Loose and Bind

Job 38:31 NASB95

31 “Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades, Or loose the cords of Orion?

Pleiades As highly visible heliacal stars, the Pleiades were among the most important celestial body, after the moon, and used for a first astronomic conception. The Pleiades heliacal rising was widely recognised in Austral regions, as the beginning of the new-year and then of agricultural season.

Matthew 16:19 NASB95

19 “I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and whatever you bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall have been loosed in heaven.”

Matthew 18:18 NASB95

18 “Truly I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth shall have been loosed in heaven.

John 20:23 NASB95

23 “If you forgive the sins of any, their sins have been forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they have been retained.”

Job 9:9 NASB95

9 Who makes the Bear, Orion and the Pleiades, And the chambers of the south;

Romans 6:17–18 NASB95

17 But thanks be to God that though you were slaves of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were committed, 18 and having been freed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.

Bind

Enhanced Strong’s Lexicon 1210 δέω

1210 δέω [deo /deh·o/] v. A root; TDNT 2:60; TDNTA 148; GK 1313; 44 occurrences; AV translates as “bind” 37 times, “tie” four times, “knit” once, “be in bonds” once, and “wind” once. 1 to bind tie, fasten. 1A to bind, fasten with chains, to throw into chains. 1B metaph. 1B1 Satan is said to bind a woman bent together by means of a demon, as his messenger, taking possession of the woman and preventing her from standing upright. 1B2 to bind, put under obligation, of the law, duty etc. 1B2A to be bound to one, a wife, a husband. 1B3 to forbid, prohibit, declare to be illicit.

Loose

Enhanced Strong’s Lexicon 3089 λύω

3089 λύω [luo /loo·o/] v. A root word; TDNT 2:60; GK 3395; 43 occurrences; AV translates as “loose” 27 times, “break” five times, “unloose” three times, “destroy” twice, “dissolve” twice, “put off” once, “melt” once, “break up” once, and “break down” once. 1 to loose any person (or thing) tied or fastened. 1A bandages of the feet, the shoes,. 1B of a husband and wife joined together by the bond of matrimony. 1C of a single man, whether he has already had a wife or has not yet married. 2 to loose one bound, i.e. to unbind, release from bonds, set free. 2A of one bound up (swathed in bandages). 2B bound with chains (a prisoner), discharge from prison, let go. 3 to loosen, undo, dissolve, anything bound, tied, or compacted together. 3A an assembly, i.e. to dismiss, break up. 3B laws, as having a binding force, are likened to bonds. 3C to annul, subvert. 3D to do away with, to deprive of authority, whether by precept or act. 3E to declare unlawful. 3F to loose what is compacted or built together, to break up, demolish, destroy. 3G to dissolve something coherent into parts, to destroy. 3H metaph., to overthrow, to do away with.