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H3608 כֶּלֶא (keleʼ) keh'-leh
Hebrew
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Strong's Definition

from 3607; a prison

KJV Usage: prison. Compare 3610, 3628

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

כֶּ֫לֶא (ke.le) — prison. imprisonment, confinement, restraint

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

noun m · כלא

Prisons | ≈ מַּסְגֵּר

Collocation: בֵּית כֶּלֶא

prison = place where criminals or other prisoners were confined

1KI 22:27 · 2KI 17:4 · 2KI 25:27 · 2KI 25:29 · 2CH 18:26 · ISA 42:7 · ISA 42:22 · JER 37:15 · JER 37:18 · JER 52:33

Enio R. Mueller

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

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. done

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