^5:4For his hands and feet had often been bound with chains and shackles,⁶ but⁷ he had torn the chains apart and broken the shackles in pieces. No one was strong enough to subdue him.

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Footnotes

6 Grk “he had often been bound with chains and shackles.” “Shackles” could also be translated “fetters”; they were chains for the feet.
7 Grk “and.” Here καί (kai) has been translated as “but” to indicate the contrast present in this context.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

for he had often been bound with shackles and chains, but he wrenched the chains apart, and he broke the shackles in pieces. No one had the strength to subdue him.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

For he had often been chained hand and foot, but he tore the chains apart and broke the irons on his feet. No one was strong enough to subdue him.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

because he often had been bound with shackles and chains, but had torn the chains apart and smashed the shackles. No one was strong enough to subdue him.

NLTNew Living Translation

Whenever he was put into chains and shackles—as he often was—he snapped the chains from his wrists and smashed the shackles. No one was strong enough to subdue him.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

because he had often been bound with shackles and chains, and the chains had been torn apart by him, and the shackles had been shattered. And no one was strong enough to subdue him.

KJV 1900King James Version

Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him.

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