Meaning
an adjective, primarily denotes "binding, bound," then, as a noun, "the person bound, a captive, prisoner" (akin to deo, "to bind"), Mat 1:27-16, Mar 15:6, Act 16:25, Act 16:27, Act 23:18, Act 25:14, RV (AV, "in bonds"), Act 25:27, Act 1:28-17, Eph 3:1, Eph 4:1, 2Ti 1:8, Phm 1:1, Phm 1:9; in Heb 10:34, Heb 13:3, "in bonds." See BOND, No. 2.
Note: The prison at Jerusalem (Acts 5) was controlled by the priests and probably attached to the high priest's palace, or the Temple. Paul was imprisoned at Jerusalem in the fort Antonia, Act 23:10; at Caesarea, in Herod's Praetorium, Act 23:35; probably his final imprisonment in Rome was in the Tullianum dungeon.
<2,,1202, desmotes>
akin to No. 1, occurs in Act 27:1, Act 27:42.
<3,,4869, sunaichmalotos>
"a fellow prisoner," primarily "one of fellow captives in war" (from aichme, "a spear," and haliskomai, "to be taken"), is used by Paul of Andronicus and Junias, Rom 16:7; of Epaphras, Phm 1:23; of Aristarchus, Col 4:10, on which Lightfoot remarks that probably his relations with the Apostle in Rome excited suspicion and led to a temporary confinement, or that he voluntarily shared his captivity by living with him.
