אַסִּיר (ʾassîr) is a Hebrew noun meaning prisoners. It appears 4 times in 2 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H616).

Also rendered

• prisoner

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 141c)

Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

אַסִּיר noun, masculine: prisoners

mostly collective prisoners

Strong's H616 אַסִּיר
KJV:prisoner.

Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.

Root family 141: אָסַר ʾāsar — tie, bind, imprison; harness, gird, begin the battle, make the attack; be bound; be taken prisoner; yoke, hitch, fasten, join; fast, hold, keep, make ready, order, prepare, prison, prisoner, put in bonds, set in array

• אָסַר ʾāsar — tie
• אָסִיר ʾāsîr — bondman
• מוֹסֵר môsēr — band
• אִסָּר ʾissār — bond
• אֵסוּר ʾēsûr — band
• מָסֹרֶת māsōret — bond of the covenant

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