HebrewH3608Noun (Masculine)

כֶּ֫לֶא

ke.le

10Occurrences
H3608Strong's #
Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

a prison

from H3607 (כָּלָא);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
imprisonment, confinement, restraint

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

H:N-M

Full Description

H:N-M

Occurrences

כֶּ֫לֶא appears 10 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

2 Kings
3
Jeremiah
3
Isaiah
2
1 Kings
1
2 Chronicles
1

Key Passages

1 Kings 22:27BSB

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 17:4BSB

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 25:29BSB

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

Isaiah 42:22BSB

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 37:18BSB

Then Jeremiah asked King Zedekiah, “How have I sinned against you or your servants or these people, that you have put me in prison?

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.