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of perfectness,” Col. 3:14 (figurative of the ligaments of the body); elsewhere; Col. 2:19,
“bands,” figuratively of the bands which unite the church, the body of Christ. See
BAND
.¶
4.
$
(
?
, 254) denotes “a chain”; so the
RV
in Eph. 6:20, for
KJV
“bonds.”
See
CHAIN
.
5.
(
$1
, 1121), in Luke 16:6,
RV
, means “a bill or note of hand.” See
BILL
, No. 2.
6.
(
$ $
, 5498), “a handwriting,” is rendered “bond” in Col.
2:14,
RV
.
BONDAGE
A. Noun.
$
(
&
, 1397), akin to
, “to bind,” primarily “the condition of being a
slave,” came to denote any kind of bondage, as, e.g., of the condition of creation, Rom.
8:21; of that fallen condition of man himself which makes him dread God, v. 15, and fear
death, Heb. 2:15; of the condition imposed by the Mosaic Law, Gal. 4:24. See
SERVE
.
B. Verbs.
1.
$ $
(
"
, 1398), “to serve as a slave, to be a slave, to be in bondage,” is
frequently used without any association of slavery, e.g., Acts 20:19; Rom. 6:6; 7:6;
12:11; Gal. 5:13. See
SERVE
.
2.
$
(
, 1402), different from No. 1, in being transitive instead of
intransitive, signifies “to make a slave of, to bring into bondage,” Acts 7:6; 1 Cor. 9:19,
RV
; in the passive voice, “to be brought under bondage,” 2 Pet. 2:19; “to be held in
bondage,” Gal. 4:3 (lit., “were reduced to bondage”); Titus 2:3, “of being enslaved to
wine”; Rom. 6:18, “of service to righteousness” (lit., “were made bondservants”). As
with the purchased slave there were no limitations either in the kind or the time of
service, so the life of the believer is to be lived in continuous obedience to God. See
ENSLAVED
,
GIVE
,
SERVANT
.
3.
$
(
!
, 1396), “to bring into bondage” (from A, above, and
, “to bring”), is used in 1 Cor. 9:27, concerning the body,
RV
, “bondage,” for
KJV
,
“subjection.”¶
4.
$
(
, 2615), “to bring into bondage,” occurs in 2 Cor. 11:20;
Gal. 2:4.¶
BONDMAN, BONDMAID
$
(
, 1401), from
, “to bind,” “a slave,” originally the lowest term in
the scale of servitude, came also to mean “one who gives himself up to the will of
another,” e.g., 1 Cor. 7:23; Rom. 6:17, 20, and became the most common and general
word for “servant,” as in Matt. 8:9, without any idea of bondage. In calling himself,
however, a “bondslave of Jesus Christ,” e.g., Rom. 1:1, the apostle Paul intimates (1) that
he had been formerly a “bondslave” of Satan, and (2) that, having been bought by Christ,
he was now a willing slave, bound to his new Master. See
SERVANT
.
The feminine,
$
, signifies “a handmaid,” Luke 1:38, 48; Acts 2:18.¶