Strong's Concordance
Original word: ἅλυσις
Transliteration: halusis
Definition (short): chains
Definition (full): a chain
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin: of uncertain origin
Definition: a chain
NASB Translation: chain (3), chains (8).
NAS Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible with Hebrew-Aramaic and Greek Dictionaries.
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
Of uncertain derivation; a fetter or manacle -- bonds, chain.
References
KJV:
Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains:
NASB:
and he had his dwelling among the tombs. And no one was able to bind him anymore, even with a chain;
KJV:
Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him.
NASB:
because he had often been bound with shackles and chains, and the chains had been torn apart by him and the shackles broken in pieces, and no one was strong enough to subdue him.
KJV:
(For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For oftentimes it had caught him: and he was kept bound with chains and in fetters; and he brake the bands, and was driven of the devil into the wilderness.)
NASB:
For He had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For it had seized him many times; and he was bound with chains and shackles and kept under guard, and yet he would break his bonds and be driven by the demon into the desert.
KJV:
And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the keepers before the door kept the prison.
NASB:
On the very night when Herod was about to bring him forward, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and guards in front of the door were watching over the prison.