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Smith's Bible Dictionary

Bondage

[SLAVE]

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Of Israel in Egypt (Exodus 2:23, 25; 5), which is called the "house of bondage" (13:3; 20:2). This word is used also with reference to the captivity in Babylon (Isaiah 14:3), and the oppression of the Persian king (Ezra 9:8, 9).

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) The state of being bound; condition of being under restraint; restraint of personal liberty by compulsion; involuntary servitude; slavery; captivity.

2. (a.) Obligation; tie of duty.

3. (a.) Villenage; tenure of land on condition of doing the meanest services for the owner.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

BONDAGE

bon'-daj: Used in two senses in Scripture, a literal and a metaphorical sense.

(1) In the former sense it refers

(a) to the condition of the Hebrews ('abhodhah) in Egypt (Exodus 1:14 the King James Version; Exodus 2:23 and often) which is frequently called "the house of bondage" ("slaves," `abhadhim), Exodus 13:3, 14; Exodus 20:2 Deuteronomy 5:6 and often. It also refers to the condition of the Hebrews in Babylonia (Isaiah 14:3, the King James Version) and in Persia (Ezra 9:8 f), where a slightly different form of the same root (`abhedhuth) is used in the original. In both these cases the bondage was not so much personal as national. As a rule individuals were not subject to individuals, but the whole Hebrew people were subject to the Egyptian, Babylonian and the Persian states. They were forced to labor on public works, and otherwise, and were denied their own freedom when the exigencies of state seemed to demand it. The former word `abhodhah is also used in Nehemiah 5:18 as descriptive of the subject and depressed conditions of the Hebrews in Palestine during the earlier years after their return from captivity, when they were still living under Persian suzerainty.

(b) The word bondage (`abhadhim) is also used to describe the slavery into which the poor Jews were being forced by their more prosperous brethren in the earlier years under the Persians in Palestine (Nehemiah 5:5). Here true personal, though temporary, slavery is meant.

(c) Marriage is once referred to as a bondage (1 Corinthians 7:15) (verb douloo).

(2) It is used in the metaphorical sense only in New Testament. he douleia, "bondage," is the power of physical corruption as against the freedom of life (Romans 8:21), the power of fear as over against the confidence of Christian faith (Romans 8:15 Hebrews 2:15), and especially is it the bondage of the letter, of the elements, of a ceremonial and institutional salvation which must be scrupulously and painfully observed, as contrasted with the freedom of the sons of God, emancipated by faith in Jesus Christ. This bondage is a peculiarly Pauline idea since he was fighting for Christian freedom (Galatians 2:4; Galatians 4:3, 9, 24, 25; 5:1). In 2 Peter 2:19 the idea is essentially different. Libertinism, masquerading under the name of freedom, is branded as bondage, in contrast with the true freedom of righteous living.

See SLAVERY.

William Joseph McGlothlin

Greek

2615. katadouloo -- to enslave
... 2615 (from 2596 , " to a point," intensifying 1402 , "enslave, bring into bondage") --
properly, ; to impose abject bondage. ... bring into bondage. ...
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1397. douleia -- slavery
... slavery. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: douleia Phonetic Spelling:
(doo-li'-ah) Short Definition: slavery, bondage Definition: slavery, bondage ...
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1402. douloo -- to enslave, bring under subjection
... Word Origin from doulos Definition to enslave, bring under subjection NASB Word
Usage became slaves (1), enslaved (4), held in bondage (1), made a slave (1 ...
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1398. douleuo -- to be a slave, to serve
... Word Origin from doulos Definition to be a slave, to serve NASB Word Usage bondage
(1), enslaved (3), render service (1), serve (10), served (1), serves (1 ...
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1659. eleutheroo -- to make free, fig. to exempt (from liability)
... Cognate: 1659 -- properly, set free, release from bondage; (figuratively) to remove
the restrictions of sin (darkness) because delivered by God (growth). ...
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3083. lutron -- a ransom
... 3083 () is used in the NT of the ultimate "liberty-price" -- the which (ransoms)
believers, freeing them from all slavery (bondage) to sin. ...
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541. apaugasma -- radiance
... His eternal light breaks through all the darkness that keeps someone in spiritual
ignorance (bondage), ie every resistance exerted by sin. ...
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1201. desmoterion -- a prison
... prison. From a derivative of desmon (equivalent to desmeo); a place of bondage,
ie A dungeon -- prison. see GREEK desmon. see GREEK desmeo. ...
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4886. sundesmos -- that which binds together, ie a bond
... Word Origin from sundeo Definition that which binds together, ie a bond NASB Word
Usage bond (1), bond of unity (1), bondage (1), ligaments (1). bond. ...
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Strong's Hebrew

5659. abduth -- servitude, bondage
... 5658, 5659. abduth. 5660 . servitude, bondage. Transliteration: abduth
Phonetic Spelling: (ab-dooth') Short Definition: bondage. ...
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3533. kabash -- to subdue, bring into bondage
... 3532, 3533. kabash. 3534 . to subdue, bring into bondage. Transliteration:
kabash Phonetic Spelling: (kaw-bash') Short Definition: subdued. Word Origin a prim ...
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5647. abad -- to work, serve
... root Definition to work, serve NASB Word Usage become slaves (1), been slaves (1),
bondage (2), burdened (2), cultivate (7), cultivated (2), cultivates (1), do ...
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5650. ebed -- slave, servant
... Word Origin from abad Definition slave, servant NASB Word Usage attendants (1),
bondage (2), male (24), male servant (7), male servants (5), male slaves (1 ...
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5656. abodah -- labor, service
... Word Origin from abad Definition labor, service NASB Word Usage bondage (4),
construction (2), construction work (1), job (2), kind of service (2), labor (9 ...
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2670. chophshi -- free
... free, liberty. From chaphash; exempt (from bondage, tax or care) -- free, liberty.
see HEBREW chaphash. 2669, 2670. chophshi. 2671 . Strong's Numbers.
/hebrew/2670.htm - 6k

Library

'Never in Bondage'
... 'NEVER IN BONDAGE'. 'We... were never in bondage to any man: how gayest Thou, Ye
shall be made free!'"John 8:33. 'Never in bondage to any man'? ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture i/never in bondage.htm

Penitence the Deliverer from Bondage.
... Penitence The Deliverer from Bondage. VI. The Deliverer from Bondage.
7,7,7,7. O Durchbrecher aller Bande. [278]Gottfried Arnold.1697. ...
/.../penitence the deliverer from bondage.htm

The Spirit of Bondage and of Adoption.
... First Series Sermon 9 The Spirit of Bondage and of Adoption. "Ye have not
received the spirit of bondage again unto fear; but ye ...
/.../wesley/sermons on several occasions/sermon 9 the spirit of.htm

Bondage of Custom. February 4.
... Bondage of Custom. ... Strive all your life to free men from the bondage of custom and
self, the two great elements of the world that lieth in wickedness. MS. ...
/.../kingsley/daily thoughts /bondage of custom february 4.htm

Now He is in Bondage to a Sign who Uses...
... Book 3 Chapter 13. Now he is in bondage to a sign who uses? 13. Now he
is in bondage to a sign who uses, or pays homage to, any ...
/.../augustine/on christian doctrine in four books/chapter 13 now he is.htm

This Bondage, However, in the Case of the Jewish People...
... Book 3 Chapter 10. This bondage, however, in the case of the Jewish people?
10. This bondage, however, in the case of the Jewish ...
/.../on christian doctrine in four books/chapter 10 this bondage however.htm

Of Israel's Bondage in Egypt, their Deliverance, and their Passage ...
... Chapter 20."Of Israel's Bondage in Egypt, Their Deliverance, and Their Passage
Through the Red Sea. 34. "That people, then, having ...
/.../on the catechising of the uninstructed/chapter 20 of israels bondage in.htm

Who is in Bondage to Signs, and who Not.
... Book III. Chapter 9."Who is in Bondage to Signs, and Who Not. 13. Now he
is in bondage to a sign who uses, or pays homage to, any ...
/.../augustine/on christian doctrine in four books /chapter 9 who is in bondage.htm

Utility of the Bondage of the Jews.
... Book III. Chapter 6."Utility of the Bondage of the Jews. 10. This bondage,
however, in the case of the Jewish people, differed ...
/.../on christian doctrine in four books /chapter 6 utility of the bondage.htm

The Useless Bondage of the Gentiles.
... Book III. Chapter 7."The Useless Bondage of the Gentiles. And if ever any
of them endeavored to make it out that their idols were ...
/.../on christian doctrine in four books /chapter 7 the useless bondage of.htm

Thesaurus

Bondage (55 Occurrences)
... Of Israel in Egypt (Exodus 2:23, 25; 5), which is called the "house of bondage"
(13:3; 20:2). This word is used also with reference to the captivity in Babylon ...
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Captive (123 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary. 1. (n.) A prisoner taken by force or stratagem, esp.,
by an enemy, in war; one kept in bondage or in the power of another. ...
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Liberty (32 Occurrences)
... exemption from subjection to the will of another claiming ownership of the person
or services; freedom; -- opposed to slavery, serfdom, bondage, or subjection. ...
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Rudiments (5 Occurrences)
... In Galatians 4:3, 9 the King James Version Paul writes, "When we were children,
(we) were in bondage under the elements of the world"; "How turn ye again to ...
/r/rudiments.htm - 13k

Israelites (468 Occurrences)
... 2:23 And it came to pass in the course of those many days that the king of Egypt
died; and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they ...
/i/israelites.htm - 35k

Adoption (5 Occurrences)
... 1. In Galatians as Liberty: In Galatians, Paul emphasizes especially the liberty
enjoyed by those who live by faith, in contrast to the bondage under which men ...
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Yoke (79 Occurrences)
... These words in the Hebrew are both used figuratively of severe bondage, or affliction,
or subjection (Leviticus 26:13; 1 Kings 12:4; Isaiah 47:6; Lamentations 1 ...
/y/yoke.htm - 40k

Enslaved (18 Occurrences)
... Multi-Version Concordance Enslaved (18 Occurrences). John 8:33 They answered him,
"We are Abraham's seed, and have never been in bondage to anyone. ...
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Redeem (56 Occurrences)
... 4. (vt) To ransom, liberate, or rescue from captivity or bondage, or from any
obligation or liability to suffer or to be forfeited, by paying a price or ransom ...
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Moses (9295 Occurrences)
... Their lives were made bitter with hard bondage, and "all their service, wherein
they made them serve, was with rigour" (Exodus 1:13, 14). ...
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Resources

What is spiritual bondage? | GotQuestions.org

What was the meaning and purpose of the ten plagues of Egypt? | GotQuestions.org

How can we experience true freedom in Christ? | GotQuestions.org

Bondage: Dictionary and Thesaurus | Clyx.com

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Bondage (55 Occurrences)

Luke 13:16
Ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan had bound eighteen long years, be freed from this bondage on the Sabbath day?"
(WEB)

Luke 16:13
"No servant can be in bondage to two masters. For either he will hate one and love the other, or else he will cling fast to one and scorn the other. You cannot be bondservants both of God and of gold."
(WEY)

John 8:33
They answered him, "We are Abraham's seed, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How do you say,'You will be made free?' "
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS RSV)

Acts 7:6
And God spake on this wise, That his seed should sojourn in a strange land; and that they should bring them into bondage, and entreat them evil four hundred years.
(KJV ASV WBS)

Acts 7:7
'I will judge the nation to which they will be in bondage,' said God,'and after that will they come out, and serve me in this place.'
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS NAS)

Acts 8:23
For I see that you are in the gall of bitterness and in the bondage of iniquity."
(WEB WEY NAS)

Romans 6:6
knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.
(WEB ASV)

Romans 6:19
your human infirmity leads me to employ these familiar figures--and just as you once surrendered your faculties into bondage to Impurity and ever-increasing disregard of Law, so you must now surrender them into bondage to Righteousness ever advancing towards perfect holiness.
(WEY DBY)

Romans 7:6
But seeing that we have died to that which once held us in bondage, the Law has now no hold over us, so that we render a service which, instead of being old and formal, is new and spiritual.
(WEY)

Romans 7:14
For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.
(See NAS)

Romans 8:15
For you didn't receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, " Abba! Father!"
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT)

Romans 8:21
that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS RSV NIV)

1 Corinthians 7:15
Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.
(WEB KJV ASV WBS NAS)

1 Corinthians 9:19
For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.
(WEB ASV)

1 Corinthians 9:27
but I buffet my body, and bring it into bondage: lest by any means, after that I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.
(ASV)

2 Corinthians 11:20
For you bear with a man, if he brings you into bondage, if he devours you, if he takes you captive, if he exalts himself, if he strikes you on the face.
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT)

Galatians 2:4
This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage;
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Galatians 4:3
So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental principles of the world.
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS NAS)

Galatians 4:8
However at that time, not knowing God, you were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods.
(WEB ASV DBY RSV)

Galatians 4:9
But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS)

Galatians 4:24
These things contain an allegory, for these are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children to bondage, which is Hagar.
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS)

Galatians 4:25
For this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to the Jerusalem that exists now, for she is in bondage with her children.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS)

Galatians 5:1
Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don't be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS)

Hebrews 2:15
and might deliver all of them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)

2 Peter 2:19
promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.
(WEB KJV ASV WBS)

Genesis 47:19
Wherefore should we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be bondmen unto Pharaoh; and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land be not desolate.'
(See NIV)

Genesis 47:25
And they said: 'Thou hast saved our lives. Let us find favour in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's bondmen.'
(See NIV)

Exodus 1:14
And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigor.
(KJV WBS)

Exodus 2:23
It happened in the course of those many days, that the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

Exodus 6:5
Moreover I have heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage, and I have remembered my covenant.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS NAS RSV)

Exodus 6:6
Therefore tell the children of Israel,'I am Yahweh, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm, and with great judgments:
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS NAS RSV)

Exodus 6:9
Moses spoke so to the children of Israel, but they didn't listen to Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 13:3
Moses said to the people, "Remember this day, in which you came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand Yahweh brought you out from this place. No leavened bread shall be eaten.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)

Exodus 13:14
It shall be, when your son asks you in time to come, saying,'What is this?' that you shall tell him,'By strength of hand Yahweh brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)

Exodus 20:2
"I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)

Deuteronomy 5:6
"I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)

Deuteronomy 6:12
then beware lest you forget Yahweh, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)

Deuteronomy 7:8
but because Yahweh loves you, and because he would keep the oath which he swore to your fathers, has Yahweh brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
(WEB JPS ASV DBY RSV)

Deuteronomy 8:14
then your heart be lifted up, and you forget Yahweh your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)

Deuteronomy 13:5
That prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death, because he has spoken rebellion against Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to draw you aside out of the way which Yahweh your God commanded you to walk in. So you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)

Deuteronomy 13:10
You shall stone him to death with stones, because he has sought to draw you away from Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)

Deuteronomy 26:6
The Egyptians dealt ill with us, and afflicted us, and laid on us hard bondage:
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)

Joshua 24:17
for it is Yahweh our God who brought us and our fathers up out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and who did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way in which we went, and among all the peoples through the midst of whom we passed.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

Judges 6:8
that Yahweh sent a prophet to the children of Israel: and he said to them, "Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel,'I brought you up from Egypt, and brought you forth out of the house of bondage;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)

1 Samuel 2:27
A man of God came to Eli, and said to him, "Thus says Yahweh,'Did I reveal myself to the house of your father, when they were in Egypt in bondage to Pharaoh's house?
(WEB JPS ASV NAS)

Ezra 9:8
Now for a little moment grace has been shown from Yahweh our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Ezra 9:9
For we are bondservants; yet our God has not forsaken us in our bondage, but has extended loving kindness to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair its ruins, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Nehemiah 5:5
Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children as their children: and behold, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought into bondage already : neither is it in our power to help it; for other men have our fields and our vineyards.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS)

Nehemiah 5:18
Now that which was prepared for one day was one ox and six choice sheep; also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days store of all sorts of wine: yet for all this I didn't demand the bread of the governor, because the bondage was heavy on this people.
(WEB KJV ASV WBS)

Nehemiah 9:17
and refused to obey, neither were mindful of your wonders that you did among them, but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage. But you are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and didn't forsake them.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)

Isaiah 14:3
And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve,
(KJV DBY WBS YLT NIV)

Jeremiah 34:9
that every man should let his manservant, and every man his maidservant, being a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, go free; that none should make bondmen of them, even of a Jew his brother;
(See NAS NIV)

Jeremiah 34:10
and all the princes and all the people hearkened, that had entered into the covenant to let every one his man-servant, and every one his maid-servant, go free, and not to make bondmen of them any more; they hearkened, and let them go;
(See NAS NIV)

Jeremiah 34:13
Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, saying,
(WEB JPS ASV DBY NAS RSV)

Micah 6:4
For I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage. I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.
(WEB JPS ASV DBY RSV)

Subtopics

Bondage

Bondage in Persia

Bondage of Israelites in Egypt

Spiritual Bondage is to Sin

Spiritual Bondage is to the Devil

Spiritual Bondage is to the Fear of Death

Spiritual Bondage: Christ Delivers From

Spiritual Bondage: Deliverance From, Illustrated

Spiritual Bondage: Deliverance From, Promised

Spiritual Bondage: Saints are Delivered From

Spiritual Bondage: The Gospel, the Instrument of Deliverance From