Word Summary
brochos: a noose, halter
Original Word: βρόχοςTransliteration: brochos
Phonetic Spelling: (brokh'-os)
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Short Definition: a noose, halter
Meaning: a noose, halter
Strong's Concordance
snare, noose
Of uncertain derivation; a noose -- snare.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1029: βρόχοςβρόχος,
βροχου,
ὁ,
a noose, slip-knot, by which any person or thing is caught, or fastened, or suspended (from
Homer down):
βρόχον ἐπιβάλλειν τίνι to throw a noose upon one, a figurative expression borrowed from war (or the chase) (so
βρόχος περιβάλλειν τίνι,
Philo, vit. Moys. iii. § 34;
Josephus,
b. j. 7, 7, 4), i. e. by craft or by force to bind one to some necessity, to constrain him to obey some command,
1 Corinthians 7:35.