Desmios identifies a person held in custody, whether an individual detainee or prisoners collectively.

The term consistently identifies people in custody: a detainee subject to release or official proceedings, persons confined together, and those whom others are urged to remember. It also appears in clauses identifying Paul in relation to Christ Jesus or the Lord, without the supplied verses requiring a separate lexical sense.

1. Person held in custody · dominant

   The noun marks those under confinement or official custody: in Mark 15:6 the APB renders the festival custom of releasing "one prisoner," while Acts 25:27 concerns sending such a person with stated charges. In Acts 16:25 and Hebrews 13:3, plural forms refer respectively to prisoners listening to Paul and Silas and prisoners to be remembered as though bound with them. The same designation is used of Paul in Ephesians 3:1 and Philemon 1:9 within phrases relating him to Christ Jesus.

   Mark 15:6Acts 25:27Acts 16:25Hebrews 13:3Ephesians 3:1Philemon 1:9

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the supplied verses, the APB regularly presents the noun with "prisoner" or "prisoners," including people released at a festival, people in confinement, and Paul. In Hebrews 10:34 it instead renders the wider clause as compassion for "those in prison".