כֶּלֶא kele

Hebrew word for “prison” · Strong’s H3608 · used 10 times in 10 verses

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Meaning

imprisonment, confinement, restraint

How it is translated

Glosses given for kele in context, with how often each is used:

• imprisonment 9
• imprisonments 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

2 Kings 25 (2), Isaiah 42 (2), Jeremiah 37 (2), 1 Kings 22 (1), 2 Kings 17 (1), 2 Chronicles 18 (1), Jeremiah 52 (1)

Forms

• הכלא 4
• כלא 3
• כלאו 2
• כלאים 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with kele more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• לֶחֶם lechem “food” 4
• לַחַץ lachats “oppression” 2
• אָכַל akhal “to eat” 4
• תָּמִיד tamid “continually” 2
• יִרְמְיָהוּ yirmeyah “Jeremiah” 2
• בֶּגֶד beged “garment” 2
• שָׁלוֹם shalom “peace” 2
• זֶה zeh “this” 3
• חַי chay “alive” 2
• מַי mayim “water” 2
• כֹּה koh “thus” 2
• שׂוּם sum “to set” 2

Key verses

The verses using kele that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• 1 Kings 22:27 — And say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.
• 2 Kings 17:4 — And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea: for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and brought no present to the king of Assyria, as he had…
• 2 Kings 25:27 — And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the seven and twentieth day of the…
• 2 Kings 25:29 — And changed his prison garments: and he did eat bread continually before him all the days of his life.
• 2 Chronicles 18:26 — And say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I return in peace.
• Isaiah 42:7 — To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.
• Isaiah 42:22 — But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for…
• Jeremiah 37:15 — Wherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison.
• Jeremiah 37:18 — Moreover Jeremiah said unto king Zedekiah, What have I offended against thee, or against thy servants, or against this people, that ye have put me in prison?
• Jeremiah 52:33 — And changed his prison garments: and he did continually eat bread before him all the days of his life.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.