STRONGS G1029:
βρόχος,
-ου,
ὁ,
a noose, slip-knot, by which any person or thing is caught, or fastened, or suspended, (from Homer down):
βρόχον ἐπιβάλλειν τινί to throw a noose upon one, a figurative expression borrowed from war [or the chase] (so
βρ.
περιβάλλειν τινί, 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.
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