H3608 כֶּלֶא
keleʼ — a prison
KJV: prison. Compare H3610 (כִּלְאַיִם), H3628 (כְּלִיא).
Derived from כָּלָא kâlâʼ (to restrict, by act)
Occurs 10 times. Every verse with this word
Brown–Driver–Briggs
- כֶּ֫לֶא n.[m.] confinement, restraint, imprisonment;—abs. כ׳ 1 K 22:27 + 6 t.; sf. כִּלְאוֹ 2 K 25:29 Je 52:33; pl. כְלָאִים Is 42:22;—confinement, in combin. בֵּית (ה)כ׳ (cf. As., prison, DI HWB 328) 1 K 22:27 = 2 Ch 18:26, 2 K 17:4 Je 37:15, 18 Is 42:7; בָּֽתֵּי כְלָאִים v 22 (cf. בָּיִת 1 (ε) (2) p. 109 supr.; v. also כלוא infr.); בִּגְדֵי כִלְאוֹ 2 K 25:29 = Je 52:33 garments of imprisonment = prison garb.
Where it occurs
- 1 Kings 22:27 — Say, ‘The king says, “Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of…
- 2 Kings 17:4 — The king of Assyria discovered a conspiracy in Hoshea; for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and offered no…
- 2 Kings 25:27 — In the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh…
- 2 Kings 25:29 — and changed his prison garments. Jehoiachin ate bread before him continually all the days of his life;
- Isaiah 42:7 — to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.
- Isaiah 42:22 — But this is a robbed and plundered people. All of them are snared in holes, and they are hidden in prisons. They have…
- Jeremiah 37:15 — The princes were angry with Jeremiah, and struck him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe; for…
- Jeremiah 37:18 — Moreover Jeremiah said to King Zedekiah, “How have I sinned against you, against your servants, or against this people…
- Jeremiah 52:33 — and changed his prison garments. Jehoiachin ate bread before him continually all the days of his life.
- 2 Chronicles 18:26 — and say, ‘The king says, “Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of…