אָסַר (ʾāsar) is
a Hebrew verb
meaning tie. It appears
73 times
in 18 books of the Hebrew Bible
(Strong's H631).
Also rendered
to bind
Same Hebrew root (TWOT 141)
Range of meaning (TWOT 141)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
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's
אָסַרverb: 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.figuratively of obligation of oath or vow
Niphalbe bound, imprisoned
Pualbe taken prisoner
Strong's H631אָסַר: 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 bonds, set in array, tie.
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.