כֶּלֶא

ke.le

prison

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Strong’s H3608Noun, masculine10 times in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

imprisonment10

In the text

1 Kings 22:27הַכֶּלֶא
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 17:4כֶּלֶא
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 Chronicles 18:26הַכֶּלֶא
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 42:7כֶּלֶא
to open the eyes of the blind, to bring prisoners out of the dungeon and those sitting in darkness out from the prison house.
Jeremiah 37:15הַכֶּלֶא
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.

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. bit kili, 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.

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.