{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H3608",
  "lemma": "כֶּלֶא",
  "transliteration": "keleʼ",
  "definition": "a prison",
  "kjv": "prison. Compare H3610 (כִּלְאַיִם), H3628 (כְּלִיא).",
  "occurrences": 10,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "builtFrom": [
    {
      "id": "H3607",
      "lemma": "כָּלָא",
      "transliteration": "kâlâʼ",
      "meaning": "to restrict, by act",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/word/H3607"
    }
  ],
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "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."
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "1 Kings 22:27",
      "text": "Say, ‘The king says, “Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/22?v=27"
    },
    {
      "reference": "2 Kings 17:4",
      "text": "The king of Assyria discovered a conspiracy in Hoshea; for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and offered no…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/17?v=4"
    },
    {
      "reference": "2 Kings 25:27",
      "text": "In the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/25?v=27"
    },
    {
      "reference": "2 Kings 25:29",
      "text": "and changed his prison garments. Jehoiachin ate bread before him continually all the days of his life;",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/25?v=29"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Isaiah 42:7",
      "text": "to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/42?v=7"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Isaiah 42:22",
      "text": "But this is a robbed and plundered people. All of them are snared in holes, and they are hidden in prisons. They have…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/42?v=22"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Jeremiah 37:15",
      "text": "The princes were angry with Jeremiah, and struck him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe; for…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/37?v=15"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Jeremiah 37:18",
      "text": "Moreover Jeremiah said to King Zedekiah, “How have I sinned against you, against your servants, or against this people…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/37?v=18"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Jeremiah 52:33",
      "text": "and changed his prison garments. Jehoiachin ate bread before him continually all the days of his life.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/52?v=33"
    },
    {
      "reference": "2 Chronicles 18:26",
      "text": "and say, ‘The king says, “Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-chronicles/18?v=26"
    }
  ],
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