enochos describes a person held answerable for an offense or bound under a stated consequence.

The term most often marks a person as answerable under judgment or condemnation because of an act, utterance, or failure, including murder, anger, blasphemy, an unworthy act, and stumbling at one point of the law. In Hebrews 2:15, its plural form occurs in the description of people held in slavery through fear of death.

1. Answerable to judgment or condemnation · dominant

   The nominative masculine form identifies persons under a stated consequence: murder is connected with judgment in Matthew 5:21, while anger and insulting speech are connected with judgment, the council, and Gehenna in Matthew 5:22. The same use appears where a person is judged for an unworthy act involving the Lord's bread and cup in 1 Corinthians 11:27, for stumbling in one point of the law in James 2:10, and where condemnation to death follows an accusation in Mark 14:64 and Matthew 26:66. In Mark 3:29, the clause places the person who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit under an eternal sin.

   Matthew 5:21Matthew 5:221 Corinthians 11:27James 2:10Mark 14:64Matthew 26:66
2. Held under slavery · rare

   In Hebrews 2:15, the nominative plural masculine form describes those whom fear of death had kept in slavery throughout their lives. The APB renders the clause "were held in slavery," showing a condition of being under that bondage.

   Hebrews 2:15

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB variously presents the clauses with "liable," "guilty," "deserving death," and "held in slavery." These are presentations of the surrounding clauses rather than fixed English equivalents.