Prison
כֶּ֫לֶאStrong’s H3608kele (ke-le)
Appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Kele is the Hebrew word usually translated “imprisonment” and “imprisonment his”. It appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament.
“And say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.”
Meaning
- Imprisonment, confinement, restraint
How it's translated
- imprisonment 8
- imprisonment his 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Kings 3
- Jeremiah 3
- Isaiah 2
- 1 Kings 1
- 2 Chronicles 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Kings 17:4And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea: for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and brought no present to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year: therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison.
- 2 Kings 25:27And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach king of Babylon in the year that he began to reign did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison;
- 2 Kings 25:29And changed his prison garments: and he did eat bread continually before him all the days of his life.
- 2 Chronicles 18:26And say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I return in peace.
- Isaiah 42:7To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.
- Isaiah 42:22But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.
Hebrew dictionary
כֶּ֫לֶא kele · prison
imprisonment, confinement, restraint
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “prison” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PRISON, noun
priz'n. [Latin prendo.]
- In a general sense, any place of confinement or involuntary restraint; but appropriately, a public building for the confinement or safe custody of debtors and criminals committed by process of law; a jail.
- Any place of confinement or restraint.
- In Scripture, a low, obscure, afflicted condition. Ecclesiastes 4:14
- The cave where David was confined. Psalms 142:7
All definitions and other forms of “prison”
- A state of spiritual bondage. Isaiah 42:7
PRIS'ON, verb transitive
To shut up in a prison; to confine; to restrain from liberty.
- To confine in any manner.
- To captivate; to enchain.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.