Mark 5:4
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For having been often bound with fetters and chains, he had burst the chains, and broken the fetters in pieces, and no one could tame him.

tame.

James 3:7,8 For every nature of beasts and of birds and of serpents and of the rest is tamed and hath been tamed, by the nature of man. . . .

Context
The Demons and the Pigs
3Who had his dwelling in the tombs, and no man now could bind him, not even with chains. 4For having been often bound with fetters and chains, he had burst the chains, and broken the fetters in pieces, and no one could tame him. 5And he was always day and night in the monuments and in the mountains, crying and cutting himself with stones.…
Cross References
Psalm 105:18
They humbled his feet in fetters: the iron pierced his soul,

Mark 5:3
Who had his dwelling in the tombs, and no man now could bind him, not even with chains.

Mark 5:5
And he was always day and night in the monuments and in the mountains, crying and cutting himself with stones.

Luke 8:29
For he commanded the unclean spirit to go out of the man. For many times it seized him: and he was bound with chains and kept in fetters: and breaking the bonds, he was driven by the devil into the deserts.

Lexicon
[Though]
διὰ (dia)
Preposition
Strong's Greek 1223: A primary preposition denoting the channel of an act; through.

he
αὐτὸν (auton)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative Masculine 3rd Person Singular
Strong's Greek 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

{was} often
πολλάκις (pollakis)
Adverb
Strong's Greek 4178: Many times, often, frequently. Multiplicative adverb from polus; many times, i.e. Frequently.

bound
δεδέσθαι (dedesthai)
Verb - Perfect Infinitive Middle or Passive
Strong's Greek 1210: To bind, tie, fasten; I impel, compel; I declare to be prohibited and unlawful. A primary verb; to bind.

with chains
ἁλύσεσιν (halysesin)
Noun - Dative Feminine Plural
Strong's Greek 254: A (light) chain, bond. Of uncertain derivation; a fetter or manacle.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's Greek 2532: And, even, also, namely.

shackles,
πέδαις (pedais)
Noun - Dative Feminine Plural
Strong's Greek 3976: A shackle, fetter for the feet. Ultimately from pous; a shackle for the feet.

he had broken
διεσπάσθαι (diespasthai)
Verb - Perfect Infinitive Middle or Passive
Strong's Greek 1288: To tear apart, burst. From dia and spao; to draw apart, i.e. Sever or dismember.

the
τὰς (tas)
Article - Accusative Feminine Plural
Strong's Greek 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

chains
ἁλύσεις (halyseis)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Plural
Strong's Greek 254: A (light) chain, bond. Of uncertain derivation; a fetter or manacle.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's Greek 2532: And, even, also, namely.

shattered
συντετρῖφθαι (syntetriphthai)
Verb - Perfect Infinitive Middle or Passive
Strong's Greek 4937: From sun and the base of tribos; to crush completely, i.e. To shatter.

the
τὰς (tas)
Article - Accusative Feminine Plural
Strong's Greek 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

shackles.
πέδας (pedas)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Plural
Strong's Greek 3976: A shackle, fetter for the feet. Ultimately from pous; a shackle for the feet.

Now
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's Greek 2532: And, even, also, namely.

no one
οὐδεὶς (oudeis)
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's Greek 3762: No one, none, nothing.

had the strength
ἴσχυεν (ischyen)
Verb - Imperfect Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's Greek 2480: To have strength, be strong, be in full health and vigor, be able; meton: I prevail. From ischus; to have force.

to subdue
δαμάσαι (damasai)
Verb - Aorist Infinitive Active
Strong's Greek 1150: To tame, subdue, involving obedience and restraint. A variation of an obsolete primary of the same meaning; to tame.

him.
αὐτὸν (auton)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative Masculine 3rd Person Singular
Strong's Greek 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.


Additional Translations
Though he was often bound with chains and shackles, he had broken the chains and shattered the shackles. Now there was no one with the strength to subdue him.

because he often had been bound with shackles and chains, and the chains had been torn in two by him, and the shackles had been shattered, and no one was able to subdue him.

Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him.

because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been rent asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: and no man had strength to tame him.

because he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been torn asunder by him, and the fetters were shattered; and no one was able to subdue him.

because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been rent asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: and no man had strength to tame him.

For he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him.

for many a time he had been left securely bound in fetters and chains, but afterwards the chains lay torn link from link, and the fetters in fragments, and there was no one strong enough to master him.

because he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been torn apart by him, and the fetters broken in pieces. Nobody had the strength to tame him.

because that he many times with fetters and chains had been bound, and pulled in pieces by him had been the chains, and the fetters broken in pieces, and none was able to tame him,
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