’s master took him, and put him into the prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were bound, and he was…
- [Genesis 40:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/40?v=3) — He put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.
- [Genesis 40:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/40?v=5) — They both dreamed a dream, each man his dream, in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the…
- [Genesis 42:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/42?v=16) — Send one of you, and let him get your brother, and you shall be bound, that your words may be tested, whether there is…
- [Genesis 42:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/42?v=19) — If you are honest men, then let one of your brothers be bound in your prison; but you go, carry grain for the famine of…
- [Genesis 42:24](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/42?v=24) — He turned himself away from them, and wept. Then he returned to them, and spoke to them, and took Simeon from among…
- [Genesis 46:29](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/46?v=29) — Joseph prepared his chariot, and went up to meet Israel, his father, in Goshen. He presented himself to him, and fell…
- [Genesis 49:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/49?v=11) — Binding his foal to the vine, his donkey’s colt to the choice vine, he has washed his garments in wine, his robes in…
- [Exodus 14:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/14?v=6) — He prepared his chariot, and took his army with him;
- [Numbers 30:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/30?v=3) — When a man vows a vow to the LORD, or swears an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word. He…