Items normally used in domestic and military situations, but also used in Scripture in a symbolic sense to refer to bondage or constraint.

Exodus 28:28,37

Various uses for rope and cord

Numbers 15:38

In clothes and furnishing

1 Kings 20:31
Esther 1:6
Ezekiel 27:24
Exodus 35:18; 39:40
Numbers 3:37; 4:32

For tents

Isaiah 54:2
Acts 27:17,32,40

In sailing

2 Samuel 17:13

In military use

Psalms 7:12; 11:2
Jeremiah 51:3

Stringing the bow is a symbolic expression which also reflects actual practice:

Joshua 2:15
1 Samuel 19:12

For rescue and escape

Jeremiah 38:6,13
Acts 9:25
2 Corinthians 11:33
Job 39:5; 41:1-2
Psalms 32:9

To restrain animals

Matthew 21:2

pp Mk 11:2

Judges 15:13-14

pp Lk 19:30

Ezekiel 3:25; 4:8

To restrain people

Matthew 14:3

pp Mk 6:17

Proverbs 5:22

Rope and cord as symbols of bondage

See also

Of evil

Psalms 129:4; 140:5
Isaiah 5:18; 58:6
Romans 7:6
Luke 13:16

See also

Of suffering

Job 16:8; 36:8
Psalms 119:61
Daniel 3:21
Matthew 14:3
Mark 15:1
John 18:12,24

pp Mk 6:17

Psalms 18:4-5

Of death

See also

Psalms 116:3

pp 2Sa 22:6

Hosea 11:4

Rope and cord as symbols of spiritual and emotional ties

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Symbols of loving relationships

Ecclesiastes 4:12
Jeremiah 10:20
Romans 7:2
Proverbs 7:2-3

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Symbols of obedience

Deuteronomy 6:8; 11:18
Proverbs 3:3; 6:20-21
Ecclesiastes 12:6

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Symbols of life

Psalms 16:6

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5237 breastplate
5252 chariots
5344 imprisonment
5518 seal
5579 tetrarch
5690 friends
5934 restraint
6658 freedom
6720 redemption
7257 promised land
7921 fellowship
8790 oppression