Mark 6:17
King James Version
11 Jun 2026
“For Herod himself had sent forth and laid hold upon John, and bound him in prison for Herodias’ sake, his brother Philip’s wife: for he had married her.”
φυλακή
a guarding or (concretely, guard), the act, the person; figuratively, the place, the condition, or (specially), the time (as a division of day or night), literally or figuratively
κρατέω
he seized
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κρατέω
To hold fast, to keep a grip on. Hold fast to what is good. In a world of shifting values grip tightly to what God says is true and right.
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διά
on account of
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διά
through (in very wide applications, local, causal, or occasional)
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δέω
bound
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δέω
to bind (in various applications, literally or figuratively)
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Φίλιππος
of Philip
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Φίλιππος
fond of horses; Philippus, the name of four Israelites
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Ἰωάννης
John
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Ἰωάννης
Joannes (i.e. Jochanan), the name of four Israelites
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Ἡρώδης
Herod
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Ἡρώδης
heroic; Herod, the name of four Jewish kings
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Ἡρωδιάς
Herodias
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Ἡρωδιάς
Herodias, a woman of the Heodian family
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γυνή
wife
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γυνή
a woman; specially, a wife
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γαμέω
he had married;
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γαμέω
to wed (of either sex)
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