Prison
כְּלִיאStrong’s H3628keli (ke-li)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Keli is the Hebrew word usually translated “imprisonment”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people: for they had not put him into prison.”
Meaning
- Imprisonment
How it's translated
- imprisonment 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 2
1 book in all.
Hebrew dictionary
כְּלִיא keli · prison
imprisonment
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.