δεσμώτηςdesmṓtēs
GreekG12022 occurrences (KJV)
(passively) a captive
KJV renders it: prisoner
Where it appears
- Acts 27:1When it was determined that we should sail for Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners to a centurion named Julius, of the Augustan band.
- Acts 27:42The soldiers’ counsel was to kill the prisoners, so that none of them would swim out and escape.
Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.