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ke.le H3608

כֶּ֫לֶא (ke.le) means “prison” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

כֶּ֫לֶא Hebrew · H3608 10 tagged occurrences in 10 verses

Pronunciation guide: keh'-leh Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H3608

כֶּ֫לֶא · ke.le · prison

imprisonment, confinement, restraint

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

from H3607 (כָּלָא); a prison

KJV glosses: prison. Compare H3610 (כִּלְאַיִם), H3628 (כְּלִיא).

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How translators render H3608

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering Count
out of his prison 2
in prison 1
out from the prison 1
prison 1
KJV rendering counts
Rendering Count
his prison 2
in the prison 2
him in prison 1
in prison 1
me in prison 1
out of prison 1
out of the prison 1
that the prison 1

Verses containing H3608

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  1. 1 Kings 22:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.’”

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  2. 2 Kings 17:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  3. 2 Kings 25:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    On the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Judah’s King Jehoiachin, in the year Evil-merodach became king of Babylon, he released King Jehoiachin of Judah from prison.

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  4. 2 Kings 25:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence

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

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  5. 2 Chronicles 18:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.’”

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  6. Isaiah 42:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    to open the eyes of the blind, to bring prisoners out of the dungeon and those sitting in darkness out from the prison house.

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  7. Isaiah 42:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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!”

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  8. Jeremiah 37:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  9. Jeremiah 37:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence

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

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  10. Jeremiah 52:33 · BSB · 1 occurrence

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

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Sources and text

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