H3608 - כֶּלֶא (keleʼ)

H3608 כֶּלֶא (keleʼ) keh'-leh

Hebrew

Noun (Masculine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

prison

Strong's Definition

a prison

Derivation: from H3607 (כָּלָא);

KJV Usage: prison. Compare H3610 (כִּלְאַיִם), H3628 (כְּלִיא).

TWOT Reference: 980a

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) imprisonment, confinement, restraint

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G5438

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

imprisonment, confinement, restraint

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

כֶּלֶא kele BDB Definition: 1) imprisonment, confinement, restraint Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from H3607 Same Word by TWOT Number: 980a Total KJV Occurrences: 12

Bible Occurrences (10)

22:27

17:4 25:27 25:29

18:26

42:7 42:22

37:15 37:18 52:33

1 Kings 22:27

and tell them that this is what the king says: Put this [man] in prison... and feed him only bread... and water... until I return safely.

2 Kings 17:4

But the king of Assyria discovered that Hoshea had conspired to send envoys to King So of Egypt, and that he had not paid tribute to the king of Assyria as in previous years.... Therefore the king of Assyria arrested [Hoshea] and put him... in prison.

2 Kings 25:27

On the twenty-seventh [day]...... of the twelfth... month of the thirty-seventh... year of the exile of Judah’s King Jehoiachin, in the year Evil-merodach became king... of Babylon, he released... King Jehoiachin of Judah from prison.

2 Kings 25:29

So Jehoiachin changed out of his prison clothes, and he dined... regularly at the king’s table for the rest... of his life.

2 Chronicles 18:26

and tell them that this is what the king says: Put this [man] in prison... and feed him only bread... and water... until I return safely.

Isaiah 42:7

to open the eyes of the blind, to bring prisoners out of the dungeon and those sitting in darkness out from the prison house.

Isaiah 42:22

But this is a people plundered and looted, all trapped in caves or imprisoned in dungeons.... They have become plunder with no one to rescue them, and loot with no one to say, Send them back!

Jeremiah 37:15

The officials were angry with Jeremiah, and they beat him and placed him in jail... in the house of Jonathan the scribe, for it had been made into a prison....